Big Dipper

the big dipper is ursa major and i believe that would make the little dipper ursa minor

Yes. The slaves would sing a song from the underground railroad and the line they would repeat was; "Follow the Drinking Gourd" Which told the slaves to follow the Big Dipper, North to freedom.

Ursa Major, the great bear. Part of this constellation has a very prominent asterism

which people refer to as the "Plough" or the "Big Dipper", part of this asterism is what

is used to point to the pole star.

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So it's actually the pole star, in the asterism of the "Little Dipper", in the constellation

of Ursa Minor, that can help traveler find north pole without compass.

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You need to know not only the relative positions of the Big Dipper stars on the sky, but also their distances. The positions of the stars are given in coordinates called right ascension (RA) and declination (Dec). The RAs are usually given in units of hours, which relate to how the sky appears to rotate once a day in (approximately) 24 hours. The Decs tell how far the stars are north of the projection of the Earth's equator on the sky. These positions are fairly easy to measure, by just noting where the stars seems to be in the sky as we see them. The distances to the stars are much harder to measure. The Big Dipper stars are close enough to the Earth so that they seem to move around in the sky a little bit when they are viewed at different times of the year from the Earth as it moves in its orbit around the Sun. This small change in position during the year is called parallax by astronomers. The farther from the Sun, the less the stars move around. The best parallaxes come from a space satellite mission called HIPPARCOS. The HIPPARCOS results show that the Big Dipper stars are between about 80 and 120 light years from the Earth, with errors of a light year or two. With the direction and distance to each star in the Big Dipper, one can then make a 3-D plot of the stars' positions. The stars at either "end" of the Dipper (at the end of the "handle" and the outside "lip" of the bowl) are the farthest away from us. The other fice stars in the middle turn out to be at almost the same distance (80 light years) from us. So, one should envision the ends of the Dipper being the farthest away from us, while the stars in the middle form a nearly flat pattern as viewed from the Earth. Answered by David B. Shaffer, Ph.D. in astronomy, from Caltech.

north

The Dipper appears to rotate in a East to West direction around the celestial North Pole - which is a point that is very close to Polaris.

No. Polaris is in the Little Dipper.

Due north

Ursa Minor, (Little Bear), also known as the tail end of the Little Dipper.

because he love deeping his vegetables in a ranch cream

A big dipper is an alternative name for a roller coaster.

The big dipper looks like a big spoon in the sky

ancient irish and French people thought the big dipper looked like a

doody

Yes, you can see it anywhere in the world from Earth. As long as its night but, it might be in a different position in the sky during the different seasons.

Ursa is Latin for bear, and major means big. The Big Dipper is a part of this constellation. This constellation is shaped like a bear, and the hind part and tail form the Big Dipper.

An autem dipper is another term for an anabaptist, a pickpocket who is caught in the act.

Yes. They are different names for the same thing. Different cultures see different constellations in different ways and give them different names. Another name used for the Big Dipper and Ursa Major is the Plough.

please do not ask silly questions!

Stars in the constellation of Ursa Major. The stars themselves are made mainly out of Hydrogen.

"The Big Dipper" is a traditional asterism of seven prominent stars within the constellation of Ursa Major.