Is there a South Star? - Astronomy Stack Exchange The star Polaris is commonly known as the Northern Star because it always points North This being said is there a South star that always points south?
What is this rapidly twinkling red, blue, and white star I saw? There are two sets of binary pairs that are almost exactly along the same line of sight such that the light from the four stars together co-mingles and from Earth looks like a single star Interestingly, the different stars have different colors, meaning that as you stare at it, it can appear white, red, or blue, just as you described
If the earth was not tilted, what would be the north star? A cleaner way to ask this might be, what would be the north star if earth wasn't tipped? What would be the south star? What if it was tipped 90 degrees? That gives four of the six stars I'm looking for I'm not sure how to phrase the question for the other two
Very bright star in the east at northern hemisphere. What is it? 1 There's a link on the very page you link to for other planets that shows Jupiter apparently rising about 7 or 8 pm so that may be it The article says "Watch for the moon to swing near Jupiter on December 18 and December 19 " so if that bright object is near the moon on those dates that is probably what you are looking at
Whats that very bright star (south-oriented, appearing at 5 p. m. )? From my home I can see a very bright star (or a planet ?), appearing before 5pm local time, when I look toward South It's really much more brighter than any other star, it's very often the only one you can see because of ambient light in the neighbourhood
How can you determine the date using nothing but a star chart from the . . . Mind also it is WAY more accurate to find North (South) direction in a star chart by drawing a line from the centre through Polaris (Sigma Octantis) All other directions follow You can break ambiguity of time and date, if your chart shows solar system objects like planets which change their position with respect to the stars
polaris - Are the North Star and the moon ever visible in the night sky . . . The North star is always above the horizon for almost all points in the Northern hemisphere, day or night There are limits on how close the Moon and the North Star can appear; what angle between them are you requiring? Do you expect readers to object about the accuracy of the night sky on the book cover?
What is the connection between declination and latitude? One more question In that equation we take the altitude of lower culmination or upper culmination For example If a question is like this - " The altitudes of a circumpolar star at culminations are 70° and 10°, both culminations being north of zenith" And we have to find declination there will be two choices for altitude to put in that equation Also I'm confused in south north of zenith