Stars
The name of the brightest star in the Giraffe
What is Alpha Giraffe?
The North star is located here
Ursa Minor
The Sun appears to travel in this plane throughout the year
What is the Ecliptic?
Earth orbits the Sun in this plane
What is the Ecliptic?
The phase when the moon can't be seen
What is a New Moon?
Right Ascension of a star located at the Vernal Equinox
What is 0 Hr?
Eighty Eight
How many constellations define the celestial sphere?
Distance from the Earth to the Sun
What is 1 AU?
The Northernmost Latitude where the Sun will be at a 90 degree elevation
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
The phase between First Quarter and Full Moon
What is Waxing Gibbous
The current North Star
What is Polaris?
The five classical Northern circumpolar constellations
What are Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Cassiopeia, Cepheus and Draco the Dragon?
The Sun is at is farthest point north during this time
What is the Summer Solstice?
What causes the seasons on Earth?
What is the Axial Tilt?
The phase when there could be a Solar Eclipse
What is a New Moon?
The North Star when the pyramids were built
What is Thuban?
The Sun travels through these twelve constellations in the course of a year
What is the Zodiac?
The Earth is closest to the Sun at this point
What is Perihelion?
The North Star at a 38 degree elevation
What would an observer at 38 degrees North see?
The cycle that describes when eclipses occur
What is the Sauros Cycle?
The closest star to the Earth
What is Sol or the Sun?
The Vernal Equinox occurred here in 250 BC
What is Aries?
The Sun appears to travel from the Southern Hemisphere to the Northern Hemisphere on this day
What is the Vernal Equinox
Proposed three cyclical cycles to explain periodic variations in Earth's climate
Who is Milankovitch?
Why we don't experience an eclipse every month
What is the moon is tilted WRT the Ecliptic?