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Old 07-07-2006, 04:24 PM
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regardless of how your wedge latitude scale reads, in the southern hemisphere your latitude is set by deducting your latitude from 90 degrees not by adding to zero degrees that is why southern hemisphere latitudes are sometimes specified as minus degrees. My latitude is -38 or 38 degrees south therefore my wedge is set to 52 degrees.
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