How do you find the location of the North star?

Answer 1

Find the latitude where you are looking from. For example: Chicago which is 42 degrees north. Look at the horizon while facing north then look 42 degrees towards the zenith. There is the North Star.

Answer 2

Find the Big Dipper/Plough/Great Bear/ Ursa Major. It's seven stars in the shape of a saucepan. Go from the end of the handle, down the handle, into the pan, across the bottom, and up the other side of the pan, then continue almost straight from those last two. The north star is the first one you come to. It's not very bright. Obviously to help you find it the first time, look north. There is also a flattened W called Casssiopeia (5 stars) and the north star is between that and Ursa Major.

Answer 3

Look north and up at an angle equal to your latitude. If you live at 40 degrees north, it will be 40 degrees above the northern horizon. If you live at 30 degrees north latitude it will be 30 degrees above the northern horizon. If you live on the equator it will be right on the horizon.

Polaris, the north star, is at the end of the handle of the little dipper. Unfortunately the little dipper is a dim and difficult to see constellation. Polaris is not an especially bright star, but it is the brightest one in the little dipper. It can also be found by following an imaginary line drawn through the two stars that make the front of the big dipper's bowl. Unfortunately the big dipper is not in a good position to be easily seen for the next few months.

Answer 4

The North Star, Polaris, is found by looking at the two stars that form the outside of the dipper in The Big Dipper, Ursa Major. Those two stars form a line that points directly to Polaris, about 10 degrees away, and which is not as bright as most people would expect.
Polaris is the last star in the handle of the Little Dipper, Ursa Minor.

Answer 5

You start by finding the Big Dipper, a.k.a. Ursa Major, a.k.a. the Great Bear. The two stars that form the outer edge of the dipper's cup point to Polaris, the North Star. Think of it as an imaginary arrow pointing from one star to another. Then there's another imaginary arrow about five times longer going up and out of the cup. The first star you come to should be Polaris. Also, Polaris, the North Star, is a part of the Little Dipper, a.k.a. Ursa Minor, a.k.a. the Little Bear. Polaris is the star at the end of the handle.

Answer 6

Alright, what you want to do is find the constellation Ursa Major(Big Dipper) and the Ursa Minor(Little Dipper) You will see two pointer stars in Big Dipper called Mirac and Dubhe. These two stars situated in Ursa Major are called pointer stars. They are like two eyes and they point DIRECTLY to the North Star or Polaris. By the way, Polaris is in the constellation Ursa Minor or Big Dipper. Hope this help. Good luck!

Answer 7

There are two constellations called the Big and Small dipper. The North Star is at the tip of the handle of the Big Dipper

Answer 8

it is the only star that doesn't rotate, also it is the last star in teh handel of the little dipper or in line with the end of the big dipper, the bowl side.

Answer 9

It's always close to the Ursa Major, either on it's tail or beside it when it gets dark.

Answer 10

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