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/images/icons/blank.gif Science 4-5 Visualization of the Night Sky This project uses Etoys to visualize the apparent rotation of the sky with two familiar asterisms, the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper. The asterisms are in the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. Polaris, the North Star, is in the Little Dipper.
/images/icons/pdf.gif Science 4-5 Visualization of the Night Sky This project uses Etoys to visualize the apparent rotation of the sky with two familiar asterisms, the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper. The asterisms are in the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. Polaris, the North Star, is in the Little Dipper.

Author:

Kathleen Harness

Description:

modeling the apparent rotation of the night sky: two asterisms are scripted to rotate around Polaris, the center of rotation can be moved to show differences

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