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Back to [[CDB|Main]] / [[:Category:Wurm universe|Wurm Universe]] / [[:Category:Astronomy|Astronomy and geography]]/ '''{{PAGENAME}}'''Created by [[User:Helge|Helge]] ----
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<br>''' Back to [[:Category:Astronomy|Astronomy]]---- ===Results:'''<br>=== * Latitude(angle of rotation center): 17°http://www.helges.dk/wurm/pics/latitude001.png * Sun travels west around the sky. Angle is Maximum solar altitude: 72° from , west horizon (18° from being vertical).
===Final comment===Helge
Wurm is a very strange and interresting planet. Even though it's in the middle of a pole switch and the current axis pitch is around 35° (which would be absolutely fatal for the life on planet earth), it is full of life and is very habitable.[[Category:Astronomy]][[Category:Babel/A]]
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===Intro===
<font style="font-size: 8pt;">Day of Awakening, week 2 of the Raven's starfall, 986</font>
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===Rotation center of the sky===
Finding the rotation center was quite simple.<br>
First, a look directly up in the sky, facing magnetic north. This picture was taken by clipping many pictures into one:<br>
http://www.helges.dk/wurm/pics/050529_-_around0000_-_N_straightup_-_stars_going_towards_south.png<br>
By looking at the picture we surprisingly concluded that the visible rotation center was somewhere near the western horizon, and not north or south as on earth.<br>
'''Conclusions:'''<br>
* Wurm's geographic north (rotation center) is towards Wurm's magnetic west.
* Sun rises in magnetic north (geo. east) , travels around magnetic east (geo. south) and sets in magnetic south (geo. west).
* Sky rotates counter-clockwise around the visible rotation center.
* We're located on the geographicaly north hemisphere of the Wurm planet (magneticaly west).
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===Latitude and current axis pitch===
http://www.helges.dk/wurm/pics/050529_-_around0200-0300_-_W_-_stars_going_counter_clockwise_-_02.png<br>
Finding the axis pitch was quite easy after we found the latitude. We just looked straight up and took a picture when the time was 12:00, calculated the angle to the sun.<br>
* Axis pitch: 35°
http://www.helges.dk/wurm/pics/axis_pitch001.png
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===Final comment===
Wurm is a very strange and interesting planet. Even though it's in the middle of a pole switch and the current axis pitch is around 35° (which would be absolutely fatal for the life on planet earth), it is full of life and very habitable.
Back to [[:Category:Astronomy|Astronomy]]
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