I stare at the stars every night with a beautiful view here in rural PA. When I googled “how to find the North Star” your video was the first one to pop up. Thanks man! Great video, great quality and educational 👏🏻
I deduce from your video that you are probably from "the south" (southern Europe, southern US, I don't know). Where I live the Big Bear is always visible and reasonnably high in the sky.
@ianlauerastro I should have mentioned, I did a google search and your channel was the 1st that I saw!!! Glad that I found it so I liked and subscribed! I'll be back to learn more!
I already knew the big dipper method and was trying to polar align my star tracker but i was not able to find polaris, not even while aligning to the nirth with a compass. Reason was that there were so many stars that it was impossible to distinguish them between al these stars
You must have a good view of the night sky. I can easily see it using the Shaka symbol. It's pretty bright. My view of the night sky isn't great. Too many city lights.... Enjoy your good view. 🤙
My country is sri lanka situated 6 degrees north to the equator. Nowadays in midnight to dawn , i can look both big dipper and polaris , even though it is few degrees above northern horizon. Only northern horizon is visible to my home area as there are huge paddy field of sevaral miles towards north.
In the 1970s I made a site glass to locate the North Star. For about 10 years every time I checked the star was in the view finder. 2inch steel pipe 2 foot long with washers welded on the ends with a 1/2 hole. I moved away in 1988 so not sure if it’s still hooked on the garage post.
How is Polaris always above the North Pole when earths axis doesn’t move while it orbits the sun? People draw a line from the North Pole to Polaris, but let’s say it’s winter. 6 months later, that 23.5 degrees hasn’t moved, so that new imaginary line never intersects with the the one drawn 6 months ago. What am I missing? I know it’s really far, over 400 light years I think. But 23.5 degrees, if it’s steady, will always point somewhere different. Please help, anybody!
I mean, you basically already said it: it's very far away. Compared to the distance, the earth is basically not moving. Yes, technically the line goes to a slightly different spot, but that's pretty much unnoticeable over that distance.
