where is the north star?

Question

Where is the north star in our sky in red bluff ca

Answer 1

Find the Big Dipper. It will be in the northern direction. The 2 "pointer" stars that are the lip of the dipper point to Polaris, the North Star. It is not a very bright star. The North Star is the end of the handle of the Little Dipper.

Picture of Big Dipper:
http://www.astropix.com/HTML/C_SPRING/BIGDIP.HTM

Relative positions of Big Dipper, Little Dipper and the North Star:
http://www.earthsky.org/skywatching/50904/how-can-i-tell-the-big-dipper-from-the-little-dipper

Answer 2

The North Star is a title of the star best suited for navigation northwards. A candidate must be visible from Earth and circumpolar to the north celestial pole. The current one is Polaris. It is the star at the end of the "handle" of the Little Dipper asterism in the constellation Ursa Minor. It is close to the celestial North Pole, but off by 1°.

The North Star has been historically used by explorers to determine their latitude. At any point north of the equator the angle from the horizon to the North Star (its altitude) is the same as the latitude from which that angle was taken. For example, the angle to the North Star for a person at 30° latitude will be about 30°.

Polaris has a visual magnitude of 1.97 (second magnitude). In 3000 BC the faint star Thuban in the constellation Draco was the North Star. At magnitude 3.67 (fourth magnitude) it is only one-fifth as bright as Polaris. The first magnitude star Vega will be the North Star by AD 14,000.

Currently, there is no South Star as useful as Polaris; the faint star σ Octantis is closest to the south celestial pole. However, the constellation Crux, the Southern Cross, points towards the south pole.

Answer 3

In the north about half way up from the north at the end of the little dipper's handle, that very dim star that almost never moves.

Answer 4

Directly north. Take the latitude of where you live and that is the exact celestial latitude of Polaris(the north star)

Answer 5

The North Star is in the constellation of Ursa Major(The Big Dipper)

Answer 6

somewhere north