ROTATING NIGHT SKY:During the night, the Earth’s rotation
on its axis slowly shifts the entire sky. This is the same
motion that swings the Sun on its daily east-to-west
trek. The rotational hub is Polaris, the North Star,
located almost exactly above the Earth’s
North Pole. Everything majestically
marches counterclockwise around it,
a motion that be comes evident
after about half an hour.
CONSTELLATIONS:
The star groups
linked by lines are
the con stellations created
by our ancestors thousands
of years ago as a way of mapping
the night sky. Modern astronomers
still use the traditional names, which
give today’s stargazers a per manent link
to the sky myths and legends of the past.
Cartography by Glenn LeDrew
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