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----[[CDB|Main]] / [[:Category:Wurm universe|Wurm Universe]] / [[:Category:Astronomy|Astronomy]] / '''{{PAGENAME}}'''Created by [[User:Helge|Helge]]
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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===
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===Results===
* Latitude (angle of rotation center): 17°
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===Final comment===
Wurm is a very strange and interresting 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.
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