Someone asked me about “Kutab Sitara”? Which star is “Kutab Sitara”?
Can anyone help me to answer? how can we find that on Sky?
Re: Kutab Sitara
North Star ..
for more and where to find it in the sky, read ..
Just take a look at the Alaska State Flag:
you will find out how to locate the North Star …or Kutub Sitara:
kutab Sitara AKA Pole star is a star which is aligned with Earth's axis of rotation, hence appear stationary on sky. It changes over longer period of time (Talking about hundreds & hundreds of years here).
Polaris (AKA North Star) is pole star for Northern direction and is visible from naked eye. Octantis is for the Sothern direction.
Re: Kutab Sitara
maybe I'm not reading quite right but does that mean that kutab sitara is NOT what is commonly referred to as the North Star?
Re: Kutab Sitara
Yes infact there are two of them. Polaris AKA North star is much brighter and is being used for navigation since old times. Over time it became synonyms for Qutab Sitara, which factually is not correct.
Re: Kutab Sitara
New urdu word for my vocabulary
Re: Kutab Sitara
kutab sitara is same one which is called the dum daar sitara :p