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.
To help clarify the differences and gain an understanding of dwell time, let me provide the definitions for all three of the factors which appear to affect dwell time. Itâs going to be a bit of basic review at first, so bear with me.