What is "north star"

North \North\, a. Lying toward the north; situated at the north, or in a northern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the north, or coming from the north.

North following. See Following, a., 2.

North pole, that point in the heavens, or on the earth, ninety degrees from the equator toward the north.

North preceding. See Following, a., 2.

North star, the star toward which the north pole of the earth very nearly points, and which accordingly seems fixed and immovable in the sky. The star [alpha] (alpha) of the Little Bear, is our present north star, being distant from the pole about 1[deg] 25', and from year to year approaching slowly nearer to it. It is called also Cynosura, polestar, and by astronomers, Polaris.

"Pole Star, Polaris," Middle English norþe sterre (late 14c.); cognates: Middle Dutch noirdstern, German nordstern.

"North Star" is the sixty-first episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the ninth episode of the third season. It first aired on November 12, 2003 on UPN. The episode was written by David A. Goodman and directed by David Straiton.

Set in the 22nd century, the series follows the adventures of the first Starfleet starship Enterprise, registration NX-01. In this episode, the crew of the Enterprise discover a lost colony of humans in the Delphic Expanse. The colony originated from a wagon train from the American Old West in the 1860s which was abducted as slave labor by an alien race called the Skagarans. The humans overthrew the Skagarans and now treat them as second class citizens.

Goodman wrote the episode after he was set a challenge by executive producer Rick Berman, and wrote in references to the 1940 film Santa Fe Trail and The Original Series episode " Spectre of the Gun". The episode was mostly filmed on the Western town set nicknamed "Six Points Texas" at the Universal Studios lot. Critical response to the episode was mixed, but the ratings held steady from the previous episode with a 2.6/4% share.

North Star is the prominent star that lies closest in the sky to the north celestial pole, and which appears (approximately) directly overhead to an observer at the Earth's North Pole.

North Star may also refer to:

North Star was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York by abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The paper commenced publication on December 3, 1847 and ceased as the North Star in June 1851 when it merged with Gerrit Smith's Liberty Party Paper (based in Syracuse, New York) to form Frederick Douglass' Paper. The North Star's slogan was "Right is of no Sex—Truth is of no Color—God is the Father of us all, and all we are Brethren."

The North Star was a passenger train operated by Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) along the "Hiawatha Corridor" during the late 1970s and early- to mid-1980s. It originally operated as a Chicago, Illinois– Duluth, Minnesota, train via Saint Paul, Minnesota, but was soon converted to a Saint Paul–Duluth local. The service relied in part on funding from the state of Minnesota.

North Star is a 1996 action- Western film starring James Caan, Christopher Lambert and Catherine McCormack. Directed by Nils Gaup, it was written by Sergio Donati and loosely based on Henry Wilson Allen's 1956 Western novel The North Star. Lambert executive produced the film.

North Star is a derelict wooden horse-drawn icebreaker built in 1868 and was used to clear a way through the ice when the canals were frozen.

It is now owned by the Black Country Living Museum, where it is based and can be seen dockside in the Lord Ward’s Canal Arm at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley.

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North Star is a studio album by Curved Air and was released on 17 March 2014. It was the first studio album of mostly new material since the band reformed in 2008, following 2008's Reborn (mostly re-recordings of material from their first five albums, with two new tracks), 2010's Retrospective (a "best-of" anthology of original recordings from 1970-1976 plus three tracks by MASK) and 2012's Live Atmosphere (live performances from 2010/11).

North Star is an organization for believing LGBT Mormons. Its stated mission is to "provide a place of community for Latter-day Saints who experience homosexual attraction or gender identity incongruence, as well as their family, friends, and ecclesiastical leaders." It supports the teaching of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including the law of chastity, which prohibits sexual relationships outside of a legal marriage between one man and one woman. The organization takes "no official position on the origin or mutability of homosexual attractions or gender identity incongruence", and does not "endorse political causes or join political coalitions, including those officially sanctioned by the [LDS] Church."

North Star holds four yearly evening meetings in Utah at an LDS chapel. The meetings include several speakers and musical numbers with refreshments served afterwards, and are called firesides (separate from, but similar to, LDS firesides). It also sponsors several email discussion groups that focus on several demographics, including youth, young adults, men, married men, couples, married women, survivors of sexual abuse, those with HIV or AIDS, sexual addiction recovery for men, and a group around transgender, intersex, or gender identity issues. In addition to the firesides, North Star sponsors annual conferences, couples retreats, fundraising events, and the Women of Worth conferences for heterosexual women in mixed-orientation marriages. The largest discussion group is the general private Facebook group with hundreds of members.

The organization does not take a position on political issues, but has spoken out against using suicide of gay Mormons to promote personal political agendas. They have also said that heterosexual marriages among some of its members should not be taken as evidence that sexual orientation is chosen or changeable. Evergreen International, a long-standing organization that helped "people who want to diminish same-sex attractions and overcome homosexual behavior," announced that, starting January 1, 2014, it would be absorbed into North Star.

North Star (, also known as Northern Star) is a Israeli teen drama series of the Walt Disney Company, which was produced by Herzliya Studios. The series premiered on Disney Channel in Israel on 30 November 2014. Disney Channel Israel gave the green light for the production of a final second season in February 2015, which was first shown on 6 March 2016. In the series North Star also some actors from the Israeli Disney Channel Original Series Summer Break Stories appear as their characters. The finale of North Star was broadcast on June 16, 2016 by Israeli Disney Channel.

The British Disney Channel produces an adapted under the title The Lodge (working title: North Star), which is to start in September 2016.