Slide 1 The Night Sky Slide 2 A constellation is a grouping of stars that has a name and forms a pattern.  The word constellation can also mean the region of the sky surrounding…

Slide 1 SWBAT identify key constellations in the northern hemisphere. Slide 2  Constellations are formed of bright stars which appear close to each other on the sky, but…

Slide 1 © 2005 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Addison-Wesley The Seasons Phases of the Moon Eclipses Constellations The “Rotating Sky” Lecture 3 The Planets Prof.…

Slide 1 1 Slide 2 2 Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) (right around Galileo) Born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (I can’t say that correctly) Last of the great astronomers who came before the…

Slide 1 The Age of Explorations When people in Europe began to explore the rest of the world Slide 2 Map of world before explorations The above map is the map of what people…

Slide 1 By: Jonathan Howard & Jose’ Ortiz Slide 2  The Aztecs peoples for some reason or other left their homes in Azlan an they where located somewhere in North…

Slide 1 Slide 2 2 There are 200 billion stars in our galaxy… …one of them is our Sun. Slide 3 The sun has nine planets… …we know of one that has life. Slide 4 2 Is…

Slide 1 Retrograde Motion You’re going the wrong way! Slide 2 History of Retrograde Motion Ancient Greeks noticed that certain celestial objects changed their locations…

Slide 1 Chapter 1 Discovering the Night Sky Slide 2 A 24 Hour picture at the South Pole. What’s different? Slide 3 What do you think? Are constellations just mythic figures…

Slide 1 Our Solar System Intro Video Intro Video Slide 2 Your Parents’ Solar System Slide 3 21 st Century Solar System Slide 4 The Solar System: List of Ingredients IngredientSunJupiter…