<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (March 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (March 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> The north and south celestial poles are the two imaginary points in the sky where the Earth's axis of rotation, indefinitely extended, intersects the celestial sphere . The north and south celestial poles appear permanently directly overhead to an observer at the Earth's North Pole and South Pole, respectively . As the Earth spins on its axis, the two celestial poles remain fixed in the sky, and all other points appear to rotate around them, completing one circuit per day (strictly, per sidereal day). </P> <P> The celestial poles are also the poles of the celestial equatorial coordinate system, meaning they have declinations of + 90 degrees and − 90 degrees (for the north and south celestial poles, respectively). </P>

Where would you have to be to see the north celestial pole directly overhead