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Transcript
Who designed “geoglyphs”?
Who is credited with the concept of
gravity?
Who was the first to promote the
heliocentric universe?
Oldest astronomical time piece in
existence?
Famous for the invention of telescope?
Telescope that covers 1/3 of the sky and
collects radios waves that is sent to a
receiver.
Telescope that uses MIRRORS?
Telescope that uses LENSES?
Who worked in a great observatory in
Europe and made the most accurate
observations of the universe?
Developed the 3 laws dealing with
ellipses?
Provided observational proofs that the
earth is a sphere?
List one problem with optical astronomy.
Collection of stars, dust, and gas bonded
together by gravity?
An instrument that collects
electromagnetic radiation from the sky?
What is the apparent backward motion of
planets called?
Shape of the orbit around the sun?
What causes day and night?
Described as the power or the strength of
the telescope?
The diameter of the lens or the mirrors?
List four reasons people began watching
the night sky.
Which has the largest effect on
eccentricity (how elliptical the shape is),
the distance between the foci or length
of the ellipse?
What is the equation for eccentricity?
*Using e, d, and L…
If the area of sector A of a planet around
the sun is 3947 m^2, according to
Kepler’s second law the area of another
sector (sector B) that represents the
same amount of time should be?
What is right ascension AND what unit is it
measure in?
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What is declination AND what unit is it
measured in?