polar star
Navigator's fixed point
The polar star is a star positioned near a celestial pole, appearing nearly stationary while other stars rotate around it.
In the Northern Hemisphere, this is Polaris, which has guided navigators for centuries.
Figuratively, a polar star is any fixed guiding principle: Justice was the polar star of her career.
- lodestarCelestial navigation reference
- PolarisCelestial north marker
- cynosureCenter of attention
- Ursa MinorNorthern circumpolar constellation
- navigationDetermining position and course
celestial · Little Dipper · sky · axis mundi · guide · astrolabe · astronomy · night · constancy · latitude · mariner · ancient mariners · hemisphere · Dipper · indigenous knowledge · bearing · sailor · voyager
- astronomy termseclipse, solar eclipse, lunar eclipse, meteor shower, galaxy
- celestialsun, moon, stars, planet, planets
- starsstars, Sirius, Polaris, sol, sun
- sky loresun worship, sky gods, solar deities, zodiac, Milky Way
celestial fixedness/motion
polar starwandering star
Heavenly body that moves
planet · comet · shooting star · meteor · Mercury
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