ASTR-101 Lesson 2

Chapter 7

Safety with telescopes -Stay relativity still -Glass on lens is fragile -Don't look at the sun or solar eclipse The moon protection -Can turn people into werewolf's -Can get rid of the telescopes magical properties -Can break the glass lens Moon chart -Charts the cycle of the moon Luna-scopes -Easier to use than a moon chart, but is more expensive Moon -Light form the moon actually comes from the sun, since it is reflected Moon Phases -New Moon is not visible to the naked eye -Silver moon = waxing crescent -Half moon = first quarter -30 day lunar cycle -Waxing gibbous-mostly full -Full moon- 14th day of the cycle Moon Vocab -Waxing-Growing=Right -Waning-Shrinking=Left Telescope Functions -Large metal knob on the left=zoom -Magic auto focus the camera -Focus manually- small zoom knob, pull out and twist