Orion and the constellation named for this creature are engaged in an endless battle across the sky.
What is Scorpio (scorpion)?
100
This is the name of the device that shows you the stars in the planetarium.
What is the starball?
100
This constellation is known as The Great Square.
What is Pegasus?
100
Looking at the Pleides, you had perfect vision if you could see this many stars in Ancient Greece.
What is seven?
200
This star is found by following the side of the Big Dipper. It is also circumpolar (it never sets).
What is the North Star (Polaris)?
200
This man was a medicine man who worked with snakes.
Who is Ophiuchus?
200
This is the name of the red and blue lights that we use to show light pollution.
What are the coves?
200
Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Bellatrix make up part of this hunter's constellation.
What is Orion?
200
We have special telescopes here that allow us to look at this object in the sky that made Galileo go blind.
What is the sun?
300
This star is the eye of Taurus.
What is Aldebaran?
300
His man was Cassiopeia's husband and Andromeda's father.
Who is Cepheus?
300
This is the imaginary line that we can bring up, showing the path that the sun and the planets follow because of the orbit of the Earth around the sun.
What is the ecliptic?
300
This constellation is the swan in the Milky Way.
What is Cygnus?
300
These are the four different planetarium shows tonight (one is doubled, so name three).
What is What's Up in the Sky, Mythology, and Technology?
400
This star is the dot of the question mark, Leo.
What is Regulus?
400
This sea monster was killed by Perseus to save Andromeda.
What is Cetus?
400
Our planetarium can show you four pictures connecting the stars in the constellations. These include Orion, Taurus, Scorpio, and this constellation, which appears upside down half of the year.
What is Cassiopeia?
400
This constellation is shaped like a teacup.
What is Sagittarius?
400
Our biggest telescope here on campus is this many inches in diameter.
What is 24?
500
These three stars make up what is known as the Summer Triangle.
What are Vega, Alter, and Deneb?
500
This giant boat in the sky carried heroes such as Jason and Hercules.
What is the Argo?
500
Our planetarium can show you a lot, but we're missing these two planets.
What are Uranus and Neptune?
500
This constellation is the dragon that snakes around the sky.
What is Draco?
500
The North Star (Polaris) rotates around this number on the meridian when we change the night sky.
What is 40 (degrees, because we are at 40 degrees latitude)?