Astronomy vocabulary

Define Telescopes

• an instrument that allows people to see distant objects

• An instrument where you blow air into

• And instrument used to listen tho far away things

• An instrument used to grab objects

binoculars

• an object that mirrors you

• an instrument to make noise

• an optical instrument with a lens for each eye, used for viewing distant objects

• an instrument to drive

define sextants

• an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies

• an instrument to see things from faraway

• an instrument to hear space noises

• an object to measure gravity

computers and software

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define asterism

• aliens

• a group of comets

• a constellation

• a pattern of stars that is not a constellation

define sunspot

• someone that spots suns

• areas that appear dark on the surface of the Sun

• sun clouds

• sun oceans

define star chart

• a map of the night sky

• table of stars

• a map of your house

• a chart of the school

BigHorn Medicine Wheel

• star chart to predict the future

• rocks in a circle

• one of four or five astronomically complex wheels that are publicly known to exist in the Rocky Mountain region

• a medicine wheel that makes medicine

constellation boundary

• real 3d lines surrounding stars

• fence around 3 stars

• The boundary edges meet, dividing the imaginary sphere — the celestial sphere — surrounding Earth into 88 pieces

constellation

• group of comets going into a planet

• group of suns

• is a group of stars that appears to form a pattern or picture

• group of planets in a line