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| QQ In the altazimuth or horizon coordinate system, the coordinate altitude is measured |
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| AA S 1 (1) straight up from the horizon to the object |
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| QQ Here in Gainesville, the daily motion caused by Earth's rotation makes stars in the southern sky move |
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| AA S 1 (1) in large arcs centered on the South Celestial Pole, |
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| QQ Which of the following is evidence that the Sun moves eastwards with respect to the celestial sphere and the fixed stars? |
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| AA S 1 (1) the fact that different constellations are visible |
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| QQ The approximate date on which the Sun passes through what we call the vernal (spring) equinox is |
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| QQ The equatorial coordinate that is ordinarily measured in units of time (hours, minutes, seconds) is |
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| AA S 1 (1) right ascension |
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| QQ The tropical year is defined as the time for the Sun to go completely around the celestial sphere with respect to |
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| AA S 1 (1) the vernal equinox |
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| QQ The Moon's phase midway between first quarter and full is |
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| AA S 1 (1) waxing gibbous |
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| QQ The third or last quarter Moon rises approximately at |
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| QQ The Moon's ascending node regresses westwards with respect to the fixed stars while the Moon moves eastwards. Which of the following statements is correct? |
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| AA S 1 (1) The nodical month is shorter than the sidereal month. |
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| QQ When the Moon's ascending node is at the vernal equinox it will have its |
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| AA S 1 (1) major standstills |
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| QQ Which of the following is the situation with the least knowledge about the purpose of the site or alignment(s)? |
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| QQ Which of the following is almost certainly not true about Stonehenge? |
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| AA S 1 (1) it was used to predict eclipses |
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| QQ Ballochroy has which kind(s) of alignments? |
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| AA S 1 (1) solar only, as far as is known |
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QQ In Cuzco the stone columns on Cerro Picchu west of town marked the planting season when the Sun set between them.
This occurred around the time of |
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| AA S 1 (1) antizenith passage by the Sun |
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QQ There is a one-to-one correspondence of the huacas in Cuzco's ceque system with days of the year except for 37
days in May and June. Those 37 days are the ones when |
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| AA S 1 (1) the Pleiades are invisible because they're too |
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| QQ The Mayan "Long Count" used for chronology had a "year" of |
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| QQ Which of the following is a superior planet? |
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| QQ Venus is a morning star when it is |
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| AA S 1 (1) west of the Sun on the sky |
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| QQ A superior planet undergoes retrograde motion around the time when it is at |
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| QQ The interval between successive heliacal risings of a planet such as Venus is |
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| AA S 1 (1) that planet's synodic period |
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| QQ The Metonic cycle is an example of |
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| AA S 1 (1) intercalation by rule |
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QQ The branch of the government astronomy bureau in China that was responsible for keeping track of regular phenomena (the
calendar, cycles of Moon and planets) was |
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| QQ The Sky Measuring Scale with the masonry towers (Gaocheng Observatory) was designed and built by |
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| QQ Celestial longitude is measured |
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| AA S 1 (1) eastwards along the ecliptic from the vernal equinox |
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| QQ Which of the following kinds of eclipse is seen when one is located directly behind (not in) the Moon's umbra? |
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| AA S 1 (1) annular solar eclipse |
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| QQ The eclipse seasons are the times when |
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| AA S 1 (1) the Moon's line of nodes is near or on the Sun |
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| QQ Our division of the day into 24 hours goes back to the |
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| QQ The original zigzag approximation was invented by which of the following? |
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| QQ The saros cycle is associated with |
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| AA S 1 (1) eclipses, both solar and lunar |
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| QQ In the cosmological model of Philolaus, one of the Pythagoreans, the counter-Earth served what purpose? |
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| AA S 1 (1) hide the central fire from view by people on Earth |
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| QQ The hippopede was first introduced to represent (albeit crudely) the retrograde motions of planets by |
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| QQ According to Aristotle, the natural motions of things in the superlunary realm (from the Moon's sphere out) are |
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| AA S 1 (1) in circles at constant speed (uniform circular motion) |
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| QQ Which of the following arguments did Aristotle employ against the Earth's rotation around an axis? |
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| AA S 1 (1) argument of fall |
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QQ Which of the following can only be used to establish when the Sun is at the zenith and not its altitude or the
time of day? |
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| QQ The approximate date of Ptolemy is |
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| QQ Which of the following put the Sun at the center of the Universe (heliocentric theory)? |
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| QQ Which of the following did not succeed in measuring the Moon's geocentric parallax and thus its distance? |
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| QQ In the simplified geocentric model we discussed in lecture, the epicycle for a superior planet was taken to be |
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| AA S 1 (1) the Earth's orbit around the Sun |
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QQ Which of the following features of Ptolemy's epicyclic models was the one that was most objected to by others,
including Copernicus? |
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| QQ Precession causes the North Celestial Pole to |
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| AA S 1 (1) swing westwards in a large circle around the |
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| QQ The approximate date of Newgrange is |
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| QQ The approximate date of Hipparchus is |
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| QQ The approximate date of Aristotle is |
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QQ The branch of the government astronomy bureau in China
that was responsible for keeping track of irregular phenomena
in the sky such as comets, meteors, and "guest stars" was |
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| QQ Which of the following is an inferior planet? |
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| QQ The equatorial coordinate declination is ordinarily measured in units of |
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| AA S 1 (1) angle (degrees, arcminutes, arcseconds) |
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QQ The astronomer Gerald Hawkins introduced the use of the
digital computer to study which of the following at Stonehenge? |
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AA S 1 (1) the azimuths of rise and set for astronomical objects
compared to the alignments of the stones |
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QQ Which of the following is generally considered true about
Stonehenge? |
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AA S 1 (1) the builders deliberately marked the direction of
summer solstice (or midsummer) sunrise with the Heel Stone |
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| QQ The term trilithon refers to |
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AA S 1 (1) two massive vertical stones next to each other
with a third stone laid horizontally across the top |
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QQ A person located on the Earth where the Moon's umbra
passes over sees (weather permitting, of course) a/an |
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| AA S 1 (1) total solar eclipse |
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