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How to Find Your Way Using Stars Azka Javeria

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How to Find Your Way Using Stars

Azka Javeria

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Imagine one night you arrange to meet a friend under a lamppost on the other side of a gentle hill. As you walk towards your friend you would see the light appear over the brow of the hill, long before your friend became visible. You would know exactly what direction they were in, even though you could not see them. This is the simple concept behind using stars to find our way at night.

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All we need to do is find a star that is exactly above the place we need to get to and it will point exactly the right direction for us, from quarter of world away. However stars move mostly after a few minutes. But there is one star that doesn’t appear to move. It is called the Polaris or the North Star.

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The question is how to find the Polaris? It’s very easy, for finding the North Star is by finding the

‘Plough’, an easy to identify group of seven stars. It is known as the ‘Big Dipper’ to the Americans and the ‘saucepan’ to many others. Next you find the ‘pointer’ stars, these are the two stars that a liquid would run off if you tipped up your ‘saucepan’. The North Star will always be five times the distance between these two pointers in the direction that they point (up away from the pan).

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The ‘Plough’ rotates anti-clockwise about the North Star, so it will sometimes appear on its side or even upside down. However its relationship with the North Star never changes and it will always dependably point the way to it.

The reason the North Star is so important for natural navigation is that it sits directly over the North Pole.

This link shows the rotation of the stars as well.http://www.naturalnavigator.com/find-your-way-using/stars