Do the stars circle daily around north or south celestial pole?

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2026-05-15 15:20

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First of all, we need to recall that none of this motion is real. It appears to us as if

the stars are circling in the sky, only because the Earth is spinning, carrying us along

with it, and spinning the direction in which our eyes point, once a day.

Unless you happen to be standing on the Earth's equator, you can only see one Celestial

pole ... either the north one or the south one, corresponding to which of the Earth's

hemisphere's you're standing in.

It seems to me that the stars appear to circle bothCelestial poles. If you open

a camera aimed at the night sky, and leave it open for a while, you always get

nice circular arcs traced by the stars. No matter which Celestial pole is visible

in the picture, the arcs of the stars will appear centered at it.

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