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Originally Posted by Allan_L
Assuming you are south of the tropic of Capricorn (23.43677° south of the Equator - eg south of Rockhampton )
you will always have a southerly inclined shadow (in daylight).
At Solar Noon it is pointing directly true South, AFAIK.
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Are you saying that if you are North of the Tropic of Capricorn (as I am being just North of Cairns) that this method won’t work? I was hoping to use this method as I have no clear view of the SCP and so much steel around where I set up that a magnetic compass is unreliable😒.