Celestial Sphere

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

• Rigel
• Vega
• Polaris
• Orion

The Celestial Sphere's coordinates are related to what Earth system of coordinates?

• Arctic & Antarctic Circles
• Longitude & Latitude
• Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer
• Sonar systems

What are the units for right ascension?

• degrees
• hours
• arc milliseconds
• kilometers

An imaginary dome of the sky onto which all celestial objects such as stars, moons and planets can be plotted.

• Sun

• Celestial Sphere

• Apparent Motion

• Real Motion

What is the celestial equator?

• A band of constellations through which the planets and sun appear to move.

• The line that the sun traces across the celestial sphere.

• An imaginary line in the sky directly above Earth's equator.

• An imaginary line running north-south through the zenith

What is the Sun's path through the celestial sphere called?

• meridian

• declination

• ecliptic

• right ascension

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What the celestial equivalent of "longitude?" 

• Inclination
• Left Ascension
• Right Ascension
• Declination

What the celestial equivalent of "latitude?" 

• Inclination
• Left Ascension
• Right Ascension
• Declination

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.

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1