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1 | | What is the celestial sphere? |
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2 | | What is a constellation? |
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3 | | What is the zodiac? |
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4 | | What is the ecliptic? |
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5 | | What causes the seasons? |
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6 | | When it is winter in Australia, what season is it in New York? Is it April in Paris? |
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7 | | Where on the celestial sphere would you look for the planets? |
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8 | | How long does it take the Moon to go through a cycle of phases? |
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9 | | Sketch the path on the sky that a planet makes when undergoing retrograde motion. |
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10 | | Will a planet in retrograde motion rise in the east or west? |
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11 | | If you see a bright "star" in the sky, how could you tell whether it is a star and not, for example, Venus? |
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12 | | Describe the major astronomical contribution(s) of the following in a sentence or two for each: Aristotle, Aristarchus, Eratosthenes, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton. |
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13 | | What is meant by the phrase angular diameter? |
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14 | | If you triple your distance from an object, what happens to its angular size? |
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