Stars
Vega, Altair, Deneb
What three stars make up the Summer Triangle?
The Sun appears to travel through 12 constellations called the __________.
What is the zodiac?
The Earth's axis is tilted _______ degrees from normal.
What is 23 and 1/2?
Phase of the moon after Full and before Third Quarter.
What is Waning Gibbous?
3.0 x 108 m/s
What is the speed of light?
Four stars make up the Great Square
Alpheratz, Algenib, Markab and __________.
What is Scheat?
The Sun can experience a solar eclipse during this phase of the moon.
What is New?
What is the Earth's Southern most line of latitude the Sun appears directly overhead?
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
The Full moon rises at _________.
What is 6 PM?
The planet Antares is named after.
What is Mars?
An elder statesman located in Ursa minor.
What is Kochab?
The Earth revolves around the Sun on an orbital path called the __________.
What is the Ecliptic.
A line running through Greenwich, England
What is the Prime Meridian?
The moon rotates once about its axis every __________.
What is 27 days?
The super massive blackhole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
What is Sagittarius A*
The name of the brightest star in the constellation Baa or the wicked witch of the west.
What is Alphabaa
Earth's farthest point from the Sun is called __________.
What is Aphelion?
Eclipse that occurs when Earth's shadow falls on the moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
The moon is inclined to the ________ about 5 degrees.
What is the Ecliptic?
If you began to fall into a blackhole, you would begin to experience this.
What is spaghettification?
Draco ends in two bright stars called
What are Eltanin and Rastaban?
The distance from the Sun to Earth.
What is an AU?
26,000 years
How long does it take Earth's axis to rotate once through space?
~ 18.6 years
What is the Sauros cycle?
Comes from the Latin word humpbacked
What is Gibbous?