Problems: 1. Whether you realize it or not, you\'re already trained to be an ama

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Problems: 1. Whether you realize it or not, you're already trained to be an amateur Astronomer! In fact, there are many things that you can figure out just by looking up at the sky: (a) Looking up at the stars (in, say, December), name one specifie thing that you could see which would tell you that Winter had arrived. Judging by the Sun, name one specific thing that you could notice which would tell you that Winter had arrived. (c) The star Polaris is located at your zenith. Where on Earth are you? You've been kidnapped, and taken somewhere far away. When you escape in the dead of night, and look up the sky, you tice that many of the stars &constellations overhead are ones no which you have never seen before. How is this possible? (e))You know that the Constellation Lyra is high overhead, but you can't see it, because it's ng somewhere? By waiting for some period of time?- daytime. What could you do - By goi in order to see Lyra at nighttime? (f) Whenever you see a number of planets up at night, you notice that they are all lined up along a particular band of the sky. Give one name for this specific region of the Celestial Sphere. 2. The Earth's axis is tilted by about 23.5 degrees with respect to its orbit around the Sun in the Ecliptic plane. Make a sketch, drawing an arrow to represent the North Pole in each case, showing the orien- tation and position of the Earth around the Sun at four times during the year: on the Summer Solstice (June 21), the Winter Solstice (Dec. 21), the Vernal Equinox (March 21), and the Autumnal Equinox (Sept. 21). (b) If you were standing at the North Pole, for how many hours would the Sun be above your horizon during the day of the Summer Solstice, and for how many hours during the day of the Winter Solstice? (Visualizing uhere the "terminator is on the Earth may help you.) What could be done to the Earth's tilt to make our seasons more extreme? What about l extreme? (Draw simple pictures to demonstrate.) ess

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a) The Orion Constellation. Orion, the Hunter, is the feature constellation at this time of the year in both, the northern and the southern hemispheres

b) The sun appears lower in the winter sky.

c) The north pole.

d) At any given time, from a particular point on earth, only about ½ of the entire sky is visible. There is a part of the northern sky that people living in the southern hemisphere would never see and a part of the southern sky that is never visible to the people in the north. How much of the sky is visible depends on the latitude at which you live.

e) You can wait for solar eclipse.

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