Constellations
Third largest constellation in the sky.
What is the Great Bear?
Specifies the angle, in degrees, above the horizon.
What is altitude?
Coordinates north or south of Celestial equator.
What is declination?
Has the longest day of the year.
What is the Summer solstice?
Part of the Great Bear.
What is the Big Dipper?
The most famous seasonal constellation.
What is Orion the Hunter?
Specifies the horizontal directions of North, South, East or West.
What is azimuth?
Coordinates east or west of the ecliptic.
What is right ascension?
Has the shortest day of the year.
What is the winter solstice?
Part of Ursa Minor, the Little Bear.
What is the Little Dipper?
Contains the North Star, Polaris.
What is the Little Bear?
Imaginary point directly above your head in the night sky.
What is the zenith?
The path of the Sun through the sky.
What is the ecliptic?
Day and night are equal on March 21.
What is the Vernal equinox?
Orion's sword.
What is Orion the Hunter?
Represents a woman sitting in a chair.
What is Cassiopeia the Queen?
Imaginary point directly below you in the night sky on Earth's other side.
What is the nadir?
A person who observes the stars at night.
What is a stargazer?
Day and night are equal around 21 September.
What is the Autumnal equinox?
The W asterism.
What is Cassiopeia the Queen?
Contains the star Arcturus.
What is Bootes, the Herdsman?
The imaginary sphere where all the stars are.
What is the Celestial sphere?
The equator projected out into space.
What is the celestial equator?
The degree of the Earth's tilt or inclination.
What is 23.5 degrees?
The teapot.
What is Sagittarius the Archer?