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Astronomy 1020 Stellar Astronomy Spring_2016 Day-5
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Course Announcements Smartworks Chapter 1: Grades will be downloaded sometime this weekend. SW-2 … hop to it. 1 st set of Dark Sky observing nights: Tues. Feb. 2 & Mon. Feb. 8 – 7:30pm at the observatory. Tues. Feb. 9 is the weather backup if both are cancelled.
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Scientist Question Einstein, Tesla – 5 Tyson - 4 Newton – 3 Galileo, Nye, Sagan, “none” – 2 Dawkins, Turing, Hawking, Freud, Stroutstrop, Witowski Nash M. Currie, Triplett, Thomas of Aquinas, “The guy who invented toothpaste” – 1 each.
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Star Charts
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Celestial Sphere Image a spinning Celestial Sphere surrounding Earth in thinking about the position and motion of the sky
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Coordinates
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Celestial Sphere Celestial Sphere Rotation Celestial Sphere Star A Star B 1 1 3 2 2 4 4 3 Figure 2 Horizon Position
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