FreeTrav wrote:wingfield wrote:Perhaps we could also get an exact value for the axial tilt, so that we could then get tropic lines as well. We do have the Equator, which is a nice start.
I believe that there was some stuff at the beginning of MT&T which said that the tilt of Safehold was eleven degrees more than Earth - so 34.4 degrees. The problem with drawing the tropics is that the extant map doesn't go all the way to the poles, nor does it cover a full 360 degrees at the equator - and we don't know how much is omitted in either case - so you wouldn't be able to draw accurate tropic or polar lines anyway.
I'll check that. Thanks. Eleven degrees is a major variation, rather than the "slightly" that is mentioned elsewhere.
With a 34.4 degree tilt, you have a tropic zone of 68.8 degrees, arctic regions of 34.4 degrees at each pole and temperate zones each only 21.2 degrees wide. That makes for really savage seasonal fluctuations!