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Astronomy notes is an educational resource for introductory astronomy classes for undergraduates. This section describes the celestial sphere, coordinate systems, the motion of the stars. There are also sections describing time, the seasons, time zones, the phases of the moon, solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, and the motions of the planets.
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| Subject keyword(s) | Astronomy, Earth and space science, Earth in the solar system, Eyeball, Fundamentals, Geoscience, Moon, Science -- Astronomy, Science -- Physics, Science -- Space sciences, Seasons, Space Science, Sun |
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| Rights | Nick Strobel
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Astronomy Without a Telescope Chapter index in this window Chapterindex in separate windowThis material (including images) is copyrighted!.See my copyright notice for fair use practices. Now that you have some feeling for the scales of time and space that astronomy encompasses and some of the difficulties caused by being Earth-bound (well, okay: solar-system bound!), let's take a look at what is up there in the sky beyond the clouds. In this chapter, you will learn where to find the key pointson the night sky, how to use the coordinate system that astronomers use, how theSun's position among the stars changes and how that affects the temperaturethroughout the year, and about the phases of the Moon and eclipses. At the endof chapter, you will learn about the motions of the planets among the stars.All of the things in this chapter, you can observe without a telescope---naked eyeastronomy (note to Jesse Helms and Sen. Exon: that means astronomy without the use of a telescope). You just need to observe the objects carefully and noticehow things change over time. The vocabulary terms are in boldface. Go to next section Go to Astronomy Notes home last updated: 04 May 2001 Is this page a copy of Strobel's Astronomy Notes? Author of original content: Nick Strobel
