Telescope Parts
Used to magnify the image.
What is the eyepiece?
A fixed luminous point in the night sky which is a large, remote incandescent body like the sun.
What is a star?
Light Pollution
What are the excess and unnecessary outdoor lights that prevent us from seeing the night sky.
Two types of telescopes
What are reflective and refracting?
Study of the stars and planets.
What is astronomy?
Usually found attached to the side of the telescope and is used to locate a general area to view before zooming in.
What is the finderscope?
This determines how long a star will live.
What is the mass of a star?
Two things that light pollution affects.
What is human health and patterns of wildlife behavior?
The differences between reflecting and refracting telescopes.
What is reflecting telescopes use concave mirrors to reflect the light while refracting telescopes use convex lens to focus the light
The main thing we look through to study the stars and planets that is part of a CAP STEM kit.
What is a telescope?
Gathers light and the bigger it is, the more light it gathers.
What is the Optical element?
A group of unrelated stars forming man-made images.
What is a constellation?
Light that is most harmful and reduces production of melatonin and is found in these items.
What is blue light and cell phone, computers and LEDs?
The main part of the telescope that tells how powerful it will be.
What is the size and quality of the reflector or primary mirror?
Kits that CAP gives out to squadrons that helps cadets learn about science, math, engineering and technology.
What are STEM kits?
Keeps the telescope steady and helps to stop it from tipping over.
What is the base?
Stars in order from hottest to coolest.
What is blue, blue-white, white, yellow, orange, and red
Binary Star
What is a system of two stars revolving around a common center of gravity?
the difference between revolution and rotation of planets.
What is the orbit of an object around another body verses the turning of an object around its axis?
The person in the squadron responsible for making sure you learn about STEM.
Who is the Aerospace Education Officer?
the difference between the primary mirror and the secondary mirror.
What is what collects the light verses what directs the light towards the eyepiece?
Ecliptic
What is the path of the Sun and planets across the sky
List of things a lack of melatonin can affect.
What is sleep, stress, anxiety, fatigue and headaches?
Universal time or GMT
What is the time at the Prime Meridian in Greenwich England that is the basis for our 24 hour time zone system?
Cadets who have rank and help with AE and STEM lessons can be given this position.
What is the cadet NCO or Officer AE duty position?