Celestial coordinates
Channel: Astronomy with Mr Guerin
Date: 2019-07-18

How can we find objects in the sky?  This slightly longer video gives you all the maths you need for locating celestial objects for EdExcel's Astronomy GCSE.

Download the slideshow (no Stellarium videos):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1v7n69srfzFmgYxF9Vct6FKp3r_ZRqFjx

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Image credits:

Astronomical coordinates, jim slater307, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orientation_of_astronomical_coordinates_projected_on_the_Celestial_Sphere.jpg

Notre Dame de Paris, Peter Haas, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notre_Dame_de_Paris_2013-07-24.jpg

Latitude and longitude, Djexplo, wikimedia, CC0 1.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Latitude_and_Longitude_of_the_Earth.svg

Equirectangular projection of Earth, Strebe, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Equirectangular_projection_SW.jpg

H1 chronometer, Phantom Photographer, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:H1_low_250.jpg

Stellarium splash screen, Fabien Chéreau et al, wikimedia, GNU GPL v2
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stellarium_Splash.png