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Pro vs. Con(stellation)
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Total Eclipse (of the Heart)
You Spin Me Right Round
Planetary Alignments
100
The 88 regions of the celestial sphere.
What are constellations?
100
The point directly over your head, anywhere on Earth.
What is the zenith?
100
A total solar eclipse can only happen during what moon phase?
What is new moon?
100
Planets move along paths with this shape.
What is an ellipse?
100
The point where an inner planet passes between the Earth and the Sun.
What is inferior conjunction?
200
A familiar pattern of stars that may or may not share a name with a constellation.
What is an asterism?
200
The line from due north, through the zenith, to due south.
What is the meridian?
200
A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon moves through the shadow of this body.
What is the Earth?
200
Objects farther from the Sun move (faster/slower) than objects closer to the Sun.
What is slower?
200
A planet that is as far east or west of the sun as it can get in our sky is said to be at this.
What is greatest elongation?
300
The band of constellations that lies along the ecliptic.
What is the zodiac?
300
The projection of the Earth's equator onto the sky.
What is the celestial equator?
300
The two different parts of the Earth's and Moon's shadow.
What are the umbra (inner part) and penumbra (outer part)?
300
The term for a solar system model where the Sun is in the center.
What is heliocentric?
300
A planet with an orbit larger than the Earth's is called this.
What is a superior planet?
400
The number of astronomical constellations on the zodiac.
What is 13?
400
The apparent path of the Sun, Moon, and planets against the stars.
What is the ecliptic?
400
Of total, partial and annular, the type of eclipse that the moon can never experience.
What is annular?
400
The apparent reversal of the path of a planet against the background stars.
What is retrograde motion?
400
3.26 of these make up one parsec.
What is a light year?
500
A constellation that never sets from the observer's point of view.
What is circumpolar?
500
The angle difference between the ecliptic and the celestial equator.
What is 23.5 degrees?
500
A total lunar eclipse can only occur in this moon phase.
What is full moon?
500
A 360-degree rotation of a planet defines its ___ period.
What is sidereal period?
500
The scientist who developed the laws of planetary motion.
What is Kepler?