As for the Little Dipper, it is circumpolar â always above the horizon â as far south as the tropic of Cancer (23.5 degrees north latitude). Stars in the Big Dipper via EarthSky Facebook friend Ken Christison. He captured this photo on September 9, 2013.
dwell time (usually uncountable, plural dwell times) (chiefly engineering) The period of time that a system or element of a system remains in a given state. The drone has a dwell time of about six hours when operating from an in-theater airfield. The part needs a total dwell time in the autoclave of 95 minutes. (military) The duty time soldiers have at their domestic home base between foreign deployments.
dwell (up)on (someone or something) 1. To obsessively think or worry about something. Try not to dwell on this rejection, honey. There are plenty of other nice boys you can ask to the dance. 2. To inhabit a particular place or surface. I want to become a scientist and study the creatures that dwell upon other planets. That type of animal dwells exclusively on land. See also: dwell. dwell (up) on someone or something