Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!wales From: wales@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: What's the North Star on the moon? Message-ID: <1307@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 14:00:09 EDT Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.1307 Posted: Fri Sep 21 14:00:09 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 06:38:41 EDT Organization: UCLA CS Dept. Lines: 18 If I were on the moon, where would the north and south celestial poles be? What is the rate of precession on the moon (if it's at all signif- icant)? Same set of questions for Mars too. I started thinking about this question after reading a Hal Clement short story ("Mistaken for Granted", I believe it was -- unfortunately, my SF collection is at home, but my terminal is at my office) in which the main character (an Earthling) got hopelessly lost on the moon because he subconsciously assumed that he would be going due north if he followed Polaris. -- Rich Wales UCLA Computer Science Department 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, CA 90024 // (213) 825-5683 ARPA: wales@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA UUCP: ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!wales