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    In this activity you can practise with Stellarium, and you can learn how to design your own star map, so as to be able to find the main constellations in the sky.

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    Stellarium - Star Map

    Uploaded by

    mjosemorales
    In this activity you can practise with Stellarium, and you can learn how to design your own star map, so as to be able to find the main constellations in the sky.

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    © All Rights Reserved
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    ERASMUS+ 2017-1-ES01-KA219-038074_1

    OUT OF THE DARK: ASTRONOMY AS UNIFYING THREAD FOR CULTURES.

    TRANSNATIONAL MEETING, ESKILSTUNA MAY, 20-26th.

    Using the Stellarium


    In this practice we will use the Stellarium program, which is a very useful free planetarium to study
    the sky.
    It allows us to compare the relative positions of the stars at different times of the year for the same
    place on Earth, as well as compare the map of stars at the same time in different places on the
    planet.

    Activity 1.
    Once you have installed the program, go to Madrid on April, the 26 th. How do we do?
    Click on the button location window (on the left of the screen) and then look for Madrid, Spain
    information.

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    Now fit the hour, for example, 22:00, and select the equatorial grid (on the bottom of the screen).
    Now look for the Polaris.

    Once you have located the Polaris, try to find as many constellations as you can. For example, Ursa
    minor, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Ursa major, Orion. Try also to keep the number of some of the most
    brilliant stars, for example Capella.

    You can click on


    the button that
    shows the
    constellations.

    Then, once you


    became familiar
    with the shape of
    the main
    circumpolar
    constellations we
    can continue our
    task putting them
    in our mute star
    map.

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    Now, do the same for Gualdo Tadino and for Eskilstuna.

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    Now, we can compare with the sky on May, the 25th .

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    Activity 2.
    First of all, we made a line that join the Polaris,
    just in the center of the map, with Navy y Cas,
    the central double star of Cassiopeia and we
    follow it till the border of our map.

    With the help of a protractor of angles, we make


    divisions in sectors of 15 degrees to 24
    terrestrial meridians (15 degrees are equivalent
    to an hour). You can do this also taking into
    account that 90º can be divided in three sectors
    of 30º and then, each one of them in two sectors
    of 15º.

    After that, we can divide our sky with a compass


    in concentric circles, whose center is the Polaris.
    The correct way is to take the second star of
    Cassiopeia (ksora) just in the latitude 60º N

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    So, if you start in the Polaris (90º N), and Ksora is 60º N (Eskilstuna), you can divide the distance in
    three parts (each one with 10º latitude).
    Moreover, if you double the distance, you have 30º N, then you can divide once again in three to
    have 40º (Madrid for example), just to Ecuador.

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