Unusual Stars
Telescopes and Lenses
Star Characteristics
Constellations
Other
100
_______ is the name of the star that seems to be blinking
Algol
100
He invented lenses
Roger Bacon
100
True or False, Stars move
True
100
Greeks used to use constellations to what
navigate their ships
100
This geological feature in England may have been used as an observatory to view the sun at summer or winter solstices
Stonehenge
200
_____ are one of the most mysterious and unusual objects in space
Black Holes
200
This man invented telescopes
Hans Lipperhey
200
Name one of the 2 types of motion
What is proper motion of radial motion
200
Name 3 constellations
Answers may vary
200
Wat is the term given to a false halo of orange or yellow surrounding a white object
chromatic aberration
300
_______ are among the brightest objects known
Quasars
300
The scientific name for the light-gathering lens of a telescope
the objective lens
300
If a star is blue and another star is red, the blue star has a higher ______ than the red star
temperature
300
The star Betelgeuse is in this constellation
Orion
300
How much does the concave single-peice mirror in the Hale telescope weigh
16 tons
400
The star Algol is acctually 2 stars doing what?
rotating around eachother
400
The scientific name for the magnifying lens of a telescope
the ocular lens
400
What is the unit of measurement used to measure the distance between stars and earth
light years
400
What did people in the old days say that the constellation Orion looked liked
a man with a club and a cow with long horns
400
The Hubble Space Telescope is an_____ as well as a _______telescope
optical and nonoptical
500
Give an example of a Cepheid variable (a star that actually gets larger and smaller)
Delta Cephei
500
Where is the largest refractor telescope in the world
Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wisconsin
500
The star Betelgeuse is what type of star
a supergiant
500
This man's syatem is still used today to identify stars within a particular constellation
Johann Bayer
500
Name the star sizes in order from smallest to largest
dwarfs, giants, supergiants
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