It's an incredibly dim star (49th of all visible stars by magnitude), and it's relatively far off the pole. Here (cloudynights.com) you can see the crosshair center is Earths axis, the red dot/arrow is the position of Polaris for that given point in time.
It's an incredibly dim star (49th of all visible stars by magnitude), and it's relatively far off the pole. [Here](https://www.cloudynights.com/uploads/monthly_02_2016/post-255462-0-70184200-1454561204.jpg) you can see the crosshair center is Earths axis, the red dot/arrow is the position of Polaris for that given point in time.
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