Navigating by the Stars with LURD

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hey it's mcsneer survival so i'm going to go over navigating by the stars using an alert technique stay tuned okay so learn what am i referring to learn is ell you are deep lured now lower just stands for left up writing down and that goes clockwise around the cardinal directions just like this just a cardinal we have north east south and west lu are deep matches l you are indeed

so this lured okay now each star and group of stars constellation in the sky okay say like say like the Big Dipper is constantly moving in the sky the reason why that is is because we're constantly rotating so it's actually happening is the stars aren't moving we are okay now the earth is always revolving to the east so we're always turning to the east so because of that the stars that look like you know the stars that look like they don't move at all well because we're moving

they look like they're moving okay so the stars really aren't moving but we are okay now it's important to understand the mechanics of how they're moving in what direction and why for this all to make sense okay but the easier easy explanation of not getting into the details just the memorization the rule is if you're staring out of star a single star or group of stars constellation

for a half-hour and you're looking at it and nothing else and you notice that it's moving on you say it starts moving up you know it was here now it's here well that happens and it's going to happen in one direction or another then you can match up what direction you're actually looking at on the planet incredible useful stuff okay so if it moves up on you Lu right you up you're facing east pretty simple stuff then moves to the right you're facing south the moves to the left you're facing north moves down you're facing west okay left north up East right South down West now the reason why that works is because we revolve around Polaris the Polaris basically is attached to our North Pole so what does that look like all right well we have PLAs does not move we have the planet these are axis okay and it's like there's a string from an axis attached to Polaris and all we're doing is it's like it's like Polaris is just swinging up somewhere yo-yo just being swung around Polaris and it makes a cone shape okay because as we revolve around say the Sun right here as we go around we're just attached to Polaris the whole time and it creates a cone effect so it's just like we're a yo-yo or rocking a string whatever you want to think of it as and is a string attached supplier that's the hand so this is the this is the constant and the earth is the variable so Polaris just subtly swings us as if we're on a string all the way around so it constantly attached to it and facing it at all times okay now because of that Polaris doesn't move in the sky because it's right on our our line of revolving okay because this is our axis and we revolve always east on our axis so here we are spinning constantly attached to Polaris well the North is stuck to Polaris while everything else spins so it seems like Polaris isn't moving now technically the earth does have a wobble so our North Star changes over thousands of years sometimes it's in the middle there isn't even a star you know but basically right now we're attached to Polaris so pretty simple makes a cone shape we're swinging around and as we revolve because it's on our line of revolving Polaris seems to stand still while all those stars move around it and that's one of the keys to learn okay it makes a big pinwheel so let's do that now so we have plows right in the middle and all the other stars all around it I'm moving rotating always counterclockwise just like that because we're right here and we're turning so as we turn always eastward everything else behind appears to move the opposite direction okay

appears to move the opposite direction because we're going away from it it's not actually moving only we are see how that works

like I'm lined up here and as I rotate it appears they're going the opposite direction okay so this is how it works we have a pinwheel with Polaris right in the center now this is literally lured this is what lured is period super simple because if I'm looking north right I'm looking north I'm looking in this direction right towards Polaris looking this direction all the stars to the north of Polaris in a Polaris all up here they're all going this direction that's left if I'm looking again we're attached to you right here I found looking to the east of Polaris in our planet for all the stars of going in this direction that's up thumb right here looking down or south they're all hitting this direction aren't they that's to my right this is awkward last one is deep because they're heading down around the pinwheel so this L owe you our D now obviously nothing is pure okay you have

