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Originally Posted by Jeff Root
Indicates both that it is visible in winter mornings but not visible
in winter evenings. So it can't be circumpolar.
-- Jeff, in Minneapolis
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Sheesh, I overlooked that
. I did't even think of the possibility because even if the Big Dipper is always visible to me here, I wouldn't consider it an Autumn Constellation - it sits low in the Northern sky and its has its heyday in spring, while the autumn zenith is ruled by Cassiopeia and Perseus.
In fact, my comment was quite innocent and trivial - it just referred to the fact that in spring at 5 in the morning you are seeing what you would consider a late summer/autmn sky in the evening.