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    This document discusses several topics relating to Earth's position in the universe. It describes the celestial sphere, Earth's daily rotation on its axis and annual revolution around the Sun. It also discusses parallax, which is the apparent shift in positions of nearby stars as Earth orbits the Sun, allowing astronomers to measure distances. The document notes key figures like Jean Foucault and Friedrich Bessel who studied phenomena like the Foucault pendulum and stellar parallax.

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    This document discusses several topics relating to Earth's position in the universe. It describes the celestial sphere, Earth's daily rotation on its axis and annual revolution around the Sun. It also discusses parallax, which is the apparent shift in positions of nearby stars as Earth orbits the Sun, allowing astronomers to measure distances. The document notes key figures like Jean Foucault and Friedrich Bessel who studied phenomena like the Foucault pendulum and stellar parallax.

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    This document discusses several topics relating to Earth's position in the universe. It describes the celestial sphere, Earth's daily rotation on its axis and annual revolution around the Sun. It also discusses parallax, which is the apparent shift in positions of nearby stars as Earth orbits the Sun, allowing astronomers to measure distances. The document notes key figures like Jean Foucault and Friedrich Bessel who studied phenomena like the Foucault pendulum and stellar parallax.

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    Earth in The Universe

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    This document discusses several topics relating to Earth's position in the universe. It describes the celestial sphere, Earth's daily rotation on its axis and annual revolution around the Sun. It also discusses parallax, which is the apparent shift in positions of nearby stars as Earth orbits the Sun, allowing astronomers to measure distances. The document notes key figures like Jean Foucault and Friedrich Bessel who studied phenomena like the Foucault pendulum and stellar parallax.

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    EARTH IN THE

    UNIVERSE
    J.T. II Olivar, MAEd
    Faculty of Arts and Letters
    University of Santo Tomas
    Outline of the Lecture
     CelestialSphere
     Earth’s Simultaneous Motions
     Parallax
    Celestial Sphere
    Celestial Sphere
     The apparent sphere of the sky
     A great circle – Ecliptic
    Earth’s simultaneous
    motions
     The daily rotation of the Earth on its
    axis
     The annual revolution of the Earth
    around the Sun
    – Prograde motion
     (west-to-east) revolution
    – Retrograde motion
     (east-to-west) revolution
     Precession
    Sidereal period
     Is defined as the time interval
    between two successive conjunctions
    of the planet with a star
     Meaning the planet and star are
    together on the same meridian as
    observed from the Sun
    Synodic period
     Is the time interval between two
    successive conjunctions (either
    inferior or superior) of the planet with
    the sun
     Where the planet and the Sun are on
    the same meridian as observed from
    the Earth
    Foucault pendulum
     JeanFoucault
     1851
     French engineer
    Parallax
     As the Earth orbits the Sun once a
    year, the apparent positions of
    nearby stars change with respect to
    more distant stars.
     Is the apparent motion, or shift, that
    occurs between two fixed objects
    when the observer changes position.
     1838
     Friedrich W. Bessel (1784-1846)
     German astronomer and
    Aberration of Starlight
     Is defined as the apparent
    displacement in the direction of light
    coming from a star because of the
    orbital motion of the Earth.
     The great distances to stars are
    measured in a unit called the parsec.
     sec-measurement of angles
     parsec is defined as the distance to a
    star when the star exhibits a parallax
    of 1 s.

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