# Which way does the Earth tilt? [closed]

On which side does the earth tilt to? I have tried figuring it out myself but I can't seem to find the answer.

• Your question is a bit vague. The North Pole points towards the North star, Polaris. The plane of the equator is (currently) tilted by 23°26′12.0″ relative to the Earth's orbital plane. There's a diagram in my answer here which may be helpful. – PM 2Ring Oct 12 '20 at 23:40
• If we call the ecliptic the "floor" then Earth's north pole tilts towards Orion. See commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AxialTiltObliquity.png or slittlefair.staff.shef.ac.uk/teaching/phy115/session2/sunMotion/… voting to keep open in this case because I think the OP needs some assistance first, before they can refactor the question sufficiently In this case an answer would do the job better than a bunch of comments, and closing blocks answers – uhoh Oct 13 '20 at 17:38
• Hi @Jackson, would an answer like "towards the constellation of Orion" make sense to you? Is that the kind of answer you are looking for? Others are having trouble with your question because right now they are probably thinking "Tilted with respect to what?" There are several coordinate systems but none are absolute, so we always need a reference system. Can you think about "Tilted with respect to what?" a bit? Thanks and Welcome to Stack Exchange! – uhoh Oct 13 '20 at 17:38

• +1 I wish I could find a photograph of an old transparent celestial sphere globe with the ecliptic horizontal and a small earth at the center, tilted. I further wish that it were high-enough resolution that one could see Earth tilting towards Orion. I wish for world peace and for all my SE reputation to change 1:1 for bitcoin, but that's beside the point. – uhoh Oct 13 '20 at 22:40