<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Liron Kopinsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:liron.kopinsky@gmail.com">liron.kopinsky@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
"East" from anywhere:<br><a href="http://www.kosherjava.com/maps/zmanim.html?lat=61.270232790000605&lng=-149.94140625&zoom=4" target="_blank">http://www.kosherjava.com/maps/zmanim.html?lat=61.270232790000605&lng=-149.94140625&zoom=4</a><br>
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<br></blockquote><div><br>Thanks to RLK and RZS for linking to this site. <a href="http://www.kosherjava.com/zmanim-project/bearing-to-yerushalayim-and-zmanim-map/">http://www.kosherjava.com/zmanim-project/bearing-to-yerushalayim-and-zmanim-map/</a> has more background information and links which I won't have time to read be`iun before the hag, including one article here at aishdas: <a href="http://www.aishdas.org/articles/mizrach.htm">http://www.aishdas.org/articles/mizrach.htm</a>. Apparently it's a mahloket aharonim whether we use rhumb lines or great circles. I'm still curious to know what Jews in Alaska do lema'ase.<br>
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