Charles' Wain

Charles' Wain (or Charles' Wagon) is an older name for the Big Dipper, a group (asterism) of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major in the northern sky. Charles' Wain is mentioned in the story "Polaris" by H. P. Lovecraft, where the unnamed narrator observes the Wagon as it "lumbers up from behind the vapour-soaked swamp trees that sway in the night wind."
Polaris, the current northern pole star, can be located by extending an imaginary straight line through Merak and Dubhe, the two stars in the front of the bowl of the Big Dipper, making it useful for celestial navigation.
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