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Originally Posted by kon1966
If you have a android phone, download a free app called solar polar align.
You can find true south any time of day. Just have a vertical object like a can so you can use its shadow with the app on flat surface.
The long sides of your phone will point to true south and the top and bottom of phone will be 90 degrees to south so you can get a long spirit level or plank to put 2 mount legs against.
Regards
Kon
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Interesting method but I’d question its accuracy ( not the app’s accuracy within the phone but the resultant shadows accuracy with respect to the pole
I’m still using a stick and the sun at solar noon , never fails and gets me to within a few degrees of the pole ready for a polar alignment routine to get below an arc minute anywhere.
Thanks for posting