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'''A.''' Using a compass, gyrocompass, or looking at Polaris as a reference for Eastwards or Westwards travel will take the navigator i

...urface the stars in the sky might seem to scroll across the night sky with Polaris at the hub.

...her phenomenon supposed to prove rotundity, is thought to be the fact that Polaris, or the north polar star sinks to the horizon as the traveler approaches t

...the tracker at the North Celestial Pole, located about a degree away from Polaris in the direction of Alkaid, the end star in the Handle of the Big Dipper o

...is position from the North Pole, the heliocentrist will say "we don't see Polaris move because the stars are trillions of miles away" ... yet that counter-a ...to the CMBR dipole. This includes, radio (Jain & Ralston 1999) and optical polarizations (Hutsem ́ekers 1998; Hutsem ́ekers & Lamy 2001; Jain et al. 2004),