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Jay Logan's avatar

I kept all modern measurements out of my fantasy world, so I had to improvise using the sort of ideas you expressed here. Sometimes it made it quite difficult to express what I wanted to show in the story. But after doing it for years, it got easier. I took an astronomy class in college which helped me see how to use the phases of the moon to tell time.

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Mary Catelli's avatar

How wonderful!

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Eric Hinkle's avatar

I get the idea from this that one of the first things someone from a more low-tech world would notice upon arriving in our world (or any other) would be that the night sky was vastly different. I mean, assuming that they don't get dropped down in the middle of the Bronx or the like.

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Mary Catelli's avatar

The Bronx would probably be even worse, because all the stars would be washed out and so look very different. I was in my mid-teens before I ever saw the Milky Way, and I've never been in a situation to actually put the ability to walk by starlight to the test. . . .

But yeah, they would see at once that the night sky was different even if they were in a wilderness where they could see that clearly.

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