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Chapter 2: Celestial Sphere, Seasons, Moon Phases and Eclipses Grab an ABCD page from Reading Assignment to be completed in Canvas me if you dont have one due on Monday, August 27th A B HW1 posted to website under:

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Chapter 2: Celestial Sphere, Seasons, Moon Phases and Eclipses

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Grab an ABCD page from me if you don’t have one

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(Hint: it looks like this) Reading Assignment to be completed in Canvas due on Monday, August 27th HW1 posted to website under: http://www.physics.utah.edu/~wik/courses/astr1060fall2018/ homework.html due on Wednesday, September 5th

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Name for the Class Llama

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A) Sir Jeffrey McGoat, Esq. B) Space Ranger Goat C) Gerald “The Space Odyssey” Goat Llama D) Goaterade / Goaty McGoatFace

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Orienting Ourselves on the Earth

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It’s all just geometry and timing

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top view side view top view

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Important Points & Planes

  • n the Celestial Sphere

Project stars and planets on a sphere surrounding the Earth It is fictitious, but convenient for locating objects in the sky

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Orienting Yourself relative to the Celestial Sphere

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhgZBn-LHg (Vsauce)

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If the north star is directly above our goat/llama (at its zenith), where are you on the Earth?

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A) North Pole B) Anywhere on the Equator C) Exactly at 0 degrees longitude

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D) South Pole

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North Pole!

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If you’re 30 degrees north of the equator:

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At the Equator, where you can see the entire sky:

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Southern Hemisphere, same as in the north but relative to the South Celestial Pole

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What causes the seasons?

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0% 25% 50% 75% 100%

Partially Correct Partially Correct Correct Incorrect

A) Distance from the Sun B) Tilt of the Earth C)Distance from the Sun AND tilt of the Earth

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In SLC, where does the Sun set on the horizon?

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A) Same place every day B) A random (but predictable) place each day C) A different place each day of the year D) A different place each day for half the year, then repeating that pattern in reverse the second half

  • f the year
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On what days does the Sun set in these locations?

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Fall/Spring Equinoxes September 21st March 20th Summer Solstice June 21st Winter Solstice December 21st

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Max altitude of the Sun determined by where we are on Earth and where the Earth is in its orbit

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The 2 reasons we have seasons

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm_Cn8-DCNc Where and when are we?

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Right now!

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https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html

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Fall Equinox

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https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html

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December Solstice

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https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html

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Friday/Monday split

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Grab an ABCD page from me if you don’t have one

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(Hint: it looks like this) Reading Assignment (Chapters 1 & 2) due in Canvas in moments (or moments ago) New Reading Assignment (Chapter 3) due THIS Friday (August 31st, 10:45am) in Canvas HW1 posted to website under: http://www.physics.utah.edu/~wik/courses/astr1060fall2018/ homework.html due on Wednesday, September 5th

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TUESDAY | AUGUST 28 | 6:00 p.m.

Aline W. Skaggs Bldg. (ASB) Room 220

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If you’re 30 degrees north of the equator:

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Where would you have to be for the sun to pass directly

  • verhead on June 21st?

A) At 23.5 degrees S latitude B) At 23.5 degrees N latitude C) At the north pole D) On the equator

Location: 40 deg N (same as SLC)

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Aside: Eratosthenes measures the Earth’s circumference in in 200 BC

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The Ecliptic

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The Ecliptic

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Tonight, Vega (the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, part

  • f the summer triangle), will set at 6:55am. What time will it

set tomorrow night? A) 6:51am B) 6:55am C) 6:59am

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Why star rise/set times change

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About how many degrees does the Earth move in its orbit each day?

