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In Disney's 'Moana,' the characters navigate using the stars—an astronomer explains how these methods work
With "Moana 2" out now, I am excited to see even more astronomy on the big screen ... and I teach visitors at my shows to use the "pointer stars" in the bowl of the Big Dipper to find it.
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Characters in Disney’s ‘Moana’ use the stars just like real Polynesian explorers. An astronomer explains how
With “Moana 2” out now, I am excited to see even more astronomy on the big screen ... and I teach visitors at my shows to use the “pointer stars” in the bowl of the Big Dipper to find ...
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Explore the Big Dipper this winter
Amateur astronomy can seem ... the appropriately nicknamed Pointers, and extending it away from the bowl’s opening will lead you to Polaris, the famous North Star. Polaris is the brightest ...
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Motions of the sun and moon
While the planets model shows the Earth orbiting the sun, this model shows the perspective from Earth: the sun circles the sky once per year as projected on the background of the stars ... The "line ...
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In Disney’s ‘Moana,’ the characters navigate using the stars, just like real Polynesian explorers − an astronomer explains how these methods work
With “Moana 2” out now, I am excited to see even more astronomy on the big screen ... and I teach visitors at my shows to use the “pointer stars” in the bowl of the Big Dipper to find ...
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In Disney's 'Moana,' The Characters Navigate Using The Stars, Just Like Real Polynesian Explorers − An Astronomer Explains How These Methods Work
In the northern sky, you can follow the 'pointer stars' in Ursa Major/The Big Dipper ... made this movie for being so careful to show the astronomy of navigation correctly.