Astronomy Quiz, Part 3: Simple Questions That You May Not Know the Answer To
In this astronomy quiz we provide answers to questions that everyone should know the answer to but not everybody does! Some of the questions are:
Some topics covered are:
1. Time taken by the planets to revolve around the Sun
2. Wobble of the Earth, precession of the equinoxes, and the astrological ages such as the Aquarian Age.
3. Rectangular coordinates
4. Essentials of a spherical coordinate system
5.Definition of a Great Circle
6. Advantages and disadvantages of using each of these Great Circles as the basis for a spherical coordinate system: ecliptic plane, celestial equator, horizon plane.
7. Astronomical definition of what 0-Aries, the Ascendant, and MC are and how they are very similar. A relationship of these points to the concept of dimension reduction.
8. What the ayanamsha is
By David Cochrane
