NATS 1745 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Synodic Day, Star Chart, Sidereal Year
22 Feb 2019
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Name and number on every page for the assignments the dots (which represent 1) is an s and the 0 is a 0. East is on the left on the star chart. Give the name and type of object and constellation when answering. The first 2 tests are just what u see with the naked eye. Know all of the key terms which are online. The sun appears to rise but it actually doesn"t. the earth rotates which causes it to move in the sky. To the observer on earth, everything seems to be moving. There is a difference between what is happening and how it appears. Earth: spins on axis, orbits the sun (orbit is olyptical, wobbles (wobbles on its axis in a circle every 26000 years, spins counterclockwise (same with moon and most things in our solar system.
