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Chapter 1 Discovering the Night Sky. The Celestial Sphere.

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1 Chapter 1 Discovering the Night Sky

2 The Celestial Sphere

3 Measuring Space

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5 Looking at Stars Near the North Pole

6 Universal Time is Measured at Greenwich, England

7 Time Zones

8 The Ecliptic

9 The Ecliptic Plane

10 Seasonality: What Causes the Seasons? (the tilt of the Earth’s axis)

11 The Height of the Sun Throughout the Year Changes

12 The Energy Deposited by the Sun Changes Throughout the Year SummerWinter

13 The Changing Path of the Sun

14 Precession: The Earth’s Wandering Pole

15 The Changing North Star (Polaris isn’t always it…)

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17 Phases of the Moon

18 Conditions for Eclipses

19 Lunar Eclipse

20 3 Types of Lunar Eclipses

21 Solar Eclipse

22 The End


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