Here, there's a DIY on this forum for how to do this (ironically, I found this post on google). The marks we're talking about are on the 7th picture:

https://www.hondacivicforum.com/m_159828/tm.htm

I think this is setting the timing for a SOHC car, whereas yours looks to be DOHC. As far as I know, on SOHC cars, one of the alignment marks is on the timing belt cover. I don't see a timing belt cover in your pic, so ...that might be why you don't have a marker for alignment.

To answer why a strobe light is useful: try taking a picture of something moving fast without using flash. When you capture the picture, it looks blurry. With flash, you're supplying a large amount of light in a very small period of time. The flash reflects off the object you're capturing and comes back. Right before and after this bright reflection comes to your camera, everything is relatively dark. Even with good indoor/outdoor lighting, flash is typically much brighter, so film, just like your eyes, emphasizes only that single moment of intense light.

A crankshaft is spinning anywhere from around 700 to 1300 times per minute at idle. That translates to about 10 to 20 times per second. You want the timing gun because you're trying to use your eyes to follow a dot on that crankshaft pulley, which is spinning at 10-20 times per second. Like forty said, it's not possible to be precise without a timing light.

 

O where do i clamp the light on the #1 plug wire. Do i do it to the wire or pull it out of the ditrubutor and clam it to the end?

 

Do not disassemble the distributor to check the timing. Just place the inductive clamp anywhere convenient along the #1 plug wire. The red clamp attaches to the positive battery terminal, whereas the black clamp attaches to a convenient engine part as a ground. You also need to insert a jumper wire into the 2P Service Check Connector near the ECU behind the passenger kick panel.

 

Yea!!! i did it i am timed. Thanks for every1 that helped. Really apreciate(sp on that) it.