make sense out of what you see, a very useful trick is to use the stars...
North Celestial Pole Polaris celes South Celestial Pole ChapterPatt The stars look as if they are attached to a sphere that surrounds the earth, the Celestial Sphere. We now know that stars are really at different distances from the Earth, but we still use the Celestial Sphere model as a convenient map of the stars. The Celestial Sphere appears to rotate from East to West, carrying each star completely around in slightly less than 24 hours. The time for one...
YOU FOCUS YOUR ATTENTION ON THE STARS that are contained within or very close to THE CONSTELLATIONS OF THE ZODIAC groups such as Taurus the Bulland Gemini the Twins (etc). Page 20 of 34 and stars very close to the zodiac constellations such as Sirius (the Dog Star) & Betelgeuse (the Hunter's Shoulder) From here on in this exam, the word STAR will always be used to refer to such objects- to constellations. Even ifyou have learned somewhere that our...