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What is the celestial sphere? |
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What is a constellation? |
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What is the zodiac? |
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What is the ecliptic? |
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What causes the seasons? |
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When it is winter in Australia, what season is it in New York? Is it April in Paris? |
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Where on the celestial sphere would you look for the planets? |
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How long does it take the Moon to go through a cycle of phases? |
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Will a planet in retrograde motion rise in the east or west? |
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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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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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What is meant by the phrase angular diameter? |
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If you triple your distance from an object, what happens to its angular size? |
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