What is the difference between

Astronomy and Astrophysics?

- Today we will explain how about asronomy
- Astronomy might be defined as the subject of
the ‘where and when’ related to the description
of a celestial body with the ‘why and how’ being
covered more by Astrophysics.
 Instantaneous Phenomena
1. Day

- The day a variety of phenomena may be seen

- One of them If the sun will sink condition was called
twilight.

On the horizon opposite to the twilight glow, a dark

purple band is sometimes seen. This area corresponds
to a zone on the sky which is cut off from the direct
sunlight by the Earth and is receiving very little light by
scattering from the atoms and molecules in the
atmosphere
2. Night

- If the moon visible, it’s shape will be crescent,

gibbous, even circular
- And we can see the twinkle for example in the
star pattern of Orion, one of the many
constellations, Betelgeuse is a red star in
contrast to the blue of Rigel
 A few hours
1. Day
- The heavens are never static, for example: The slowly-
moving shadow cast by an upright rod or a boulder or
tree reveals the Sun’s movement across the sky
- If observation is kept up throughout the day, the Sun
is seen to rise above the eastern horizon,
- Then reach a maximum altitude above the line joining
the north to the south points, then descend in a mirror
image of its forenoon path to set on the western
horizon.
2. Night

- As darkness falls, the first stars become visible

above the eastern horizon
- Then this is a situation where the twilight
fainter star can be seen, after an hours passed
the stellar groups rise from the eastern
horizontal. When the star like the sun reaches
it’s maximum altitude then set or become dim
and invisible as daylight returns
 A month
- The sun is not the only object to move
independently of the stellar patterns
- A few nights’ observations of the Moon’s
position against the stars (its sidereal position)
show that it too moves but at a much faster
rate, about thirteen degrees per day
- Twenty-nine and one-half days after new
moon, it is a one month
 A year
• A year is linked to the seasonal changes Sun rises,
increases altitude until it culminates on the
meridian at apparent noon, then falls down the
sky until it sets on the western horizon.
• Sun not only revolved with the stars on the
celestial sphere about the Earth in one day but
that it also moved much more slowly along the
path among the stars on the celestial sphere,
making one revolution in one year, returning to
its original position with respect to the stars in
that period of time.