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Altitude and Azimuth
Astrolabe
North Star
Star Maps
Astronomical distances
100
The angular distance of an object from the horizon.
What is Azimuth?
100
Year of the true astrolabe
What is 400 A.D?
100
The atmosphere in which you can see the northern star.
What is the northern atmosphere?
100
Animal on one of the star map pictures.
What is a Unicorn?
100
Distance that is over 5 trillion miles.
What is a light year?
200
The distance an object appears above the horizon
What is altitude?
200
The year it was created
What is 200 bc?
200
A symbol similar to the north star.
What is a compass rose?
200
Number of constellations.
What is 88?
200
The time that sunlight takes to reach Earth.
What is about 10 minutes?
300
Type of airborne object that uses altitude to navigate
What are planes?
300
Used an Astrolabe to navigate their way.
Who is Columbus?
300
Another name for the North Star
What is Polaris?
300
How astronomers divided them
What are grids?
300
The acronym of Meters per second.
What is MPS?
400
The direction, by convention, that azimuth is measured along the horizon.
What is East?
400
The shape of an astrolabe.
What is a circle with smaller circles in it?
400
The distance you would have to extend a line through the axis that the earth spins on,to get to the north star
What is over 300 light years?
400
The time of day that star maps are most useful
What is Night time?
400
The number of Kilometers of a light year
What is 9.5 trillion?
500
The clock time after noon
What is PM or Post Meridiem?
500
The use of an astrolabe
What is to tell time, Navigate, and to tell the location that the sun or stars were in?
500
the brightest star located closest to the NCP, to a casual observer it appears not to move in the sky
What is North star (Polaris)
500
The animal that shares a name with a star
What is peacock?
500
The acronym of an astronomical unit.
What is AU?