... sense the slow rotation of the sphere, carrying the stars across your field of view from east towest, and slinging them underneath you on the other side of the Earth. The apparent daily movement of ... of the sky is, of course, due to the rotation of the Earth, not the sky, and we know that the starsare not all at the same distance, as they would be if they werefixed to the inner surface of ... Alkaid, the last star of the handle away from the dipper cup, lies about twice as far awayas Dubhe, the uppermost of the two stars in the outer edge of the cup. In the mind’s eye, we see the stars...