YS Stargazing Workshop

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YS Stargazing Workshop - Quiz

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Why did ancient humans study the night sky?

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For astrology

For telling time

For entertainment

For completing high school

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How many planets can you see with your naked eye? Not counting Earth!

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What do you call a moon that less than half its size but growing bigger?

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Waxing Gibbous

Waning Crescent

Waning Gibbous

Waxing Crescent

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Who invented the stellar magnitude scale?

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Aristotle

Hipparchus

Galileo

Aryabhatta

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How many constellations traditionally comprise the zodiac? *

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What is the NEOWISE telescope designed to detect?

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Dwarf Stars

Craters on the moon

Near Earth Objects

Oort Cloud Objects

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What do you call a space rock that is falling through the Earth's atmosphere?

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Meteoroid

Meteor

Meteorite

Shooting Star

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Which technology does Star Walk 2 use to help identify the night sky objects?

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What does the sextant help you measure?

Direction of compass

Depth of the sea

Angle of the line of sight

Temperature of stars

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Which of the following disrupts stargazing?

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Sound pollution

Dark adaptation

Light pollution

Air pollution

Pupil dilation

Land pollution

Clouds

C/2020 F3 is the technical name for

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Black Hole Gargantua

Comet NEOWISE

Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

Comet Halley

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Comet NEOWISE takes about 6800 years for every orbit around the Sun.

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True

False

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