| 21. | The survey was originally meant to cover the sky from the north celestial pole to-24?declination.
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| 22. | The top two stars in the Sadr and Deneb, point to the north celestial pole of Mars.
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| 23. | It initially emerged from its remote home spending most of its time near the south celestial pole.
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| 24. | Its declination of-88?572 233 places it within 1?22 37 " of the South Celestial Pole.
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| 25. | Polaris is near the celestial pole for only a small fraction of the 25, 700-year precession cycle.
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| 26. | The North point will then be the point on the limb that is closest to the North celestial pole.
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| 27. | Similarly, the projections of the Earth's north and south geographic poles become the north and south celestial poles, respectively.
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| 28. | The north celestial pole ( NCP ) is the same amount of degrees above due north as your latitude.
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| 29. | The former semicircle contains the zenith and is terminated by the celestial poles; the latter semicircle contains the nadir.
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| 30. | Projections of the Earth's north and south geographic poles form the north and south celestial poles, respectively . ]]
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