21. The survey was originally meant to cover the sky from the north celestial pole to-24?declination. 22. The top two stars in the Sadr and Deneb, point to the north celestial pole of Mars. 23. It initially emerged from its remote home spending most of its time near the south celestial pole . 24. Its declination of-88?572 233 places it within 1?22 37 " of the South Celestial Pole . 25. Polaris is near the celestial pole for only a small fraction of the 25, 700-year precession cycle. 26. The North point will then be the point on the limb that is closest to the North celestial pole . 27. Similarly, the projections of the Earth's north and south geographic poles become the north and south celestial poles , respectively. 28. The north celestial pole ( NCP ) is the same amount of degrees above due north as your latitude. 29. The former semicircle contains the zenith and is terminated by the celestial poles ; the latter semicircle contains the nadir. 30. Projections of the Earth's north and south geographic poles form the north and south celestial poles , respectively . ]]
