Astronomy Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. If you took a picture of the sun at the same time each day from the same
- 4. The sun's annual sun around the celestial sphere and the plane that all planets and sun is on
- 5. Inner and darkest part of a shadow
- 12. Measured clockwise around the observer's horizon
- 15. Is the celestial sphere's equivalent of latitude
- 16. An imaginary sphere of which the observer is the center and on which all celestial objects are considered to lie
- 18. There are usually 12 of these used in astrology
- 19. Time needed for the Moon to return to the same place regardless of the background of the stars
- 20. The Big Dipper, the Little Dipper, and the Great Square of Pegasus are examples of this
Down
- 1. Outer and lighter part of a shadow
- 3. Brightest star in the northern constellation of Boötes
- 6. Brightest star in the constellation Leo
- 7. The Sun moves through 13 of these every year
- 8. The Sun would make this figure shaped
- 9. Angular distance of a particular point measured eastward along the celestial Equator
- 10. Is Also known as the North Star
- 11. Time required for the Earth to rotate in reference to a fixed star
- 13. The sun crosses the celestial equator to enter the sky's Northern Hemisphere
- 14. When the Sun's apparent path is farthest north or south from Earth's Equator
- 17. Brightest star in the constellation Virgo