Post AmFq8Q3ME3A2STEQTo by APoD@botsin.space
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 (DIR) Post #AmFq8Q3ME3A2STEQTo by APoD@botsin.space
       2024-09-22T07:28:04Z
       
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       Chicagohenge: Equinox in an Aligned CityImage Credit & Copyright: Anthony Artesehttps://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240922.html #APOD
       
 (DIR) Post #AmGEf1sTWonHw3DxaK by caseyjonesed@awscommunity.social
       2024-09-22T12:02:48Z
       
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       @APoD 👏
       
 (DIR) Post #AmGQtWcBFBNclkHTfc by michaeldarnton@mastodon.social
       2024-09-22T14:19:39Z
       
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       An amusing factoid: Chicago's famous grid is not actually N-S, E-W aligned: most E-W streets fall south by a bit as you move west. The whole grid is tilted counterclockwise, as you quickly discover when you look critically. Wacker, where this picture is shot is one of the few that do run true, perhaps because as a recent raised street t's a modern artifact, not original to the grid.I found one blog that accounts for the error and places the tilt at 1.3 degrees:  https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2020/04/why-north-south-chicago-streets-jog-at-north-avenue.html
       
 (DIR) Post #AmGXqB07qXCsXspbsm by PJ_Evans@mas.to
       2024-09-22T15:38:01Z
       
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       @APoD Much of Los Angeles is very close to the geographic grid. It's Not At All Fun when you have to drive into the sun.
       
 (DIR) Post #AmGuLQxgkjbo11097w by enantiomer@stoat.zone
       2024-09-22T19:49:39Z
       
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       @APoD there were two weeks where this would happen from our roof deck in downtown Oakland and they were  holy