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Starry Starry Night Vocabulary Flashcards

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What is a day?

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The measurement of a day is the time it takes a planet to rotate once on its axis. Earth rotates once every 23 hours 56 miniutes.

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What is the Celestial Sphere?

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It is not noticible with the naked eye. It is useful to think of the stars as “painted” on the interior wall of a large sphere with Earth in the middle.

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What is a month?

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The time it takes for the moon to revolve once around the Earth. It takes 29.5 days.

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What is the North Celestial Pole?

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The point at which the sky seems to rotate around.

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What is the Ecliptic?

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It is the apparent path of the Sun across the sky.

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What is a Zenith?

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A point directly overhead of the observer.

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What is the Celestial Meridian?

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An imaginary line through the sky from south to north and through the observer’s zenith. It divides the sky into two parts.

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What is the celestial equator?

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The Earth’s equator projected into space. This seperates the sky into a northen and southern hemisphere.

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What is the horizon?

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The apparent meeting of the sky and Earth. The horizon line way off in the distance marks the limit of a point of view.

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