Some Introduction about The Orkney Jewellery
It is more than 50 yrs since Orkney begun making cute jewellery. The initial styles were viewed as unusual jewellery during that time. So Orkney jewelers have been completely on the cutting edge of custom jewellery for over five decades now. At one time, Celtic and Mackintosh motifs were in addition regarded cutting edge and radical: but through the years they have become more main stream so that they are not any longer classed as unusual jewellery.
One of the more unusual jewellery items is considered the North Star collection. There exists a great collection of designs, ranging from a classic bracelet to the pendant, necklace and three types of earrings. These products of cute jewellery can be found in gold or silver. Gold pieces should be ordered ahead of time as they are made to order. Whichever you decide on will be stylish and contemporary. Shining clear and bright, the North Star is a huge leading light for centuries for navigators and stargazers: the most important star in the night sky. Clear, crisp modern lines accentuate the classic proportions of the design, suggesting sparkling points and curves of light.
The North Star is known as a pole star, also known as called Polaris. This simply means it is usually seen and it is approximately aligned with the Earth's axis of rotation. What this means is it is viewed immediately over the North Pole. Orkney, where our unusual jewellery is made, may seem quite some distance north to most of the United Kingdom, but we're a considerable way south of viewing the North Star precisely overhead.
The south celestial pole doesn't possess a bright star like Polaris to mark its place. At the moment, the nearest star observable to the naked eye will be the faint Sigma Octants, which is also known as being the South Star.
As we said previous, Polaris is absolutely useful for navigation - principally so in the days before we got GPS. While many other stars' apparent position in the sky change during the night time, as they appear to rotate all around the celestial poles; the pole stars' apparent positions remain essentially fixed. This makes them specifically helpful in celestial navigation: they really are a reliable indicator of the direction toward the respective geographic pole however is not exact; they are almost fixed, and their angle of elevation may also be used to work out latitude.
It is actually a handy survival tool for determining direction without having a compass. Visible via the surface of the Earth through clear nights, a lot of people can easily find the North Star should they have to.
In olden days finding this lodestar was fundamental to navigating long distances through the wilderness. The beauty of utilizing the North Star for navigation is the fact unlike a magnetic compass the North Star continually points to true north. There is no magnetic declination to cope with.
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Nevertheless, pole stars do seemingly drift through the entire star field. So they aren't completely fixed. They actually do move around in relation to other stars.
By chance, a yacht named North Star was destroyed off the coast on the isle of Cava in Scapa Flow in Orkney in 1931.
Orkney was settled by the famous Norse, or in earlier days, Vikings, from the 8th century. The Norse had a lot of myths and legends with regards to the stars. One was called Vidofnir - a cock that is perched upon the highest possible branch of the World Tree. It actually was stated that the Otherworld would have been to the north and down, that will place it at the North Pole; the tree would've had its height at the axis from where the tree rotates, which could mean Vidofnir will probably refer to Polaris, the North Star.
That is one theory and there are many as there are actually few names for stars recorded in Old Norse, which was the language spoken in the islands at the time "The Star" (stjarna) suggested the constellation of the Pleiades, used for winter timekeeping at night.
However, to sailors "The Star" was the "lode-star" that we call the North Star or Polaris these days. Another school of thought would be that the same term might as an alternative refer to Arcturus, the brightest star in the northern hemisphere, that was also termed the "wagon-star" simply because of its nearness to the constellation of The Wagon (Ursa Major).
No matter what Vikings called the North Star it's a bright star at night in Orkney and through the Northern hemisphere, and still handy tools to find direction north of you have no compass.
Unusual jewellery from the Orkney Isles highlighting the North Star certainly makes a breathtaking piece of cute jewellery which will be respected and grabs the attention of those who see it - very much like Polaris.