The firmament of Odysseus: musings on the precession of equinoxes
This paper introduces the precession of the equinoxes in an elementary way and presents a formula for calculating the angle between the star Polaris and the Celestial North Pole over the years.
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/11562/1129647 https://mat.uab.cat/web/matmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/v2024n04.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper introduces the precession of the equinoxes in an elementary way and presents a formula for calculating the angle between the star Polaris and the Celestial North Pole over the years. |
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