Been watching stars for quite a while. I watch the big dipper move around the sky over a period of months. Why does the north star never move?
Been watching stars for quite a while. I watch the big dipper move around the sky over a period of months. Why does the north star never move?
Cause we move, not them lol.
North star "Polaris" is only about one degree off from exact center of the earths "north pole". It does move a full rotation every day, but being less then one degree off from center it's hard to tell.
Wonder if theres a "south star" that people follow when they get lost in the woods on the south side of the equater?? lol
The Polaris star does move though :thumb:
Wonder if theres a "south star" that people follow when they get lost in the woods on the south side of the equater?? lol
How exactly does the posi-trac rear end on a Plymouth work!?
It just does.
Joe Dirt? :thumb:
Yes, it's inline with our spinning axis and REALLY far way. Stars in general are so far away that they don't appear to move in relationship to each other. This is how they discovered what planets were. They were 'stars' that moved over time in relationship to to the 'stars' around them.
Trivia:
When I was working at Rockwell, they had a tower there for calibrating ICBM gyros. They still used the North Star for doing it.
So Pat, where in lies the trivia?
Are you looking for the name of the tower???