Legends
What is Capricorn?
With binoculars you can see the four largest _______ of Jupiter
What are moons?
Brightest star in the sky
What is Sirius
There are this many constellations in the sky
What is 88
The meaning of Zodiac is....
What is the belt of the heavens
Zeus placed Callisto in the night sky as one of these animals; her son Arcturus was her keeper in the stars
What is a Bear?
Polaris is important for Navigators because...
What is it always leads them North
What constellation holds the brightest star in the sky?
What is Canis (dog)
The brightness of stars vary because of....
What is Age and distance
This constellation's second-brightest star Shaula is also known as the Stinger
What is Scorpio?
This constellations legend is that Arcas and Callisto were changed into bears and placed into the sky by Zeus in order to protected from his jealous wife Hera
What is Ursa minor?
This constellation holds the Big Dipper in it.
This is the name of the North Star
What is Polaris
The brightness of stars are ranked how?
What is Apparent magnitude
The star Arcturus is known as the bear guard because it guards this constellation
What is Ursa Major?
This constellation is associated with being the Greek God Zeus' pet eagle
What is Aquila?
This constellation's head is known as the sickle.
What is the Leo?
Polaris is a part of this constellation
What is Ursa Minor
There are ______ zodiac constellations
What is 12
An exquisite double star is part of the urn or pitcher in this constellation
What is Aquarius?
This constellation is an invisible unicorn. Modern scholars think that the unicorn originated from a mistaken description of the indian rhinoceros.
What is Monoceros?
Azimuth is....
What is determines the direction of the celestial body?
You can measure this by measuring the distance in degrees between your object and the North Star.
The main circumpolar constellations are....
What is Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Draco, Ursa Major, and Ursa Minor
Name the 5 planets you can see in the night sky
What is Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
This constellation is a large and prominent constellation in the northern hemisphere's winter sky, between Aries to the west and Gemini to the east.
What is Taurus?