To: petuniasevan
Where is Polaris?
5 posted on
08/26/2003 4:49:06 PM PDT by
boris
(Education is always painful; pain is always educational.)
To: boris
Well, you're supposed to run across it if you draw a line through the first two stars of Cassiopeia and go toward the left of the picture (assuming we're facing north).
6 posted on
08/26/2003 5:03:29 PM PDT by
aruanan
To: boris
And Lacerta looks more like a spermatozoan than a lacerta.
7 posted on
08/26/2003 5:04:59 PM PDT by
aruanan
To: boris
Polaris? It's also known as Alpha Ursae Minoris, or the North Star. You will find it in the northern sky very close to the North Celestial Pole. This is the imaginary point that the sky seems to revolve around in the Northern Hemisphere.
An easy way to locate it is to first find the "Big Dipper" (part of Ursa Major). Note the two stars at the end of the "bowl". Trace a line from them and you should arrive at the vicinity of Polaris.
8 posted on
08/26/2003 5:07:38 PM PDT by
petuniasevan
(Death and taxes are both certain, but death at least isn't an annual event.)
To: boris
Ah. In relation to the above image (doh!)...
As the above chart shows, it would be a little ways below the APOD image, about where the link "pole" is located.
9 posted on
08/26/2003 5:14:17 PM PDT by
petuniasevan
(Death and taxes are both certain, but death at least isn't an annual event.)
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