ASTR 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hollerado, Dont, Photosphere
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Figure 6 shows your view of the northern sky on a given night. You watch stars a through e over the course of the night. Objects that are closer to us have a larger parallax. Over the course of one year, the altitude (height) of the sun at noon changes due to: The international space station (iss) is orbiting the earth. The iss will have a longer orbital period. The stars appear to move across the sky each night because: All of the stars in a given constellation are physically connected to each other. The average distance between the earth and the sun. You look to the east and see a solar eclipse rising above the horizon. Which of the following planets in figure 2 has an orbit most similar to. The day of the year with the most hours of sunlight is called: