Exam 1: Charting the Heavens: the Foundations of Astronomy

What are the minimum and maximum values for declination in the sky for both north and south?

Which star shows the least motion in the northern sky over the course of an hour?

The parallax shift for all stars is very small.

Like latitude on Earth, in the sky is measured in degrees north and south of the equator.

Compare hours of right ascension to time zones on the Earth.

The star Thuban in Draco

There is a solar eclipse of some kind every new moon.

If Scorpius is now prominent in the summer sky, in 13,000 years it will be best seen

Into how many constellations is the celestial sphere divided?

The apparent annual path the Sun takes through the sky is called the _ _.

One of the requirements of the Scientific Method is that an experiment must be .

Increasing the baseline will increase the parallax angle.

If the Moon rises at sunset, then its phase must be

You note that a particular star is directly overhead. It will be directly overhead again in

If the Moon is on the ecliptic, new, and at its farthest distance from Earth, we will get a(n) eclipse.

From the horizon to the observer's zenith is an angle of

The closest terrestrial analog to hours of right ascension is angle of longitude.

In an annular eclipse,

In general, the brightest star in a given constellation is designated as alpha.

At the equinoxes, the declination of the Sun must be zero degrees.