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Aug 14, 2026

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Forty Minutes Wrong Because I Trusted the Star thumbnail Aug 14 4:27 AM #222 3 min

Forty Minutes Wrong Because I Trusted the Star

Planispheric Astrolabe Construction and Star-Timekeeping

I already owned this latitude, so I flattened the whole sky onto paper — then hung it from one thumb, sighted a star, and confidently read a time forty minutes wrong.

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code-a-day

Aug 14 1980s
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Rotating a Vector to Find a Star's Angle

CORDIC algorithm 🔗 Planispheric Astrolabe Construction and Star-Timekeeping

The astrolabe finds a star by turning a metal disc. CORDIC finds a sine by turning a vector — no multiplier required.

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game

🎮 Turn the Rete Spin an astrolabe's star-map with the arrow keys to align a bright star with its hour marker and read the time from the sky — before the sand runs out.