Lunar Fun
The phase of the moon you only see at night
What is full moon
24 hours
What is the solar day?
Sailors use the stars to navigate, but my father taught me to watch the appearance of stars to do this for our family survival.
What is planting/harvesting food (agriculture)
Rise in the east , travel across the sky, and set in the west. Repeat.
What is diurnal motion, or 1st Motion, or daily motion
Next to my twin Castor, I am an old orange star. But I am 9 times bigger than your sun and in the top 20 brightest stars in the sky.
Who is Pollux
The term for shrinking moon right after the full moon. .
What is Waning Gibbous
23 hours 56 minutes
What is a sidereal day?
The heavens must be perfect, so everything up there moves in this way.
What is in circular motion at uniform speed.?
Drift east, stop, turn around, drift west, stop, turn around, drift east. Repeat
What is Eastward Drift?
Double Jeopardy: North
Always seeing the man on the moon indicates this type of rotation.
24 hours 49 minutes
What is a lunar day? The time it takes the moon to culminate from one day to the next.
The stars are not the same. Besides different colors, they also look different in this way.
What is magnitude or brightness
I, the Sun, travel only on this path.
What is the ecliptic.
Regulus is my name. I shine 350 times brighter than your sun. You can find me in this constellation.
What is Leo?
Double Jeopardy: The effect the moon's gravity has on Earth
What are TIDES
365.25 days
the time it takes the sun to complete one rotation on the ecliptic.
During the night, if I look west, I see the stars move down. If I look east, I see the stars move up. If I look south, I see the stars move this way.
What is east to west?
The term used to describe a moon phases with a SHRINKING lit area
What is waning
You can find me in the Swan, one of the brightest stars in the summer. I hang out in a triangle with the other superstars Vega and Altair.
What is Deneb?
On this moon colony, we have long days and long nights. Once the sun sets here, we are in the dark for this long!
What is 15 days?
29.5 days
The time for the moon to complete one cycle of phases
I don't understand what I see! Explain to me what combination of circular motion at uniform speed can explain the apparent crazy, complex, erratic movements of the heavenly bodies!
What is Plato's Problem?
Rise east, go up in sky, set west, rise a bit north of east, go a bit higher, set a bit north of east, repeat until Summer Solstice.
What is the Sun's Yearly Altitude and Rising/Setting Cycle
What are Gemini, Auriga (Charioteer), Taurus, Orion, Canis Major, and Canis Minor.