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We need leap years because…

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A) Earth’s Axis is tilted B) Amy Adams and Matthew “The Space Odyssey” Goode are delightfully funny together! C) The direction the Earth’s axis points slowly changes with time D) Earth does not go once around the sun in exactly 365 days

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We need leap years because…

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A) Earth’s Axis is tilted B) Amy Adams and Matthew Goode are delightfully funny together! C) The direction the Earth’s axis points slowly changes with time D) Earth does not go once around the sun in exactly 365 days —> 365.2422 days

Julian calendar was used for over 1000 years (leap day every 4 years). Every 400 years, the calendar is offset from the seasons by 3 more days. Gregorian Calendar (what we use today)

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Hey you, what’s your sign?

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Astrology is bunk!

(HINT: This will be an exam question.)

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Earth’s axis wobbles like a top: called Precession

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Earth’s axis wobbles like a top: called Precession

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Group Activity Time!

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Monday/Wednesday split

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Grab an ABCD page from me if you don’t have one

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(Hint: it looks like this) Reading Assignment (Chapter 3) due THIS Friday (August 31st, 10:45am) in Canvas HW1 posted to website under: http://www.physics.utah.edu/~wik/courses/astr1060fall2018/ homework.html due on Wednesday, September 5th

Turn in your Moon Phases worksheet by 10:50am! Feel free to discuss your answers with neighbors, but ABSOLUTELY NO COPYING

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When does the full moon rise?

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A) At Noon B) At Sunset C) At Midnight D) At Sunrise

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Can figure out roughly when the Moon will rise, given its phase, from this diagram alone

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Phases of the Moon

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Phases of the Moon

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gibbous crescent Waxing Waning

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Moon phases are easy to figure out once you have the right mental picture

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Draw the diagram!

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sunlight

Waning Gibbous

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Draw the diagram!

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sunlight

Gibbous =/= Crescent, so either

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Waning = going away, Moon orbits same direction we rotate, so… Moon must be here!

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Draw the diagram!

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sunlight

Gibbous =/= Crescent, so either

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Waning = going away, Moon orbits same direction we rotate, so… Moon must be here! When does it rise??? Horizon

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Galileo’s observations of the phases of Venus in 1610

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The apparent size of Venus correlates with its phase

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During what phase of the moon would you see a solar eclipse (the moon eclipses the sun)? How about a lunar eclipse (the earth eclipses the moon)? Why isn’t there an eclipse at every full and new moon?

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Solar Eclipses

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total annular

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Lunar Eclipse

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Eclipses are rare because the moon doesn’t orbit in the ecliptic

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The Moon’s orbit only crosses the ecliptic twice, so how many chances are there per year for a solar or lunar eclipse to occur?

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Is there a “dark side” of the Moon?

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Picture Credit: Apollo 16

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Nope - but there is a “far side”

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From the Clementine Satellite

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Tides

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How many high tides do we have per day?

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A) One B) Two C) Three D) Four

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strength of the tides depends on Moon phase Spring Tides Neap Tides

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Tidal Locking

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Tides on the Moon, caused by Earth, are stronger and have “locked” one side of the Moon toward the Earth How long does it take the Moon to rotate? These tidal forces are slowing down the rotation of the Earth, which means (to conserve angular momentum) that the Moon is moving away from us! 200 million years from now: a day will be 25 hours long 600 million years from now: no more total solar eclipses

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The two-faced Moon, in lame Mercator projection

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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mosaic

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The reason it’s two-faced is known, but how that happened is not!

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proto-Earth Mars-sized protoplanet

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/07/01/ the_moon_s_two_faces_why_are_they_so_different.html

Theory 1) two proto-Moons formed from collision, which later “gently” coalesced Theory 2) the Moon formed very close to the Earth, became tidally locked soon thereafter, and the heat from the Earth “evaporated” crust on the near side, which preferentially condensed on the cooler far side The Moon’s crust is thicker on the far side than the near side!

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Seasonal Poetry

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The two reasons we have seasons Are both due to the Earth’s tilt, When our nearest pole Points toward Sol Its light shines to the hilt And stays in the sky Like a too-long deployed spy At risk of committing treason!