Astronomy Concepts
Ancient Astronomers
The Math Side of Space
Days & Seasons
Let there be Light!
100
The model of the Universe with the stationary earth at the center
What is the geocentric model?
100
The Father of Modern Astronomy.
Who is Galileo?
100
Einstein's theory of Relativity by the numbers.
E=mc2
100
The measure of one rotation of the Earth on its axis.
What is a Sidereal Day?
100
Light behaves in these two ways?
What are waves and particles?
200
The identified patterns of stars came to be know as this.
What are Constellations?
200
His Mathematical model placed the Sun at the center of the universe.
Who is Copernicus?
200
Newton's 2nd Law describes how the motion of an object is affected by an external force.
F=m*a
200
This "day" accounts for the rotation of the earth on it's axis AND the the 1 degree of movement of the earth in its orbit.
What is a solar day?
200
Refractor, Reflector & Catadioptric
What are the 3 types of telescopes?
300
An imagined crystalline structure centered upon the earth that carries along heavenly bodies with the rotation of the earth.
What is the Celestial Sphere?
300
His theory of general relativity seeks to define the relationship between matter and space.
Who is Albert Einstein?
300
The Speed of Light
What is 300,000 km/hr?
300
The time difference between a solar day and a sidereal day.
What is 4 minutes?
300
Light Gathering, Resolving, and Magnification
What are 3 powers of a telescope?
400
The apparent shift in position of a nearby object when observed from different points of view.
What is a Stellar Parallax?
400
He accurately predicted predicted the observed positions of the planets by proposing elliptical paths for the planets in their orbits around the sun.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
400
The math mathematical relationship between wavelength and frequency.
What is
400
The longest day of the year.
What is the summer Solstice?
400
The change in a wave's frequency (and thus pitch or color) due to relative motion between the wave's source and an observer.
What is the Doppler Effect?
500
A Method of Naming stars that assigns a letter of the Greek Alphabet to each star in a constellation in order of their apparent brightness.
What is the Bayer designation?
500
Danish Astronomer that reject the heliocentric model because he could not measure parallax for any star.
Who is Tycho Brahe?
500
The law of Universal Gravitation
What is
F=G m1 m2 / r2
500
The orbital position when the day and night are equal.
What is the Equinox?
500
The study of electromagnetic Radiation that is spread-out by a prism according to its wavelength?
What is Spectroscopy?