Image:Zirkumpolar ani.gif

Description	zircumpolar_ani
Source	made by me (Flash)
Date	November2006
Author	user:Mjchael
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original text: http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Einführung_in_die_Astronomie:_Sternbilder

(Please correct my spelling! It's made by balblefish and it's rather bad.)

--Mjchael 18:31, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Since former time determined (?) the constellations of the Circumpolar-region were from great importance for geographical orientation. In the animated diagram you see, how to find the polar star, and thus (?how you can find out) the direction the north to determine (? find out) .

• The small car (?German for "Ursa Minor") is not as easy to constitute (? find) as its larger neighbours "large car"(?german for "Ursa Major") and "Cassiopeia", which are to be constituted again relatively easily. (Means: The neighbors Usa Major and Cassiopeia are much easier to find as Ursa Minor)
• The small car (? German for "Ursa Minor") (and concomitantly the polar star) is in for instance in the center between the constellation Cassiopeia and the large car (? German for "Ursa Minor"). (Means: Ursa Minor lays in the middle of Ursa Major and Cassiopeia = first line)
• The "rear box stars" (? the both stars at one end of Ursa Major looks like the front of a small wagon (car?)) of the large car are five times extended, in order to come to the position of the polar star.
• The constellations "small car" (? German for "Ursa Minor"), "kite" (? dragon) and "Cepheus" light up in the animation briefly yellow.

• Circumpolar star
• Talk:Circumpolar star