Tag: Navigate using the Stars

For centuries, travelers use the stars to guide them on their journey. How is it possible to know where you are just by looking up the sky? The sky is constantly in motion because we’re in motion. Every day we go spinning around the earth at 800 miles per hour like a giant roller coaster. Now you get the same relative motion if instead of the earth rotating, you have the sky rotating around the earth. This is what you’ll see if you track the night sky. The Earth’s axis…