ASTRONOMY REVIEWER

ROTATE -to spin around the center

REVOLVE -To move around the object

AXIS -An Imaginary line that an object rotates around

ORBIT -the path that an object takes as it goes around another object.

Latitudes or parallels of Latitude are imaginary horizontal lines that

run east-west on the Earth's surface and are parallel to each other.

The vocabulary you will encounter in this lesson includes:

1. Altitude

2. Azimuth

3. Meridian (and transit of the meridian)

4. Horizon

5. Zenith

The formula on how to get the value of Azimuth:

• Z = 360 – d

• where:

Z - is the Azimuth

d – is the distance

The sun rotates on its axis once in 27 days.

Constellation is derived from the Latin "constellatus," set with stars;

There are 88 constellations whose boundaries were established in the late 1920.s and published in 1930 by the
International Astronomical Union.

Culmination of the constellation means the highest point of the constellations in the sky.

CONSTELLATIONS’ CATEGORIES

Ptolemy listed 48 constellations in his 13 volumes the Almagest.

Bayer contributed 13 new constellations in 1603 most of which were in the Southern Hemisphere.

14 constellations were added to the deep southern skies during an expedition to the Cape of Good Hope off the tip of
Africa in 1750-54.

The 88 modern constellations contain 30 inanimate objects, 23 animals, 15 people (12 men and 3

women), 10 water creatures, 9 birds, and 1 insect.