Australian checking in. for the second time this week I'm commenting that your US/Northern Hemisphere sun goes THE WRONG WAY for my internal navigation instincts...
The sun is currently about NNE as I write this.
The sun is currently about NNE as I write this.
However, the construction is easy to adapt to counterclockwise sun movement in the Southern hemisphere by flipping everything around: point the 12 (!) towards the sun and take half of the angle from the 12 to the hour hand. This angle points North.
Maybe because I've seen northern hemisphere sky for 40+ years, the southern hemisphere sky is much more interesting to me. Just seeing Large/Small Magellanic clouds and realizing those are the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. Seeing Alpha/Beta Centauri and knowing those are the closest stars to our Sol. Just kind of different cool
>Good luck finding the Big Dipper down under!