circumpolar star

Circumpolar stars close to the celestial pole move only slowly.

One approaches the Emperor from the south, thus placing him in front of the circumpolar stars.

Circumpolar star, stars that never rise or set from the perspective of a given latitude on Earth.

Circumpolar stars remain above the horizon throughout the whole year, making them always visible in the sky at dawn.

Groombridge used the instrument to determine the positions of over 4000 circumpolar stars.

Chinese used circumpolar stars to determine the north-south axis of settlements.

Thus northern circumpolar stars move counterclockwise around the North Star.

Polaris is a circumpolar star, and so it is always seen nearly exactly in the direction of true north.

In many ancient religions, the northern circumpolar stars were associated with darkness, death and the underworld of the dead.

The circumpolar stars move clockwise around it.

The sailor replies with his description of the use of circumpolar stars to navigate by.

Circumpolar stars never dip below the horizon.

With a declination of -79 , this is a circumpolar star for much of the southern hemisphere.

To navigate along a degree of latitude a sailor would have needed to find a circumpolar star above that degree in the sky.

All circumpolar stars are within the circumpolar circle.

The star Canopus, second brightest in the sky, is a circumpolar star for most southern latitudes.

At latitudes to the north of +51 N, Vega remains continually above the horizon as a circumpolar star.

The circumpolar stars appear to lie within a circle that is centered at the celestial pole and tangential to the horizon.

As the observer moves northward the pole rises and the circumpolar stars appear, now unblocked by the Earth.

The ancient Egyptians aligned the great pyramids at Giza with the northern circumpolar stars.

But bow under the sun and moon and eleven circumpolar stars can this glorified gymnasium help solve anything?"

At the Tropic of Cancer the radius of the circumpolar stars reaches 24 .

The celestial Arctic Circle was regarded as identical to the circumference of the circumpolar stars and therefore a variable.

Octans was created by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1752 out of faint circumpolar stars.

Between 1908 and 1915, Struve with collaborators determined right ascension and declination of 1407 circumpolar stars, taking about 11,000 observations for each coordinate.