02-07-2018, 05:08 AM
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| Demiguise
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Hobbiton
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Ravenclaw
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Ronnie Thurkell
Gryffindor Seventh Year
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|  lives in a hobbit hole || Ern and Touz's Nuzzle || roflysst || looking at a seed packet
You know Bel had been expecting the Big Dipper was something like The Pot, just... a line of stars. Three stars maybe. Enough to make a line or the hand on a clock, so finding that it was supposed to be an asterism shaped like a scoop had her going 'ohhhh!' as she looked at the page. That changed everything. And then Polaris was part of another dipper. Okay.
Bel wrote this down and then went over to the telescope again. This time armed with the information of what to look for, she looked at the alien sky and in a few minutes found the plough, and followed it to find The North Star. Hmm it was pretty bright. Okay. And Polaris there.... yeah it was part of another dipper, the Little one! Yeah! This brought on a slight victory wiggle as she stood at the telescope, then Bel pulled away abd returned to her notes.
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Finding North with Polaris
First I had to figure out what the Big Dipper looked like because it did not look like the hand of a clock. Once I knew what it looked like (a really deep scooper spoon) it was easier to find it and then follow the instructions about tracing an imaginary line from the asterism to Polaris. And then once I had Polaris I had North. So basically the finding north thing is only useful if you know what the asterisms or constellations that are part of the process of finding it actually look like in the first place.
There. Done. Right? Hopefully she'd been right. Bel also drew a quick diagram of the stars in question on her parchment.
.... and then drew the stars that were required to find south too. Back home.
Sigh. Hooooome.
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