Intro to Astronomy
Constellations
Celestial Sphere
Phases of the Moon
Random
100
The study of celestial bodies including stars, planets, and galaxies.
What is astronomy?
100
He was the hunter.
Who is Orion?
100
A representation of how the sky looks as seen from the Earth
What is the celestial sphere?
100
A banana shape.
What is a crescent?
100
This season happens when the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun.
What is the winter?
200
He was the first one to observe a nova (dying star) and use his observations to prove that the nova was much farther than the Moon.
Who is Tycho Brahe?
200
These constellations are always visible since they revolve around Polaris.
What are circumpolar constellations?
200
This is an extension of the celestial equator
What is the celestial equator?
200
The moon has to be in one of these phases in order for an eclipse to occur.
What is a full moon or a new moon?
200
How we measure angular size and angular distance.
What is degrees, arcminutes and arcseconds?
300
The current theory of how the universe was created.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
300
These are the 5 circumpolar constellations.
What are Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Draco, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia?
300
This is inclined at an angle of 23.5 degrees to the celestial equator
What is the ecliptic?
300
When the light is on the left.
What is waning?
300
This is how we see stars near the south celestial pole move.
What is never?
400
A line drawn from the middle of the planet will sweep out equal areas in equal time intervals making the planet travel faster when closer to the Sun.
What is Kepler's Second Law?
400
She was the queen who was put into the sky by Poseidon.
Who is Cassiopeia?
400
If you are standing at the Earth’s north pole, this will be directly overhead
What is the north celestial pole?
400
The phase that comes after a third quarter moon.
What is a waning gibbous?
400
The reason we have seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
500
The model of the universe where the Earth was at the center and the Sun was between the orbits of Venus and Mars.
What is the Ptolemaic model?
500
List three constellations you can find in relation to Orion.
What are Canis Minor, Taurus, and Gemini?
500
This is how we locate objects on the celestial sphere.
What is right ascension and declination?
500
How often we see a full moon.
What is 27 days?
500
The order of the Sun, Moon and Earth for both a lunar and solar eclipse.
What is Lunar- Sun, Earth, Moon Solar- Sun, Moon, Earth ?
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