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which way is north in space?	by schneigl	2006-11-19 12:55:59
a more important and harder to answer question:	by pSYCHOi3OY	2003-12-19 12:30:04
You don't.	by subbywan	2003-12-19 12:40:21
How can you have a north but not a south?	by tigermouse	2003-12-19 14:27:36
Because that's only valid	by subbywan	2003-12-19 14:31:12
That's the way astronomers seem to define it	by tigermouse	2003-12-19 14:53:30
Tis because of two different applications.	by subbywan	2003-12-19 14:57:54
But if you have a network of reference stars	by tigermouse	2003-12-19 15:12:57
relative N and S would not change rapidly enough to bother with-they would be valid reference points for millenia. Additionally, merely referencing galactic center would not provide enough information for navigation. In a 3-d system, axes are needed for mapping. The gnp-gsp axis is one of these. As it's all going to be Earth-based for many years to come, none of this matters yet. There's certainly not yet any need to "discover" some sort of universal north pole.
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