Telescopes
Stars
Stars/Galaxies
Astronomy
Astronomy-2
100
Chromatic Abberration
What is not a desirable feature of a telescope?
100
88
What is the amount of modern constellations?
100
Light Year
What is the distance that light travels in one year is?
100
Stonehenge
What is the name of the structure in England noted for its huge stones arranged in a circular pattern?
100
Galaxy
What is a group of millions stars?
200
Reflectors
What are telescopes that use mirrors to collect incoming light called?
200
Alpha Lyra
What is the brightest star in the constellation Lyra according to Bayer's system?
200
Spiral
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
200
Celestial Equator
What is the plane of the earth's equator projected into the sky?
200
Dark Nebulae
What is a nebulae that can be observed when they block the light from more distant stars called?
300
Honeycomb mirrors, Segmented mirrors and Computer-Controlled mirror actuators.
What are modern advances in telescope design that include the above?
300
celestial equator, declination and right ascension
What is used to find a star's location using celestial coordinates?
300
Job
What is the Bible first mention of constellations?
300
Cepheid Variable
What is a star that changes in brightness because it expands and contracts regularly is called?
300
Quasars
What are unusual, distant, rapidly moving objects that do not readily fit into the standard theories of the universe called?
400
Equatorial Mount
What is a tyupe of telescope mount that allows the viewer to follow a star with only one telescope motion is the...?
400
Canopus, +0.7
What is the brightest star according tho their apparent magnitudes? Canopus, +0.7, Deneb, + 1.3, Lacaille 9352, +7.4 or Barnard's Star, +9.6
400
HST- Hubble Space Telescope
What instrument has done more to reveal the magnificence of the heavens?
400
Supernova
What is a star that explodes and sometimes leaves behind a neutron star?
400
Radio waves, infared rays, ultraviolet rays, x-rays or gamma rays.
What is other kinds of radiation that stars emit?
500
Refractor telescopes
What is a telescope that uses lenses called?
500
Distance from the earth
What else may affect a star's apparent magnitude?
500
Blue(Violet)
What color are the hottest stars?
500
Star cluster
What is several stars in a group with the same motion are called?
500
Super giant
What is 500 times larger than the sun called?
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