The Big Dipper is an old friend to most of us. Poetically, it is spring itself, the season of renewal, right now, when the Dipper is best seen. Go out between 9 and 10 p.m., and you’ll see that it hovers so high in the north, it’s almost overhead.
Where is the Big Dipper?
The Dipper floats forlornly in a dark desolate region of the sky. It’s actually a section of the Great Bear high in the North. This realm lies far from the Milky Way. Hence, the Dipper guides our eyes away from the flat plane... more
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