Latitude and Longitude

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图注： Two views of the Earth, one viewing the Northern Hemisphere, one viewing the Southern Hemisphere. The Earth rotates around its axis, an imaginary line that runs through the Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole. The Equator is an imaginary line that is the same distant from both the North Pole and the South Pole. The positions of two cities, Rome in the Northern Hemisphere and Sydney in the Southern Hemisphere are marked here with red dots. Arrows indicate the two spherical coordinates latitude and longitude. Latitude marks the position north or south of the equator. Here we can see Rome has the letter N in its latitude as it is in the Northern Hemisphere and Sydney has the letter S in its latitude as it is in the Southern Hemisphere. Latitude can vary from 90° N at the North Pole to 0° at the Equator to 90° S at the South Pole. Longitude measures the position around the equator. While the choice of the zero point for latitude as the equator seems obvious, the choice of the zero point for longitude is more subjective. By convention the zero point in longitude is the prime meridian which passes through the Royal Greenwich Observatory in the UK. This is marked here as a solid line originating at the North Pole. Longitude is measured in degrees east or west of the prime meridian. As both Rome and Sydney lie to the east of Greenwich, they have the letter E as part of their longitude. Moving west to east, longitude varies from 180° W on the other side of the world from the prime meridian to 0° on the prime meridian before reaching 180° E again on the other side of world from the prime meridian. This diagram shows the Earth at the December solstice. Two views are presented, one viewing the Northern Hemisphere and one viewing the Southern Hemisphere about nine hours later. The shaded region shows the night side of the Earth, with the day side being lighter. As it is the December solstice, the Sun appears overhead at the Tropic of Capricorn. This is a line of constant latitude at 23°26′09.3″ S. Six months later, at the June solstice, the Sun will appear to be overhead at the Tropic of Cancer at 23°26′09.3″ N. As the Sun appears over the Tropic of Capricorn more of the Southern Hemisphere is illuminated than the Northern Hemisphere. Indeed below the Antarctic Circle (the Polar Circle around the South Pole) the Sun does not set at this time of year leading to a Polar Day. Conversely, north of the Arctic Circle (the Polar Circle around the North Pole) the Sun does not rise at this time of year, leading to a Polar Night.
来源： Maria Cristina Fortuna/IAU OAE

词汇表: 地球自转 , 赤道 , 纬度 , 经度 , 极圈 , 地轴 , 回归线 , 极昼 , 极夜 , 北回归线 , 南回归线 , 热带地区 , 北极 , 南极
分类： 肉眼天文学

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Horizontal Coordinate System

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图注： This image shows the horizontal coordinate system of an observer on Earth. On the right we see the coordinate system in the local context of the observer. The observer appears here as a point surrounded by the celestial sphere. The ground appears as a plane, while the Earth is round, we can approximate the ground in the area around the observer as a plane. The line where this plane intersects with the celestial sphere is the horizon. The point directly above the observer is the zenith, the point directly below the observer is the nadir which is hidden by the ground. Two coordinates define this coordinate system, altitude and azimuth, hence the reason this sometimes called an alt-az coordinate system. The altitude is zero at the horizon, maximum (90°) at the zenith and minimum (-90°) at the nadir. Azimuth is the angle around the horizon. Most commonly this is defined to be zero in the direction of north. Any point on the celestial sphere can be defined by these two coordinates. However what objects appear on these position will depend on the time and the location of the observer. On the left-hand part of the diagram, we can see that when we put the observer and their local horizontal coordinate system in a global context, that the parts of the sky the observer can see depend on their position on the Earth and on the rotation of the Earth. The zenith points perpendicular to the Earth's surface so the position on the sky the zenith and nadir correspond to is dependent on the observer's latitude. The horizon also depends on the observer's position on the Earth.
来源： Maria Cristina Fortuna/IAU OAE

词汇表: 高度角 , 方位角 , 地平 , 天顶 , 天底
分类： 肉眼天文学 , 观测天文学

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Opposition and Conjunction

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图注： This diagram shows the Earth's orbit around the Sun and the orbits of two other planets, one orbiting the Sun outside the Earth's orbit and one orbiting the Sun inside the Earth's orbit. At different times in the orbits of both of these planets, their positions appear to line up with the Earth and the Sun. At these points each planet would appear close to the Sun when viewed from Earth. When this happens each planet is said to be in conjunction with the Sun. For the planet that orbits the Sun within the Earth's orbit it can be in conjunction with the Sun twice in its orbit, once when it is between the Sun and the Earth and once when it is on the other side of the Sun from the Earth. When the planet is in conjunction between the the Sun and Earth it is said to be in inferior conjunction and when it is in conjunction on the far side of the Sun from the Earth it is said to be in superior conjunction. For the planet orbiting the Sun outside the Earth's orbit, it can sometimes be on the other side of the sky. At this point the Earth lies between the planet and the Sun. The planet in this case is said to be in opposition. Opposition and conjunction are not just limited to planets and other types of solar system objects such as dwarf planets, comets and asteroids can also be in opposition and conjunction. However only those objects that have an orbit that takes them outside the Earth's orbit can be in opposition. Conjunction is also used to refer to alignments in the sky between planets in the Solar System. For example when Jupiter and Venus appear very close on the sky when viewed from Earth they are said to be in conjunction with each other.
来源： Aneta Margraf/IAU OAE

词汇表: 合 , 冲
分类： 肉眼天文学 , 观测天文学 , 太阳系

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黑体辐射

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图注： 不同温度黑体的辐射曲线。x 轴表示波长，y 轴表示黑体表面每平方米在每个波长下每秒发射的能量。 温度越高的物体，波长越短，发出的最大能量光也越蓝。尽管图中最冷的天体发出的红光达到峰值，但其他较热的天体发出的红光都比最冷的天体多。
来源： IAU OAE/Niall Deacon

词汇表: 黑体辐射 , 电磁辐射 , 波长
分类： 物理学

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黑体辐射--紫外线灾难

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图注： 不同温度黑体的辐射曲线。x 轴表示波长，y 轴表示黑体表面每平方米在每个波长下每秒发射的能量。 温度越高的物体，波长越短，发出的最大能量光也越蓝。尽管图中最冷的天体发出的红光达到峰值，但其他较热的天体发出的红光都比最冷的天体多。 虚线显示的是现代量子力学之前的经典理论所预测的辐射量。对于任何温度高于零的黑体，这一预测在较短波长处都趋于无穷大，被称为 "紫外线灾难"。
来源： IAU OAE/Niall Deacon

词汇表: 黑体辐射 , 电磁辐射 , 波长
分类： 物理学

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