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Week 5 (18th October 2009)

 

· Constellations – students to list all they knew.

 

· Constellations – history and definition of what a constellation is

 

· Celestial Coordinates – Right Ascension (RA) and Declination (Dec)

 

· Exercise of estimating RA and Dec for stars from star map

 

· Four stars were Betelgeuse, Rigel, Capella and Aldenaran

 

· Week’s Work

 

· Coursework - continue

 

· How can Orion be used as pointers to other stars and constellations – research a suitable star map/diagram

 

· Read PPt on celestial coordinates

 

 

 

Week 6 (8th November 2009)

 

· Celestial coordinates – recap

 

· Understanding star maps

 

· The seasons

 

· The ecliptic

 

· Latitude, Longitude and Time Zones (intro – recap next week)

 

 

GCSE Astronomy — Lesson Summary Sheets—Year 2009/10—Greenwich G&T

 

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· Week’s Work

 

· Coursework

 

· Study Powepoints –Days and Seasons + Celestial Coordinates and Lat/Lon/Time Zones

 

· Study your Astro Calendar Nov and Dec entries and research anything you do not understand

 

 

 

Week 7 (15th November 2009)

 

· Moon’s orbit

 

· Eclipses – lunar and solar

 

· Moon’s orbit and Eclipses PPt

 

· Work to do in week

 

· Continue coursework

 

· Read Moon’s orbit and Eclipses PPt

 

· Especially study the Tides section

 

Useful web sites

 

· Eclipses  - Fred Espenak’s site

 

· Moon illusion APOD image