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Table
of Contents
Intro
to Astronomy
Misconceptions
Archaeoastronomy
Equitorial Coordinates
Understanding the Seasons
Time & Its Measurement
Telescopes
Solar
& Lunar Eclipses
The
Solar System
The
Earth
The
Moon
Mecury,
Venus, Mars
The
Outer Planets
Solar
System Debris
The
Sun
Evolution
of Stars
Intersteller
Matter
Sky
Literacy
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Time and Its Measurement
Answers
INTRODUCTION
1. time
2. day, revolution, month
APPARENT SOLAR TIME
3. sun
4. revolution, 24 hours, 23 hours 56 minutes, sidereal
5. sun, four minutes
6. hour angle, hours, minutes, seconds
7. zero, 24
8. zero, 12
9. 24
10. 15:15, 3:15 p.m.
11. 09:41, 9:41 a.m.
12. 7 hours 16 minutes
13. 21 hours 12 minutes
MEAN SOLAR TIME
14. mean
15. revolves, elliptical (oval), GREATER
16. declination
17. winter
18. mean, equal time intervals
19. hour angle
EQUATION OF TIME
20. equation of time
21. POSITIVE, NEGATIVE
22. analemma
LOCAL TIME
23. longitude
24. EARLIER
25. four, one
26. 17:36 (5:36 p.m.), WEST, later, earlier, four
27. zero degree
28. 18:52 (6:52 p.m.), December 31st
29. 02:16 (2:16 a.m.), January 1st
30. longitude
TIME ZONES
31. zones, mean local
32. 12, 11
33. Atlantic, Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Alaska, Hawaii
34. International Date Line
35. AHEAD
36. The servers will have to repeat the whole New Year's Eve party again
tonight! It is now only the morning of December 31st.
37. daylight savings, EAST, 5:30 a.m., 8:30 p.m.
38. sun
39. INCREASING
40. AHEAD, accelerate, LONGER
41. leap
SIDEREAL TIME
42. meridian, 23 hours 56 minutes
43. counterclockwise, EASTWARD
44. four minutes
45. sidereal
46. sidereal, SHORTER
47. stars, sidereal, 23 hours 56 minutes
48. right ascension
49. vernal equinox
50. sidereal
51. right ascension, right ascension
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