AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Celestial Pole, Depth Perception, Celestial Equator

• School: UTSG
• Department: Astronomy & Astrophysics
• Course: AST101H1
• Professor: Michael Reid

Document Summary

Ast101 lecture 4 the night sky, constellations, and seasons. Patterns in the night sky: stars always exist, day and night, but it"s the daylight that keeps you from seeing them. Union (iau) that entirely cover the sky: constellations vary in names between cultures such as western, egyptian, *stars in a constellation are all at difference distances from earth and from each other. Stars near the equator form single strands that fall from above the sky and into the horizon. East, or rather counter-clockwise from a view above earth"s north pole: the band of light regarded as the milky way circles at the way around the celestial sphere. Most of this band is seen from the southern hemisphere: the local sky: the sky that one can see from where they are located on earth. We see only half of the celestial sphere from any location of the earth because the sky appears to be dome-shaped.