SkyNews – September 2019

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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