Bear Night Lights

Bears, dragons and flies light up our night skies

Greetings everyone and welcome to another edition of Starry, Starry Night. There will be no moon in our early evening sky this weekend, and it's a fine time to go stargazing for some famous constellations. A constellation that's made of bright stars and is very famous is in our northern sky at one hour after sunset. It is, of course, the Big Dipper, more accurately called Ursa Major the Great Bear. If you use the end stars of the Big Dipper's bowl to point down toward the horizon, you'll run right over a fairly bright star. That's a very famous star, though it may not be where you remember it in the sky, if you came to Guam from the mainland U.S. That's Polaris the North Star and it's part of an equally famous constellation that's not easy to see in Guam's skies at all.

Polaris is the end star of the handle of that other familiar constellation, the Little Dipper. Of course, like its bigger cousin, the Little Dipper is only part of the constellation Ursa Minor the Little Bear. Polaris is always 13 degrees above our northern horizon because we're 13 degrees north of the equator but it means that it's very hard or impossible to see Ursa Minor from Guam for much of the year. In winter, the Little Dipper's bowl is below the northern horizon; and in spring and autumn the constellation is parallel to the ground, making it difficult to see. But in summer, the Little Dipper stands virtually upright above Polaris and it's possible to see its faint stars if the sky is dark to the north.

If you measure four fist-widths to the right of the Little Dipper's bowl and look down just a bit, you'll see a very bright star. That's Vega, the fifth brightest star. Measure three fist-widths to the right of the Little Dipper's bowl, and you just may be able to see four dim stars that make a kite shape. That's the head of Draco the Dragon. The Dragon's body loops down toward the horizon from the head and then arches back up over the Little Dipper to end between the Big and Little Dipper's bowls. If you use the end stars of the Little Dipper's bowl to point up, they should point you to a star in the Dragon's tail. That star is Thuban, and in ancient Egyptian times, Polaris was not the Pole Star, Thuban was.

Because of precession, the earth's rotational axis traces a big circle in the sky but the earth precesses very slowly and the circle takes 26,000 years to complete. Our wandering North Pole will be at its closest point of approach to Polaris in the year 2102.

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