Something Strange Is Happening to the North Star Polaris 

What if it’s been a few years

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Thanks

If I do that, I won’t have enough time to finish pooping.

Shucks, I've met hundreds of people, high school graduates, who swear up and down that the Pleiades is the Little Dipper.

Guess we've come a long way after proving we aren't the center of the universe and the Earth isn't flat. Minus the nut jobs, of course.

Just like climate change. A natural behavior for billion of years until about 40 years ago when it became not normal. Right... :)

Yes you are right. profit at any cost . I also see a huge amount of utter garbage on you tube now, so much so I would be very interested in finding a video site where there is NO junk allowed!!!!

Haven't you heard? When the stars are right the great Cthulhu awakens and drives mankind to madness. And you have to admit, social media is a pretty solid opening.

@@clovernacknime6984 Biden is a servant of the great old ones.

Nice! 🙏

And the Man that perfected the sea-going Clock wasn't paid his $50,000 Pound reward. Cheap bastards !!

​@@peterdarr383Figures!

Yeah, I don't think they trust the north star very much these days. Our wobble is far and fast. Can't define north.

I've always know about it since I was a kid (im a 2010 kid)and I've always liked reading and I never was allowed on social media until I was 8-9 even then I never rally used it but space as always fascinated me I still read a lot of books about it to this day😁👍

And encyclopedias.😄

I was doing that to. I got in trouble because instead of being in a classroom I was reading the sciences at the library

Have fun finding it now.

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It truly seems that the more impossible something seems, sooner or later, it turns out to be possible.

Nothing is impossible

Said the married Batchelor.

Yes the universe somehow brought us here and by the same token the universe will wipe us out. It would seem the universe has a very basic law and that is everything has a beginning, a middle and a end, everything.

We live inside a flowers trees

The more we learn the more we learn. Learning also means removing false learning. Semantic i guess

Curious how we build a house of cards on a castle of sand and insist all is durable until a wave comes. Even then many will have an alternative theory of support

I'm well "north" of a half-century old. For me, it's been "the more I learn, the better I understand how much I _DON'T_ know." It seems safe (to me) to assume that the same is true for civilization in general, whether we admit it or not. 🖖

@@markcoleman9892yes, Socrates (according to Plato) said something quite similar...many variations of "I only know that I know nothing."

@ladyscholar3421 In my head, the picture is of a Sisyphian struggle to the top of the mountain, only to look out upon a sea of mountaintops, stretching beyond the limits of eyesight... 😍 🖖

did u just shat your pants?

... what?

Omg are a big dummy it’s global warming 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

@@adreiiaii510 he shat his pants

Of course. That’s obvious.

Sure, what's a few millennia? 🤣

Vega is among the 10 brightest

Agreed! 'Death' is for losers!

Polaris was always faint from the south of the UK where I live, thanks to LIGHT POLLUTION

Not even a joke now. Pole flip is in motion right now.

do you have any channel recommendation? I'm always on the hunt for good (astro)physics channels!

Couldn’t agree with you more, I didn’t even make two minutes. Thumbs down.

It's because of using a computer generated text to voice program. You're listening to a robot.

nothing strange, just that Polaris, from our perspective is slowly moving away from the celestial north pole. it has not been there forever, and it will not remain there forever, at some point in time our north star will be a different star in a different constellation.

Polaris is part and parcel for amateur-astronomers on the Northern Hemisphere to get their telescope properly aligned. Modern systems seem to take that effort more and more out of the user's hands through software-aided instruments, but I simply like the old-fashioned method of doing it myself. My telescope-mounts have a small auxiliary telescope tube inside of them. I first need to ensure that this small tube is properly aligned to the mount's axes. When preparing a nightly session, I first need to learn the time at which Polaris will cross his transit. I can look this up from some public online sites, e.g., Stellarium. My auxiliary scope reveals a reticle that contains a circle, like a clock dial. When I peek through it, I see that reticle and the dial against the background of the night sky. Knowing at which time Polaris crosses his transit, tells me where I have to expect Polaris' relative position on the reticle. It's like a celestial clock, where Polaris is at the end of the small hand, so to say. The actual Northern Celestial Pole (NCP) is not on the same position as Polaris, but in the center of the dial (it changes slightly and gradually from year to year, but the dial tries to show that too). Like all celestial bodies, Polaris travels around that NCP during a day, in which the Earth rotates around its axis. So, I align my telescope mount in such a way, that I will perceive Polaris on the reticle's dial circle, exactly where it is supposed to be, knowing where it was when it crossed the 12 o'clock position on the dial. If I'm preparing my setup, let's say, 8 hours after that transit time, I know that Polaris has to appear on the dial at 2 o'clock. Why 2 o'clock? Because the small auxiliary scope represents the image upside-down, as every refractor does. So, 12 o'clock appears as 6 o'clock to me, when I'm looking at the reticle. Then I calculate: 8 hours after this 6 o'clock position on the dial equals 2 o'clock on the dial. That's where I want to see Polaris, so I tweak the mount's knobs so as to make this happen. When I do this precisely, this kind of alignment is pretty good, allowing for long exposures that do not show any star trailing, due to the Earth's rotation. By the way, the reason as to why I subtract 4 hours (half of 8 hours) from the 6 o'clock position in a counter-clockwise rotation, is because that is the direction in which celestial bodies seem to rotate around the NCP. And it's 4 hours instead of 8, because the imaginary clock-dial represents 12 hours, whereas a day lasts 24 hours. So, a time difference of 8 hours is represented by half of this amount of time on a dial. This all may sound very complicated if you hear it for the first time, but once you get used to the astronomical basics, it all makes perfectly sense and it stops being difficult entirely.

There is not one

@user-hn2fp9cw7p There is that Southern Cross. Look it up. You can determine the South Celestial pole with that. Try wikipedia. That's a good basic place to start.

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We have no idea what we are seeing or talking about. It’s just all talk for money

Assuming that our planet's axial inclination remains roughly the same and excluding other factors, I would think the effect would be minute at worst. However, the solstices and equinoxes would slowly shift in relation to our calendar.

Not at all.

Tumbling geostationary satellite?

Most likely Bigfoot protecting us by blasting UFO's from the Bronze.

@@hiflyerint8119 A tumbling geostationary satellite wouldn't be much use to anybody, though

meteor exploding in the atmosphere. if it coming straight at you, you wont see a tail

constellation can also be used generically as "a particular grouping of stars"

@Icriedtoday There are 88 official constellations, the big dipper is not one of them.

Thanks. A lot. Well, ok: not really.

​@josepheaton3779 The big dipper, Great bear or Ursa Major is the largest Constellation in the northern hemisphere. Mr. Bear won't be happy!!

@kevin-qm6gb The Big Dipper is an asterisim, Ursa Major, includes several more stars giving it an chest and head that the big dipper doesn't have. You can research this on many websites or in a library in a book. Muscida, also known as Omicron Ursae Majoris is the nose of the bear, but not part of the big dipper.

They seem to be. I’ve always gazed at the North Star. Sometimes I think my father who passed in 1985 is living another life on a planet around one of the Polaris stars.

Wdym “your”?