Thread: seeing Polaris
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Old September 6th 04, 10:35 PM
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" Here's another gimmick for finding Polaris during the day: Use a
"Polaris-ing" filter -- more commonly known as a polarizer.

Polaris is 90 degrees (+/- 23 degrees) angularly distant from the Sun.
So it always lies in a patch of sky where Rayleigh-scattered blue light
exhibits maximum polarization. A single, well-oriented polarizing
filter thus squelches the background sky significantly more than it
squelches Polaris.



I will look into this. Sounds interesting