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For my third blog, I came across a mental floss article giving some helpful tips on how to navigate at night by looking at the stars. As we all know people have been using the stars to navigate from place to place for really long time, so it seems like something pretty handy to know. Here are a couple of the tips noted in the article:

• If your trying to find the North Star what you need to look out for are Cassiopeia and the Big Dipper. Once you find the big dipper, what you want to do is “look at the Dipper’s ladle and pretend you’re pouring soup from it. The flow of the space soup will point you straight to the North Star” (Mentalfloss).
• Below the equator the North Star is not visible, so if you find yourself in Australia or something you’re going to want to find the constellation Crux. Crux is supposed to look like a kite and the trick is “if you draw a line from the top of the kite to the bottom, it will point you south” (Mentalfloss).

So there you go. If you want to read about some more cool tips on celestial navigation you can find the link here

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