use it a bit in aviation as well

That's nice.

especially if you're navigating with dead reckoning with a compass and stop watch only

That's pretty much how it was done before the 1990s 😛

Nah, before that even

" before that even " ... You're not making sense now.

VOR to VOR was before GPS and that's pretty old

VOR? I've never heard of that.

VHF Omindirectional Radio

Ok I see how that can be a thing.

Radio light houses

Instead of visible light, you ping with lower frequency

Sort of, it emits a radio frequency and you tune your receiver to it and can intercept the signal or go directly towards it (or away from it) and use it along with another VOR station to triangulate your position

That would only work on " short " range though

VHF is very high frequency

Could it bounce off the ionisphere like HAM signals?

Lower frequencies travel further but VHF can be picked up hundreds of nautical miles away depending on how it's setup and the surrounding terrain

ok then the answer would be yes. I get it.

I never knew about VOR.

but back to dead reckoning with a compass and stop watch, you'd need to calculate how far you're doing that for, the speed you're going, the speed and direction of the wind, the correction to your heading to offset that wind, etc..

But still tbh, I'm so ol school, I'd preffer the watch and the telescope.

or sextant, w/e you want to refer it as.

they didn't use a sextet for that in aviation, they used an e6b

it's a slide ruler

My BAC is on the rise lol

well, check it out, like I said, lots of math involved. Although with the fancy (and very expensive) glass cockpit setup with GPS and what not, it's all automatically done for you and not as fun

guys I have a hot take

I have a decent sized telescope with a motorized EQ mount. I couldn't afford a computerized mount so I have to manually polar align. It's a laborous job to do without a computer.

cheese is sometimes much better than chocolate

It's very important I get these measurments correct in order to get decent long exposure pics.

On top of that... My Right Ascension Axis is warped 😐 After about 20 seconds of exposure, star streaks will become very defined... it sux

You ever play No Man's Sky? @kyzercube

Does it drive you nuts how they just throw physics completely out the window?

I know of the game. I have never played it though.

I've seen one video about no man's sky by Internet Historian

Lol

They'll have two planets pretty much right next to each other and completely ignore the roche limit

oh and asteroid fields are everywhere, not orbiting anything in particular, just floating there

@Revaeroski Rouche limit is when the gravity tidal forces break up shit... layman term definition 😛

right, and there's a distance where that comes into play between two massive bodies, correct?