How to Find the North Star to Navigate

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Part of the video series: How to Navigate Wilderness Areas

Summary: Wilderness survival experts find and use the North Star to navigate wilderness areas. Learn how to find the north star to navigate in the wilderness in this free video on wilderness navigation.

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By John Stewart
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John Stewart is an Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America and has instructed boy scouts on climbing, outdoor skills, pioneering, wilderness survival and kayaking for the past nine...read more

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on 10/1/2009 I just came across this post randomly using Bing so I watched your video on how to find the North Star. Your instructions are incorrect. You mention that if you find the Big Dipper, to follow the handle and that the tip of the handle points to the little dipper and that the little dipper points to the North Star.
Take a look at this diagram ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Finding_polaris.png)
and you can see where you went wrong with your instructions... Thanks.

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"Hi, this is John Stewart and this is how to use the North Star to find north. If you're out lost in the woods and it gets dark, you can easily use the North Star to find your direction. If you wait till the stars come out and they're really bright, the brightest star in the sky always is going to be the North Star. Some nights you might not be able to pick it out as easily because of clouds and other disturbances. But there's other ways to find the North Star. The second easiest way to do this is to find the Big Dipper. Find the Big Dipper, find the handle on it, it points to the Little Dipper. The Little Dipper is then going to point to the North Star. The North Star, like I said is the brightest star in the sky. You're not going to see this star flicker like you do other stars. It's going to stay really really bright. And at that point you can walk in the general direction of that star and it's going to lead you north. It's not going to be direct north but it will get you in a very close direction and you just know you're going to be heading north. And that's how to find north using the North Star."

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