"C"-elestial Sphere
Azimuth and Height, or Latitude and Longitude
What are Coordinates?
This is the cheapest tool for viewing the night sky
What are eyes?
This type of light pollution comes when a light shines directly in your eyes
What is glare?
Polaris is in this Cardinal Direction
What is North?
Polaris Height of 90
(Specific Landmark)
Where is the North Pole?
The apparent sphere on which all stars and planets appear to sit.
What is the Celestial Sphere?
A refracting telescope uses these to gather and focus the light
What are lenses?
Shining lasers at airplanes is illegal because it does this to pilots.
What is causes blindness?
At noon, the Sun is in this cardinal direction
What is South?
Polaris height of 44
Local Time of 600
GMT of 800
(Body of Water)
Where is the North Atlantic Ocean?
An official grouping of stars
What is a Constellation
The main functions of a telescope are to magnify images and to do this, otherwise you won't see anything.
What is collect light?
A city which produces no light pollution would appear to be this color from above.
What is black?
When driving to California from Massachusetts, this daily event will be in your face.
What is sunset?
Polaris height of 14
Local Time of 300
GMT of 000
(Country)
Where is Yemen?
North, South, East, and West
What are Cardinal Directions?
Dobsonian telescopes are these types of telescopes, and they can't see space vampires!
What is reflecting?
Observatories are placed in remote mountains to get above this type of light pollution
What is skyglow?
To travel east at night, Polaris should be on this side of you.
What is on your left?
Polaris height of -30
Local Time is 1200
GMT is 200
(State)
Where is New South Wales?
The Southern this is the Polaris of the Southern Hemisphere in that it marks true South.
What is "Cross"
A telescope with a larger this has a higher resolution and can see smaller objects farther away.
What is objective lense or objective mirror?
What is aperture?
A total blackout in the 1990s caused residents of Los Angeles to call the police and report these dark clouds in the sky; it was the first time they had ever seen it.
What is the Milky Way galaxy?
When traveling in this direction, sunsets and sunrises will appear longer than normal
What is West?
Polaris Height of 35.03
Local Time is 4:36
GMT of 1200
(Specific Landmark)
Where is The Barringer Crater/ Meteor Crater National :andmark?