Fletcher Photos - Constellation Ursa Minor
Ursa Minor , "The Little Dipper"
photo © Bill and Sally Fletcher
(Kodak Pro 400 PPF - 6 x 7 cm medium format camera w/ 90mm lens - 2 negatives stacked)
- The stars of the night sky have been divided and mapped since ancient times. The results of this mapping are the imaginative shapes and legends of the constellations.
This photo of the constellation Ursa Minor , better known as The Little Dipper clearly shows the main "naked eye" stars that make up the shape of "the dipper" - enlarged in their true color.
The Little Dipper, is most famous for being host to the pole star in our sky, Polaris. Polaris is the bright star at the end of the dipper's handle. The entire sky in the northern hemisphere appears to rotate around this star since the axis of the spinning Earth points toward it. -
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