Hi guys,

i know some of you go camping and others have leet google skills so im hoping someone might be able to help me out.

i have a lensatic compass here and im trying to find 180 degrees due east, how do i do that? its got markings on it but 180 is south..

i been trying to find out how to use it did some googleing which had alot of interesting things about how to use it to find distance and sine and all that stuff i dont need..

so can anyone tell me how the fug do i find 180 east? im pritty sure its not west cause if it was located west they would have just said west, not 180 east..

North is up. Then you could work it out from there.

:P

face west, east is 180 behind u :P

Hey these compasses look pretty f***en sick. Where do I get one?

Pass me the left handed screwdriver

Degrees east (or west) is usually in reference to longitude. North and south are latitude. A location can be given in degree minutes seconds north/south and degree minutes seconds east/west .

A course heading or heading is a degree based around north being 0. And is given as a single number.

Sometimes magnetic variations (ie. the difference between true and magnetic north) are given as degrees east or west. But they are usually small numbers like 2 degrees west.

The example you gave makes little to no sense in any traditional sense I have heard of. Perhaps you should give us the full context in which this was said to you.

dosn't 180' east , and 180' west refer more to longtitude, and not so much direction on a compass?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=0,180&spn=31.626789,40.869141&z=5&om=1
0' latitude and 180 ' longitude

i realy have no clue =]



last edited by 3x0dus at 09:34:11 28/May/07

while you're looking for 180 degrees east, can you pick me up a lefthanded philips screwdriver

i hear there pretty hard to find, and fairly expensive aswell jim =]

Hey, while this thread is here.

Who were the various members of QGL that used to do that "urban exploring"? Go around at night with flashlights into abandoned area's ect. Sounded bloody wicked.

If you were one of those people, please PM me.

Who were the various members of QGL that used to do that "urban exploring"? Go around at night with flashlights into abandoned area's ect. Sounded bloody wicked.

Black people do alot of "urban exploring" with flashlights and balaclava's.

i can help you with underwater compass work..

180 deg east? wtf u smokin

theres only 360 deg in the compass.. 180 deg is half the compass...


north to east is 90 deg east to south is 90 deg and so on

anyway.. 180 deg on the compass is south... and you can go 180 deg east or west on the compass and you will still be at south

needs more context

that's what obes said, 3 hours ago

This is 180 East

http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/9657/180etx6.jpg

Ps: If you happen to be using a special type of compass, one that goes right up to 720 degrees for accuracy. Then 180E is actually 90E. You have to half the number.

last edited by Lynx at 15:07:16 28/May/07

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Ps: If you happen to be using a special type of compass, one that goes right up to 720 degrees for accuracy. Then 180E is actually 90E. You have to half the number.

lawl wtf?! Seriously? Wouldn't there just be twice the number of divisions of 360 degrees? 720 would be going around the circle twice! Can't have more than 360 degrees in a circle?!?!

lynx, there is 360 degrees in a full circle... In navigational terms sub divisions of a degree are called minutes, and sub divisions of a minute are called seconds, but are not needed on headings (a single degree is more accurate then any compass).

Why ? well it could be because 360 is divisible by so many numbers. It might be because its nearly the same number as number of days in a solar year. It could be because of some whack ass Indian or or was it Aztec hymm ? Could even be to do with the Book of revelations having a 360 day calendar with 12, 30 day months.

In short 720 degree compass makes no sense, and you should have spent less time playing games and trolling forums and more time at school doing maths, history, religion or I guess even H&PE (they'd do orientiering right ?).

I'm full aware of that.
But I have seen compasses that complete a circle at 720 degrees, most likely from china. I also have a clock from china that uses the roman numeral I..II..III..IIII..V
I guess it is easier to say 251.5 degrees than 125.75 degrees

last edited by Lynx at 16:57:55 28/May/07

PS: If you're looking for bearing, there is no 180 degrees east.

There is 180 degrees, and there is east (90 degrees).

but are not needed on headings (a single degree is more accurate then any compass).

My Compass' go up to 4 decimal places of a Second o.O
But I don't manually read them and I doubt TufNut's is that accurate :o

It is easier to say 251.5 degrees than 125.75 degrees

If the person you were talking to knew anything (at all) about angles, it would be easier to say:

125º45'

As posted before, the 180ºE they are referring to may be Longitude, but then for a position you'd also need a Latitude.

The object you seek is 9 clicks west of your position