Antronomy Vocab
Across
- 4. sphere: an imaginary sphere of which the observer is the center and on which all celestial objects are considered to lie.
- 5. ascension and declination: the two coordinates that are used to locate celestial objects the same way latitude and longitude are used to locate things on Earth
- 7. the point in the sky or celestial sphere directly above an observer.
- 9. zone: the area of the sky that never dips below the horizon.
- 10. one of 88 zones in which the night sky is divided
Down
- 1. a current model of the solar system with the Sun at its center.
- 2. north pole: the point in the sky about which all the stars seen from the Northern Hemisphere rotate.
- 3. an imaginary line in the sky that marks the path of the sun, the moon, and the planets in our solar system.
- 6. an outdated model of the solar system with the Earth at its center.
- 8. equator: the imaginary circle projected into space from the earth's equator.