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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
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Subject: Re: Alaskan sky?
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Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 01:54:22 EST
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>> Has anyone noticed the TV commercial by the Alaskan Tourist Bureau (or
>> Agency or something) on the early, 6:30-7:00am, network news shows?
>> It ends up with a sketch of the sky showing the Big Dipper, Polaris and the
>> Moon next to each other.  That might be worth going to Alaska to see.
> 
> Is this possible? I'm not any where near an expert on celestial objects so
> I could be wrong (or maybe the posting is facetious).

Sublety tends to be lost on the net.  The moon is to be found close to the
ecliptic,  that great circle on the sky that the sun also follows (physically
this is the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun). This is near the
celestial equator and nowhere near the north celestial pole where Polaris and
the Big Dipper are to be found.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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