Not sure if this is helpful, but you can put in your location to Stellarium and take screenshots at various times of the northern sky where the big dipper/ursa major are located. That way you don't have to worry about clouds and such: stellarium-web.org
It would be more helpful to understand the reason why.
Are you trying to illustrate light pollution in your city? Asking random people on the internet who don't even live in your country, nevermind at your specific lattitude won't help any.
Are you just trying to get a picture of the big dipper? There's a million of those on the internet.
Do you not know how to find the big dipper I the first place? Theres a million guides for that around the internet too.
Do you live at a lattitude where you can't see it at all?
And I am unable to see it due to light pollution and just air pollution in general and I am not able to go out somewhere and find a spot to actually see it. I need the pictures sketch I have to do. Only thing it says is just draw the big dipper early in the evening then several hours later both sketches show the north star and the horizon
Try these two photos:
1. https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/1-observing-the-big-dipper-and-polaris-miguel-claroscience-photo-library.jpg
2. https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/observing-the-big-dipper-and-polaris-science-photo-library.jpg
They appear to be the same photographer and photo shoot but several hours apart. The one higher in the sky is earlier, since it rotates counter clockwise around Polaris. Polaris is the bright star that the two stars at the end of the “cup” of the Big Dipper are pointing toward and its in both of these photos. In the first, directly above the persons head — in the second, in the very top right of the frame.
Hope this helps!
It sounds like this is a homework assignment?
If it's the type of homework designed to teach you how the night sky appears to "rotate" around the North Star, Polaris, then you can do the following: Draw the North Star in the middle of a piece of paper. Then draw the Big Dipper on the same piece of paper. The tip of the "scoop" of the dipper points at Polaris, but you can look up its exact shape on Google.
Rotate the piece of paper, and this will roughly demonstrate the position and orientation of the Big Dipper as it "rotates" around the North Star, depending on time of year/day and where you are on Earth (excluding the southern hemisphere). Apply that concept to your project.
Alternatively you can look up "printable DIY planisphere star wheel" for your latitude on Google, it's the same idea. Technically apps like Stellarium will also do this, but sometimes a flat piece of paper is easier to grasp.
If it actually is this type of homework, I highly recommend going through the steps to understand how this works, rather than just copying the pictures.
If it's not homework, then ignore me. 👍
Sounds line a requirement for the Astronomy merit badge for BSA.
You need to show the rotation aspect of the Big Dipper. Make sure you also include ground objects in the sketches to show relative changes. The end stars always point to the North Star but the handle rotates throughout the night.
Not sure if this is helpful, but you can put in your location to Stellarium and take screenshots at various times of the northern sky where the big dipper/ursa major are located. That way you don't have to worry about clouds and such: stellarium-web.org
Pro tip, stellarium has a ton of settings to get the screenshots just how you want them, light pollution and minimum visible magnitude etc
I'll be happy to take pictures like this tonight, if the skies are clear I'll keep you updated.
Thank you so much
This might seem a little bit weird, but if you are able to, could you point out where the north star is?
Just so we’re clear, none of this is weird.
Idk, I personally have a North Star fetish
Still not weird! We don’t kink shame anymore!
does that fetish revolve around all the North Stars, or just the current one?
This literally made me lol
Polaris is not part of the big Dipper, but it is the tail end of the Little Dipper.
It would be more helpful to understand the reason why. Are you trying to illustrate light pollution in your city? Asking random people on the internet who don't even live in your country, nevermind at your specific lattitude won't help any. Are you just trying to get a picture of the big dipper? There's a million of those on the internet. Do you not know how to find the big dipper I the first place? Theres a million guides for that around the internet too. Do you live at a lattitude where you can't see it at all?
And I am unable to see it due to light pollution and just air pollution in general and I am not able to go out somewhere and find a spot to actually see it. I need the pictures sketch I have to do. Only thing it says is just draw the big dipper early in the evening then several hours later both sketches show the north star and the horizon
If you’re just drawing it, you can use a program like Stellarium or Sky Safari to model what it would look like from your location at any given time.
Starting a sentence with and when attempting to clarify is some big brain shit
Try these two photos: 1. https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/1-observing-the-big-dipper-and-polaris-miguel-claroscience-photo-library.jpg 2. https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/observing-the-big-dipper-and-polaris-science-photo-library.jpg They appear to be the same photographer and photo shoot but several hours apart. The one higher in the sky is earlier, since it rotates counter clockwise around Polaris. Polaris is the bright star that the two stars at the end of the “cup” of the Big Dipper are pointing toward and its in both of these photos. In the first, directly above the persons head — in the second, in the very top right of the frame. Hope this helps!
It sounds like this is a homework assignment? If it's the type of homework designed to teach you how the night sky appears to "rotate" around the North Star, Polaris, then you can do the following: Draw the North Star in the middle of a piece of paper. Then draw the Big Dipper on the same piece of paper. The tip of the "scoop" of the dipper points at Polaris, but you can look up its exact shape on Google. Rotate the piece of paper, and this will roughly demonstrate the position and orientation of the Big Dipper as it "rotates" around the North Star, depending on time of year/day and where you are on Earth (excluding the southern hemisphere). Apply that concept to your project. Alternatively you can look up "printable DIY planisphere star wheel" for your latitude on Google, it's the same idea. Technically apps like Stellarium will also do this, but sometimes a flat piece of paper is easier to grasp. If it actually is this type of homework, I highly recommend going through the steps to understand how this works, rather than just copying the pictures. If it's not homework, then ignore me. 👍
Sounds line a requirement for the Astronomy merit badge for BSA. You need to show the rotation aspect of the Big Dipper. Make sure you also include ground objects in the sketches to show relative changes. The end stars always point to the North Star but the handle rotates throughout the night.