agonal stew so if you're looking at a corn and a star or constellation moves in this direction alright oh well that's a little left and a little up lq plots north east see you're looking north east if it moves left and up okay we're for looking at a star and it moves down into your right so you're looking at a star it's right here look at it for half hour now it's down here well it moved down it had to go down and had to go to the right to get down there well then you clearly looking south west because I corresponds with D and are downright Southwest all right so here's the nuts and bolts of wilerd works okay it's just a pinwheel off of Polaris now I'm going to show you one other way you can visualize this in the real world okay so again the planet is revolving okay so let's say towards you is north right so behind me itself to my right it's east my left is west now say I'm looking at a star and it's right right in front of me I don't know what direction that is okay so I'm watching this star now remember I'm standing on the planet looking north and a planet always revolves to the east right and it's a circle so it has curves right so here I am standing and I'm doing this I don't realize it but I'm doing this as I go around the planet okay so here's my star right here and now I'm going to revolve and realize that it's standing it's standing right here and I'm heading this direction well it looks like it's going to my left come right here and as I start moving its going this way Wow crazy it could be all the stars they're all moving this direction now I'm facing east it's imagine this you have all the stars in front of you and above you okay now as they start revolving around the planet standing right on top of the planet the planets moving me like this especially as they go over the corner I'm starting to head down right because the planet is revolving this way right because the axis is right here straight up and down so I'm going to be going in this direction so I'm facing here so our stars right here looking at it now I start heading towards them and I start going down the corner but what does it look like to me that the stars are doing they're going up because as they go around the corner they looks like they're going above me to go there they go okay that's up west looking at the Stars okay now now I'm standing this direction on the corner and I'm going to start revolving up I'm heading back this direction so it looks like they're going down and self very simple okay self I'm revolving this direction so here we go I'm going around the planet it looks like they're going that way to my right okay so that's the real world example you want to imagine you know you're looking at the Stars but you're on a planet that's moving it's always going this direction it's always going to the east right if you're if you're looking north well it looks like everything is going to the left you know I'm going east I'm going to get over that hump that corner it looks like they went above me looks like they went up okay so left up right and down Lu Rd north east south and west okay so just talk about the pinwheel for another moment now basically you want to take more than one reading to make sure that you're accurate okay because there can be variances on how this works because the farther away you are from north the less it looks like it's it's moving because the angle is so much broader where around the North Star it seems like it's always going the direction right it's like really cranking around we're down here you know it could just be kind of like moving like this barely doing anything eventually you'll have two hours and hours Wow okay it's way over here all right you know so you want to you want to be careful about taking readings from stars near the horizon things like that because North obviously isn't near the horizon you know it's up in the sky so you want to take more than one reading and you don't want to take a reading of a star that's you know like right right next to you know you want to turn a whole nother side of the sky you know 180 degrees whatever you want to do it's up to you but you definitely want to crank to another part of the sky you know if you look at this and it moves over here you know move down here somewhere and do it again to verify that three times is the best way to do it you know and each one can be you know 15 minutes 20 minutes something like that won't take too much time now I just want to talk about a realization about this pinwheel okay it's only visible 12 hours okay

and that's when there's 12 hours of darkness 12 hours of light all right that's obviously not the case every day of the year so basically we have 12 hours where a star or constellation can move for you okay so basically how that works is

if we have 11 a.m. we'll say and 11 p.m. that's 12 hours and there will be another 12 hours we 11 a.m. again so if you had say the Big Dipper just like that and that's you know I don't know maybe 9:30 10 o'clock at night something like that as time goes on it's going to move in this direction with everything else right around the pinwheel of Polaris all right so 12 hours difference it's going to be over here sound it's going to be see like that okay so this can be very important to visualize you know and this is only you know this is only visible 12 hours because we only have night time 12 hours a day and that's the most it that it can be twelve hours for most of the planet right so that's all you're going to see this here to here that's it you're not going to see the rest because that's daytime all right so we have night and day so that's really important to understand as well you're not going to see you know the full spectrum because half of its going to be concealed from him from the Sun so say this is ten o'clock 10:00 p.m. will be 10:00 a.m. over here that's where it's going to be so just a little tip on the pinwheel and how it works based on the Sun cycle okay you're only going to see half of it okay so lastly tip for being able to look at a single star in the sky for so long without moving your head is to put a stick in the ground put another stick on the ground little why okay look we can you even do two if you want eyes you have to sit down to do this I'm looking at something at such a high trajectory and you make like gun sights you look right through and you do not move you know you just sit still and you line this up and you try to stay as still as possible because line up your star right at the end there and that way you can judge how it's going to move now what I like to do is not use the bottom of the V on the second one no okay the reason being is that as it moves it ends up getting behind one of the wise sticks so I like to either make a little notch or use a natural indicator on that stick you know a little mark that's on something like that so I can get the height so as it moves I can see where it's going to go compared to that I can I can visualize the middle as I'm staring at it and I keep this all in line with it as best I can

15-20 minutes later it's very obvious which direction starts moving you know if you wait even longer it's more obvious it's up to you okay so this is where it's extremely simple to understand it's basically just the planet revolving and stars moving because of it and by understanding how the planet revolves and why you can easily understand why littered works Lu Rd I'm going to left up right down and you're just looking at star or a constellation and you're just looking at it to see what direction it moves over a given period of time the longer time you give it the more obvious it is what direction it's going that's all there is to it and then by using that Lu Rd multi self West you can dictate what direction you're facing on the planet or Lu for North East etc it's really really simple well let's mention it slow appreciate your views your comments your support see you guys in the next one take it