Describe The Apparent Magnitude Of Stars In The Sky

There are billions upon billions of stars in our galaxy but only about 2000 of those are visible to us at night. Although there is one star that we are able to see during the day, but only because it is the closest one to earth, this star is the sun. Because the brightness of the sun is so vast we cannot see other stars, but when the sun sets we can see an abundance of celestial objects. The sun appears to be what some would call “the largest star” but it is only an average sized star, there are a countless more that are hundreds times the size of our sun. When we look up into the night sky and focus our eyes on what appears to be a star we often notice it twinkling, this is caused by turbulence in earth’s atmosphere. The atmosphere is like a lens and makes a boiling effect causing stars to look like they’re twinkling. Astronomers have discovered clusters of stars forming patterns, we call them constellations and there are roughly eighty-eight in our night sky. Stars can come in all kinds of different shapes sizes and distances, which causes some stars to appear closer than others. Bigger stars tend to shine more brightly than smaller stars. Even though a star seems bigger and brighter than the others doesn’t actually mean it is, it could just be a star closer to earth than most. The closest star to us is Alpha Centauri and is approximately four light years from earth meaning it takes four years for the light from Alpha Centauri to reach

The brightness a star would have if it were at 10 pc from Earth is called its: A. Absolute Magnitude.

The constellation that rises from the East is Hercules. The constellation that is high in the south

I choose to discuss the constellation Draco, or "The Dragon." I choose this constellation because a dragon is perhaps my most beloved and favorite creature of all time, magical or not. This constellation was also featured in my favorite movie of all time, "Dragonheart." Draco was just one of the constellations listed by Ptolemy, a 2nd century astronomer and it is circumpolar, or never setting. Draco consists of fourteen main stars, with its brightest star being y Dra. The constellations lies near Hercules and Ursa Major, in the North.

Point of view is a perspective, there are three types points of view, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person. Number the Stars is 3rd person limited, and omniscient, this means that the narrator has total control over every aspect of one character, and can only sense how the other characters are feeling. The character that the book puts the most focus on is Annemarie, she is from the Johanson family. The Johansons helped bring Many Jewish families to safety in the book. In Mr. Sergio Moirano interview was in 1st person, he spoke of his personal experiences during the war. Sergio told about his memories, about how he was shot in the arm, and how terrified he was every second of the day. Number the Stars and Mr. Sergio Moirano interview are quite similar in

The constellation Leo is a zodiac constellation that is one of the early constellations. It was cataloged by astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century, and is considered one of the original 48. (1) Leo has been known by many names in many cultures, Ser, Shir, Artan, Aryo, Arye, and Simha, all meaning lion. (2)

In life humans want to try to find peace with one another, but there is always that one person who doesn’t want to cooperate and listen. There are human that are living a life immaturely and can’t accept equality because of their ignorance and pride, this is why there is no peace in this world. Usually there is a majority of people who never think twice about someone’s feelings or about empathy. In the short story “Out of All Them Bright Stars”, by Nancy Kress, she illustrates about a blue alien name John who enters into a restaurant to dine-in, and is presenting himself appropriately and politely to Sally, but then comes barging out of the kitchen name Charlie, who dislikes him and acts disrespectful to him because of the way he looks. He

The Constellation I will be talking about today is Orion, Commonly known as The Hunter. Orion's is a hunter from Greek Mythology and is one of the most recognizable constellations. Orion has some of the brightest stars(some examples are Betelgeuse and Rigel) and is one of the prettiest winter constellations in my opinion.

Rigel is the brightest star in the constellation Orion and the seventh brightest star in the night sky. Around 12,000 times as luminous as the Sun. Rigel is most visible in winter evenings in the northern hemisphere and summer in the southern. The distance from Earth is about 860 light year. It is around 78 times larger than the Sun, the radius is approximately 54,250,000 km. Surface temperature is approximately 11,000 K.

For thousands of years people would look up in the sky and see images, and those images are called constellations! My constellation is called the Volans or The Flying Fish.

My favourite constellation is Orion, or the hunter, as it's the first one I learned how to identify when I was a kid. Orion is easiest to see from November through to February, to the south-west if you are in the Northern Hemisphere, or the north-west if you are in the southern one. It's most marking feature is the belt, three bright stars in a short line. Most of the stars that make up the constellation or blue giants or supergiants.

Throughout the course of our existence, humans have looked to the skies for a multitude of reasons. A couple of them would be something along the lines of religious beliefs or the physical use of the stars as a guide or a compass to bring families home or help discover new territories. The use of constellations have been recorded in Mesopotamian culture that has been dated back to around 4000 B.C. According to a “Constellation History” article by Jim Fuchs “In the 8th century B.C. (800-701). Homer mentioned a few now familiar constellations in his epic poem, the Odyssey. Four hundred years later Eudoxus of Cnidus wrote about 43 constellations.” (Fuch) Ptolemy, another Greek astronomer had created a book called the Almagest which contained a lot of our present day constellations. This book was written in 150 A.D. and contained 48 constellations of those 48, 21 were from the northern constellations and 12 were Zodiacal constellations and 15 from the southern constellations. These constellations consisted of many that are very well known to date such as Bootes, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Aries, Cancer, and Taurus. In the following paragraphs we will go over the history of these constellations. After Ptolemy, roughly 1100 years later in Moorish controlled Spain a group of scholars created the famous Arabic astronomy writing of the Alfonsine

Constellations are a group of stars in a region that forms a pattern in the sky.

Have you ever had one of those days where you’d take a nice walk in the night time and just gaze into the night sky, and when you look up you see a bunch of beautiful stars. Well, if you have taken a closer look you may have noticed that the stars have patterns that create images called constellations. Constellations are a group of stars that are connected together to represent mythological images of animals and objects from the past that is located in the celestial sphere 1, 3. They were mainly discovered by the early people, primarily used as references to coordinate directions, measure time, predict farming seasons, and for religious studies3. According to the International Astronomical Union, there are 88 constellations in the sky, but

Earth’s galaxy, the Milky Way consists of more than 100 billion stars, many of which can be interpreted by human visual perception, while other can only be observed with the aid of a magnifying or light-collecting optical device such as a telescope. The stars are organized into various groupings according to their visible arrangement as observed in earth’s atmosphere. Human beings from cultures of eras bygone such as the Greeks, Romans, and Babylonians, and bestowed most, if not all of the titles upon the constellations as we know them today. Earth’s atmosphere comprises eighty-eight constellations, of which I have chosen the following five to discuss for my laboratory report: Andromeda, Big Dipper, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, and Draco