Star Maps and the Celestial Sphere

The Celestial Sphere spins around two points in the sky known as the.....

• North and South Poles.
• Celestial North and Celestial South Poles.
• East and West Points of Light.
• Arctic and Antarctic Points.

What is the name of the star closest to the Celestial North Pole?

• Rigel
• Vega
• Polaris
• Orion

How long does it take a star to get back to the same position in the sky it was the night before?

• 24 hours exactly
• 24 hours and 4 minutes
• 23 hours 30 minutes
• 23 hours 56 minutes

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

What the celestial equivalent of "latitude?" 

• Inclination
• Left Ascension
• Right Ascension
• Declination

What the celestial equivalent of "longitude?" 

• Inclination
• Left Ascension
• Right Ascension
• Declination

There are star pattern that are not official.  We call these unofficial star patterns ...

• Zeniths
• non-constellations
• asterisms
• Astrology

The _____ is the huge imaginary sphere on which all objects in the sky were once considered to be attached.

• equator
• celestial sphere
• ecliptic
• zenith

Why does the sun appear to move across the sky over the course of a day?

• The Earth is stationary and the sun revolves around it.
• The Sun is stationary and the Earth rotates upon its axis.
• The Sun is stationary and the Earth revolves around it.
• Both the Sun and the Earth are revolving around each other.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The ecliptic can be defined as

• the extension of the Earth's equator onto the sky.
• the plane that is perpendicular to the Earth's spin axis.
• the path traced out by the Moon in our sky in one month against the background stars.
• the path traced out by the Sun in our sky over one year against the background stars.

For any observer the _____ is the point of the sky directly overhead.

• analemma
• azimuth
• zenith
• ecliptic