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Ht Lig Waxing crescent Moon First quarter Moon New Moon from ht Lig Sun from Sun Moon’s orbit Noon 6 PM Waning crescent Moon Earth Midnight 6 AM Full Moon un mS ro ht f Lig Waxing gibbous Moon Third quarter Moon Waning gibbous Moon FIGURE 1-21 The Phases of the Moon The diagram shows the Moon at eight locations on its orbit as viewed from far above the Earth’s North Pole. The corresponding photographs show the resulting lunar phases as seen from Earth. The waning and third quarter photographs look backward, but they are correctly oriented as seen from Earth.
The stars (other than the Sun) are all more than 40 trillion km (25 trillion mi) from us. Therefore, although the patterns of stars in the sky do change, their great distances prevent us from seeing those changes over the course of a human lifetime. Thus, as unrealistic as it is, the celestial sphere is so useful for navigating the heavens that it is used by astronomers even at the most sophisticated observatories around the world. LINK 1 EB Second, study print or software sky materials. A very efficient way to learn the constellations is to use the board and card game Stellar 28.
Caesar had added February 29 to every calendar year that is evenly divisible by four. For example, 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 were all leap years with 366 days. But this system produces an error of about three days every four centuries. To solve the problem, Pope Gregory decreed that century years would be leap years only if evenly divisible by 400. For example, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years under the improved Gregorian system. But the year 2000—which can be divided evenly by 400— was a leap year.