Astronomy 1021 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Axial Tilt, Cosmic Dust, Analemma

• School: Western University
• Department: Astronomy
• Course: Astronomy 1021
• Professor: Robert Cockcroft

Document Summary

Phases of the moon, opens tonight and ends next monday at 11:59. Takes 1-2 hours, try to do it all together. Take screenshots on each page in case of technical glitches. You get a mark after each tutorial, you should get at least 50% As long as you use the hints sparingly you wont get marks deducted. If you save hints you can get bonus points. Contains other galaxies and the blue snowball nebula. For every hour you"re of gmt that"s 15 degrees. Everything rises in the east sets in the west. Seems to go around in a circle, the ones in me middle never seem to rise or set. Don"t appear to rise or set, when looking at the north. All plants orbit around the sun orbit in the same direction. Venus spins the opposite way on the axis (hit by a big object to cause spinning the other way?)