What are the Celestial Coordinates of the north poles of (all) bodies in the Solar System? How about Beyond?
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This directory should give you the north polar CC for all the planets out to Pluto; the southern ones should be easy to extrapolate from these figures.\n\nhttp://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html
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If you want the time and date, it's 8:26 AM EDT June 21st and 7:22 PM EST December 21st this year. (Sky & Telescope magazine Almanac 2006)\n\nIf you want to see what they are, put a globe on your table and stand where the North Pole is leaning toward you.  If you (the Sun) look at the globe from the level of the Earth's center, you'll see that the Sun is at its northernmost latitude - The Tropic of Cancer.  That's the summer solstice.  Six months later - on the side where the South Pole points toward you, the Sun is overhead at its most southern latitude - The Tropic of Capricorn.  That's the winter solstice.\n\nIt seems odd, but because of the ellipticity of its orbit the Earth is actually closer to the sun in the Northern winter than it is in the summer - by about 3-4 million miles.  As you can see from the exercise above, though, from the Northern Hemisphere viewpoint the sunlight is very slanted in the winter and more directly overhead in the summer.
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Here is a site where you can find all the needed data.\nhttp://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
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You have to align the mount with the celstial equator.  Essentially, point the axis of the mount up at the North celestial pole.  rather than try that rather difficult stunt directly, find out your latitude.  The North celestial pole will be due north and have an altitude of your latitude above the northern horizon.  If the mount has dec and RA markings, there ought to be some sort of angle measuring device so you can measure the altitude of the axis of the equitorial mount when the mount is level.\n\nYou will also need built in levels or a plumb bob to make sure your telescope is not tilted when you do this.  Finally, you might want to devise some trick to make sure the north south orientation is correct, like lay out a long string that is aligned properly.  You can't just use a compass to do this either, since the north magnetic pole is not at the geographic north pole. The proper GPS device can help with this. Look up "magnetic declination" for more information on finding true north with a magnetic compass.\n\nBest of luck!  Finally, one word of warning:  a good refractor costs a fortune!  You probably should stick to fairly bright objects, or you might be dissappointed.  Also, look for a local astronomy club or local star parties in the newspaper.  Those guys can help you with learning telescope observing a great deal.
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I don't know, but I am now very curious as to where this question comes from. I mean, why those particular angles? And what angles are they anyway? Right ascension expressed in degrees instead of hours? Celestial latitude? And why the extreme precision, specified to within 1/10,000 of an arc second?\n\nAnyway, here is a good web site for showing the sky at any time you like. Now all you have to do is try different times until that alignment appears. What a chore!
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Polaris -- the North Star or polestar, located very near the north celestial pole.  It is the outermost star in the handle of the Little Dipper.  Polaris will be at its closest to the north celestial pole in the year 2102.  It becomes the polestar every 26,000 years.  Due to the earth’s slow wobble, certain stars take turns being the polestar.  A star called Kochab was the polestar from 1500 BC to AD 300.   (2006 minus 300 equals 1,706 years as the current polestar, with 24,294 to go)
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The arrangements in our solar system is(from the Sun):Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto.\nNote:Pluto's orbit isn't similar to ours.\nThe solar system also includes an infinite number of stars, whom biggest is the Sun. There are plenty of Black Holes in the solar system. The gravity pull of the Black Holes are so strong, they can suck in nearby stars.\nThere are also plenty of stars bursting. We call the explosions Supernovas. After the Supernova, the star becomes a White Dwarf. There are also plenty of comets around. Among them, Halley's Comet is one example, passing over earth in 76 years at a time. Its orbit is 18 degrees to the ecliptic.\nHope this is useful and answers ur question!:)
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If you are in the Northern Hemisphere and it is clear out you can use the big dipper to find the North Star (off the outside of the "cup").  If you are in the southern Hemisphere I believe you can use the Southern Cross similarly (points north south).\n\nIf it is near sunrise or sunset and you know roughly what lattitude you are at and what season it is you can get a rought idea of East or West and therefore North and South (for instance if you face West, north is to your right).\n\nObviously if you have GPS or a compass that makes all this much easier (assuming your compass is lit ;) ).\n\nIf it is very clear out you can probably see the Milky Way, and the galactic plane runs roughly North South.\n\nIf you are familar with the night sky and know what time of year it is you could get a rough idea of your lattitude and maybe longitude, and, even if you can't find the North Star or Southern Cross you could find planets and the orbital plane or a familar constallation and figure out the directions.\n\nRealistically if I didn't know where I was I would either go towards light if there was a bright part of the sky (city) or find a creek and fallow it since even if it is dried up, it is likely that it will lead you to a settled area or road and hopefully would have more shade from bushes and more food and water.
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Eastings and Northings are UTM Coordinates (Universal Transverse Mercator). These are different from Longitude and Latitude values that are in the degree, minute, second format. \n\nI found the formulas for ALL conversions here in this .PDF (its a defense document so it is dry reading, but TONS of good info)\nhttp://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/publications/tm8358.2/TM8358_2.pdf\n\nand the software program (free) to do the calculations.\nhttp://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/geotrans/index.html\n\nHere is the main page with all the links on it:\nhttp://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/coordsys/csat_pubs.html\n\nA lot of this LOOKS difficult, but it isn't really. Just take your time and read it carefully. Good luck!
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There are actually an infinite number of answers to this old puzzle.  The traditional answer is of course, "You are at the North Pole."\n\nThis assumes that the walking "1 mile due east" portion is defined as "keeping the north pole directly left of you as you walk", or inversely, "keeping the south pole directly right of you as you walk".  Thus when you walk to the east, you simply make a 1-mile arc about the north pole.\n\nAnother set of infinite answers is "any point 1 + 1 / (2 * pi) miles away from the soth pole".  Following the directions, you will walk one mile toward the south pole, then walk one mile east which will take you *in a complete circle around the south pole*, then one mile back north to your starting position.\n\nFollowing this logic, you can find an infinite number of circles as a solution.  For example, "any point 1 + 1 / (4 * pi) miles away from the south pole" will have the easterly portion of the walk take you completely around the south pole *twice*.  And "any point 1 + 1 / (6 * pi)" will walk you around the south pole three times, etc.
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Dudes, the eqeator or prime meridian do NOT go THROUGH the center of the earth AT ALL!\n\nThe answer is Axis, duh.
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http://www.cosmicordering.net/\nhere ya go.
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Well, this is an interesting lesson in geometry, eh? Since the earth is a sphere (more or less) that rotates on an axis - the N & S points were chosen as the intersecting points for longitudinal lines of measurement - which all go back to the length of a day and segments thereof - as well as 360 degrees which were derived roughly from the concept of a 360 day year (it is actually 365+ but back in time the 360 measurement worked wonders for calculationsand thus it fit into geometry of all kinds .. including the longitudinal slices of the earth in 1 degree increments). If you chose to - you could select another two points each an oposite 90 degrees from the N and S poles (which made sense becauseof the magnetic N and the rotational axis). The other two points would be arbitrary. Somebody would have to mark those spots. A secondary longitudinal series could then overlay the primary longitudinal lines and create a kind of variable grid based on an arbitrary selection of the two secondary points. Actually ONE of those lines would lie on top of one of the primary (current) longitudianal lines and it would be a double use line or a kind of disection of hemispheres.  \nBUT\nIt would not be measuring anything very well because the secondary points are arbitrary and not related to anything else.  \nSO\nThe reason the latitude disectors came into play with their resulting grids over the face of earth'ssphere, was becuase they help measure something.  Since stars, the sun and the moon are  always - based on measured timepieces - in the same place and the same time repeatedly, you could measure the distance above the horizon to a star and figure out how far you were N or S of the equator - a halfway point from N to S.  It became easy this way to use the North Star to detect your position N or S by the angle of THAT star above the horizon becuase it was always amost right on top of the N Pole.  So the slices of LATITUDE N and S were critical to navigation. Once the clock was perfected to hold accurate time within a few seconds a month, the accuracy of E and W postion on earth relative to the stars also became possible.  If people did not need to know were they were on earth (especially ships at sea) there would have been no need for a good grid system.
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Well, given the earth would rotate at 180 m/s and the parcel is traveling north at 1m/s from an overhead view of the earth (with the north pole being central in the picture) you would end up with a spiraled trajectory based on PHI squared. until reaching the north pole then I suppose it would pass that point and continue with yet another spiral southward until eventually you covered the entire planet with some trajectory line.  \n\n  Otherwise it would be a PHI spiral ending in the north pole.
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Your home coordinates are the number of degrees and minutes a direct line from your home to the centre of the earth deviates from the equator and the Grenwich Meridian. There are many ways you can find this out using various maps and things (like the website below).\n\nBut I doubt that there is anyone out there psychic enough to guess it. But I'll give it a try anyway...\n\nN38o59' W77o05'\n\nHow did I go?
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what? further than the earth in relation to the sun, would be mars. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and one we cant quite see yet.\nI'm not sure i understand your ?, but i hope this helps. sometime pluto comes closer than neptune, because of the orbits. click on this link, then scole down the page it brings you to.\nhttp://www.sciencemonster.com/planets.html
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Compass headings are figured in degrees clockwise from north.  First leg was 30 nm heading 270°.  The east/west part of the trip is 30 cos 270 = -30, the north/south part is 30 sin 270 = 0.  Second leg is 10 nm heading 15°.  east/west part is 10 sin 15 = 2.59, north/south part is 10 cos 15 = 9.66.  Add the 2 legs in separate parts.  You are now at a position 9.66 nm north and 27.41 nm west of port.  divide n/s by e/w to get the tangent of the angle: 9.66/27.41 = 0.3524 = tan 19.4°.  If you make a sketch while doing all this, the 19.4° is your reference angle in the northwest quadrant, so the compass heading from port to your position is 289.4°.  You could also write that as N 70.6° W.\n\nBelieve me, this is a whole lot simpler than navigating in 3 dimensions -- 4, actually, because your home planet isn't going to stay where you left it.