PPT-Celestial Navigation: How much do you already know?

Presenter JeFF GoldsteIn BBAA Secretary httpsenwikipediaorgwikiSextant mediaFileUsingsextantswinggif How do we read a sextant Celestial Navigation terms A ltitude H. Always relative to inertial space Most common inertial sensors Accelerometers G yros brPage 4br Accelerometers By attaching a mass to a spring measuring its deflection we get a simple accelerometer Figure Gade 2004 brPage 5br Accelerometers conti 1 Nine Things You Should Already Know About PLAGIARISM Plus . . . Six Excuses That Don't Work And . . . Three Things You Don't Need To Worry About An information al tool brought to you by t he Office Charting the Heavens. 1.1 Our Place in Space. . Earth. is average – we don’t occupy any special place in the universe. . Universe. : totality of all space, time, matter, and energy. 1.1 Our Place in Space. Christy Adams. Who is admitted?. D&C 76:50-70. Those who received the testimony of Jesus Christ and were baptized and received the Holy Ghost. Those who are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise. Those of the Church of the Firstborn (Church of Christ). Lecture 11: Extra-Solar Planets. Outline. Finding Extra-Solar Planets. The Two-Body Model. A Celestial Cubic. Example-51-Pegasi. 2. Finding Extra-Solar Planets. Recent discoveries of planets orbiting stars rely on a type of problem known as an . Lesson Objectives. • To use and understand celestial . co-ordinates.. • To explain why Polaris remains fixed in the sky at an elevation equal to latitude. Celestial Co- ordinates. In astronomy, a celestial coordinate system is a system for specifying positions of celestial objects: satellites, planets, . Introductory Astronomy . The. Sun and the Moon. 1. So Far. Stars . fixed on a large celestial sphere that rotates daily . East . to . West . about an axis through Earth’s poles. Declination . is celestial longitude. Observer’s . Taoism: Let’s Recap. What is the “Tao”? . Taoism originated in which country?. Who is Lao Tzu?. Who is Huang Di?. Who is Chuang Tzu?. What does “. wu. . wei. ” mean and how is it applied in Taoism?. Ancient naked-eye astronomy. Eighty-eight constellations. The sky. ’. s ever-changing appearance. The celestial sphere. Celestial coordinates. Seasons: Earth. ’. s axial tilt. Precession of Earth. 1. Is the north Star, Polaris, at the . Zenith from . our viewpoint in Gallup? Why or why not?. You are observing the sky at the equator, (this is a time-lapse. photo of what you see). . What part of the celestial sphere could you be looking . Tiffany Pewett. pewett@astro.gsu.edu. 25 Park Place, 625E. General Lab Info. If you don’t already have the book you need to get one and make sure you bring it to each lab.. Please do all labs in pencils, scratched out pen is hard to grade.. What is a Constellation?. A specific group of stars.. Ancient people of many cultures . connected. groups of stars to form patterns, like huge dot-to-dot puzzles.. These . patterns. are known as constellations. . vocabulary. forestall. forestall. . v. . prevent. meticulous. meticulous. adj. extremely careful about details. affectation. affectation. n. .; . a. rtificial behavior intended to impress others. Patterns in the Sky. The Constellation Orion. Constellations:. Recognizable patterns in the sky are called Constellations.. There are 88 Constellations. 12 are based on the Zodiac.. Orion, Leo, Aries, Taurus, etc..