How To Navigate By the Stars
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Published 2008-09-29
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All Comments (21)
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Jupiter is a planet. It wanders all over the place relative to the fixed stars. Depending on the year and date, it might be near Orion, but it could be in a completely different place, and so could anyone who navigates using this video.
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Thank you for the video.
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A lot of false information in this video, any thoughts on correcting it?
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What if you are in the southern hemisphere? We don't get the north star down here?
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Polaris is not the brightest star in the sky. It is the 48th brightest. The brightest (by far) is Sirius (excluding the Sun, of course). Jupiter does not apear or disapear around Orion. It moves through a lot of constellations. Its position is by no means constant. Its good that you made a video attempting to link constellations. Be careful to check your facts next time, otherwise people might get confused - and lost in the woods :)
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hey what star signs can i get to see in the southern hemisphere and in what time of year? it is going on early spring time nw. I saw the milky way last year or the year before, around early january, it was awesome, it also had a comet going through it at the time. I wasnt very interested in the night skies back then
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Here right now before the world go to shit and no more phones work by the end this month stay safe learn to leave outside and be careful peace love light and healing
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agreed, polaris is actually quite dim
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nice , but one error - polaris(north star) is not the brightest star in the sky by any means of judgement, It is a common missconception though. It is accually a pretty dim star in the sky.
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Matt 2vs2&9 has Magi see a star& for reasons best know to the priest who dreamed up the story, thought that it meant a baby Jewish king had been born. So they tried the obvious place for a baby king= the capital of Jerusalem. Herod told the Magi to go 6 miles south down the road to Bethlehem. They didn't need a star to guide them but the author placed one to ensure they didn't miss the road. I think the star was probably called Tinker Bell. Astronomers would have noted constellation & brightness
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thx for the vid, i never knew that
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I liked this video a lot. it's sad though that its hard to see the constellations where i'm from since the lights are so bright here. 5/5
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Meanwhile if you are in Northern Canada, you have about 80 trillion stars in the sky and can't find any constellations lol
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There are some corrections that were needed, but that were never made. 1. Jupiter moves. It is not always found near Orion. 2. Polaris is not the brightest star. There were others. This is over ten years old and was never corrected. That's really not okay.
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WOW
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Polaris is not the brightest star in the sky...The Sun is, Duurrrr! ! ! But the 2nd brightest star in the sky is actually Sirius with a magnatude of a whopping -1.46 ! Correction: Polaris is the 48th brightest star, with only a magnatude of 2.01
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Cool
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You are doomed if beetleguse goes supernova.
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the north star is on the top though so it is not rotating.... not sure aout the big dipper thing he was talking about, thought it was onh the horizon
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It's relatively common knowledge for astrophysicists and amateur astronomers.
