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Constellations. Earth, Moon, and Sun. Solar System Safari. Looking Up. Far, Far A way. 100. 100. 100. 100. 100. 200. 200. 200. 200. 200. 300. 300. 300. 300. 300. 400. 400. 400. 400. 400. 500. 500. 500. 500. 500.

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  1. Constellations Earth, Moon, and Sun Solar System Safari Looking Up Far, Far Away 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

  2. A fall constellation that represents the daughter of Cassiopeia and Cepheus

  3. What is Andromeda?

  4. A constellation you can use to find Polaris, the “North Star.”

  5. What is Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, or Cassiopeia?

  6. Antares, a star that is often mistaken for the planet Mars, is the “heart” of this constellation.

  7. What is Scorpius the Scorpion?

  8. The number of constellations visible from Earth.

  9. What is 88?

  10. A zodiac constellation visible from Sanford, NC between 8:30-10:30 p.m. in July.

  11. What are Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpius, Ophiuchus, Sagittarius, and Capricornus?

  12. The length of time it takes Earth to completeone trip around the Sun.

  13. What is 365 ¼ days, or one year?

  14. During this Northern Hemisphere season the Earth makes its closest approach to the Sun.

  15. What is winter?

  16. The length of time between two New Moons.

  17. What is 29.5 days, or one “moonth”?

  18. The type of eclipse observed if the Moon is located directly between Earth and the Sun.

  19. What is a solar eclipse?

  20. The Moon phase observed when the Moon is rising at midnight.

  21. What is third (last) quarter?

  22. This planet rotates “backwards.”

  23. What is Venus?

  24. The asteroid belt is located between these two planets.

  25. What are Mars and Jupiter?

  26. These two lonely planets have no moons.

  27. What are Mercury and Venus?

  28. The number of planets in our solar system with rings.

  29. What is four? (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)

  30. Not often advertised, this is the third largest planet in the Solar System.

  31. What is Uranus?

  32. Use this color of flashlight while skywatching to preserve your night vision.

  33. What is red?

  34. All stars visible in the night sky are members of this galaxy.

  35. What is the Milky Way?

  36. The Big Dipper can guide us to two stars in the summer sky. Name one of them.

  37. What is Polaris or Arcturus?

  38. An object visible in the July evening sky from North Carolina that is not a star, planet, or moon.

  39. What is: globular cluster (M13), nebula (Ring, Trifid, Lagoon) , galaxy (Milky Way, Whirlpool), space station and other artificial satellites, etc.?

  40. As this telescope feature gets larger, dimmer objects are more readily observed.

  41. What is primary mirror (or lens) diameter?

  42. The larger of the pair: our galaxy, our universe.

  43. What is our universe?

  44. The shape of the Milky Way galaxy.

  45. What is a (barred) spiral?

  46. The size of the Milky Way galaxy if our solar system shrank to the size of a quarter.

  47. What is 2,500 miles across, or the size of North America?

  48. The approximate number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

  49. What is 200-400 billion?

  50. The edge of the visible Universe is this far away.

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