an update on my goals

[lurvy_tivo]

random goals that i wanna accomplish before the end of summer:

[  ] go camping
[  ] bake a confetti cake
[  ] learn to wakeboard better
[  ] go to sunsplash
[  ] start running again
[  ] read a book
[  ] get a boba drink from lollicup :3
[  ] watch the stars at night from a moving car (preferably a convertible-ish car)
[  ] get a shake from 5 n' diner
[  ]

Comments

NORTH STAR

[maverick49827]

Method number 1: Find Cassiopeia, which looks like a big letter W (or sigma, depending on how it is oriented), with one branch of the W wider and deeper than the other. The mouths of the two V's in the W will open up in the direction of Polaris. Go about two W-lengths in that direction (sort of but not quite perpendicular to the line that would underline the W) and you are there.

Method number 2: Find Ursa Major, which looks like a big ladle; pretty much everybody recognizes the "Big Dipper" from being taught as a child. Follow the last two stars in the ladle in a straight line going up, about one dipper-length, and it should intersect Polaris almost exactly. This is easier than locating via Cassiopeia if you can do it because Polaris is remarkably close to that line.

An interesting fact: Polaris has not always been the North Star. The Earth precesses (very slowly -- the period is roughly 25,000 years) as well as rotates and revolves around the sun. This is called the "precession of the equinoxes", although it is sometimes mistakenly called the "procession of the equinoxes" (even though the latter makes perfect sense). In A.D. 14000, Vega (in the constellation Lyra) will be the North Star.

Re: NORTH STAR

[lurvy_tivo]

:D thank you! i will try to do that next time i am laying outside (and not inside staring at the computer playing an online game like a geek)