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Week 2 lecture & reading discussion

Week 2 lecture & reading discussion

Q Part 1: Give a quick explanation about how apparent motion and the celestial sphere coordinate system are related (don't be vague, use terminology & numbers that you've learned). Part 2: Australia, in the southern hemisphere, has an extraordinarily warm January. Come up with an astronomy-based argument as to why that could be and explain how the North Star appears to move from there

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The celestial platform that every night we look upon and admire, and that which exists since times unknown, is filled with activities that are mostly apparent in nature and assumed to follow certain grids and patterns because of the distances in which they all lie. The celestial sphere is basically an assumed sphere that astronomers have created to understand the various apparent motions in the sky for the convenience of our understanding the space. This sphere is the abstract radius on which all the celestial objects apparently lie and it helps us understand the positions of those considering that the earth is at the centre of the sphere