The celestial sphere is a scientific model.

In winter in the Northern hemisphere, the Earth is ___________ the Sun.

A “supermoon” is when the Moon is larger in the sky because it is closer to Earth in its elliptical orbit. This point is called ________________?

If the north celestial pole appears on your horizon, what is your latitude?

In the Northern Hemisphere, the sunlight moves from right to left across the surface of the Moon during the waning phases.

The most distant point in the Moon’s orbit is called _________________.

What is the phase of the Moon shown in the above image?  

On a clear night you go outside and face south and see circumpolar stars. Then you turn and face north and you see stars rising in the east and setting in the west. Where are you located on Earth?

Saturn is on average 10 AU from the Sun. What is the approximate orbital period of Saturn?

If an observer walks north toward increasing latitude, the number of circumpolar stars would