Navigating Using STARS Is EASY?!

[PixelThorn]

"first you need to find Ursa Major"

Welp, I'm out

[massimookissed]

In the Northern hemisphere, satellite TV dishes face south.
Handy if you're in an urban area and light pollution means you can't see any stars.

[rehan_Qayyum]

Clouds are this guy's biggest enemies

[enthurian]

Extra fun fact, if you happen to have a protractor on hand, the angle between the horizon and polaris is your latitude.

[egarciaveasey]

Carry on that line and you will come to a constellation that looks like a W. The point of the 'larger' half of it points to the Andromeda galaxy. It won't save your life but if the sky is dark you will see the furthest thing possible with the naked eye

[finestcandy]

I live in a place where pollution is so bad you can’t see a single star

[evelynshadelight]

Another way that can work without needing to find a constellation-the rise and set of the moon.

Like the sun, the moon rises in the east and sets in the west, watching where it comes from, seeing the directions of east and west be made in the line the moon goes in also helps with finding north and south-just turn the line 90° clockwise and north is on the once west side of the line and south is on the lateral side. It works the same counter-clockwise, but backwards.

[BlondeQtie]

then look for mintaka, one of the bright stars in orions belt. it basically rises in true east and sets in true west. handy to know! i learned a lot about the night skies for astro navigation at sea 😊

[amgclark]

For anyone else that missed Grade 3, Ursa Major is otherwise known as the Big Dipper and the North Star (Polaris) is the last star in the handle of Ursa Minor (the Little Dipper). Also, despite looking like spoons, both constellations are supposed to be bears, hence the "Ursa" part.

[AbdulAhmed-nh]

“And He is the One Who has made the stars as your guide through the darkness of land and sea. We have already made the signs clear for people who know.”

Source (QURAN)
Religion: ISLAM

[yuvalne]

Yeah, north star is definitely one of the easiest if you know where to look. There's also the Cassiopeia method (look for a large W, make a line perpendicular to the bottom which crosses the left corner and continue it for about the same length), plus the north star is always the same number of degrees about the horizon as your latitude (so if you're in the middle of the US, it will be about 45° above the horizon).

[AstronAndry]

Southern hemisphere. Have to draw 2 lines and intersect them.

[Mikelingbruh-nv]

Idk if it’s for me but that star who guides you to the North Star is called a dipper or a gourd and everyone near me calls it that

[XDWarrior]

Students who read Class 8 NCERT book: I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you 🗿

[finalscore]

I like Cassiopoeia, looks like a very distinctive "W". The middle point of the W points close enough to North.

[alexiaana]

Fun fact: The constellation he is talking about is actually a smaller part of the Ursa Major. It's called the Plough or Big Dipper (in America & Canada) and it's made out of seven stars, which are actually double. If you ever get the chance to see the Plough through a telescope, I recommend you talking a look at Mizar and Alcor as you can clearly see how double stars look like.

PS: Stars that are blue are actually hot and stars that are red are cold.

[thatestoniancountryball]

ursa major is actually just the big dipper. polaris is the easiest star to find because it is in the same plane as the last 2 stars of the most easy to see constellation

[icecube]

It would be a miracle if I could see that many stars from where I live

[theflyingalpaca]

In the southern hemisphere you can look for the southern cross (four stars in a cross shape) and below 2 bright stars. By taking the perpendicular bisector of those two stars (perpendicular to the middle point of the two stars) and looking where is crosses over with where the southern cross is pointing. That is south...

WHY SO COMPLICATED

[Tinywarriorhippo]

If you don’t feel like finding a constellation look at the moon, the glowing side of the moon is where the sun is and from there you know where north, south, east, and west.


If you’re in a forest find moss, because moss always grows facing north, same with sunflowers