Astro Quiz

• On the occasion of FAREWELL’14 of Astro Club IITk

• Date: 14th Apr, 2014

“Aurea” Rules

• The Organizer is always right.

• Never Argue with the organizer.

• In Case of any discrepancy, The organizer will get a piece of cake.

Rules for the quiz

• As such there are no predefined* rules…

• But they will be made on the fly during the quiz.

Infinte “Controlled” bounce

• Bounce is controlled by the organizer

• On the fly rules• Every second pass u will lose a cake piece

• Every wrong answer u will also loose a cake piece

1.

• What was the day before yesterday(related to astronomy)??

• Yuri Gagarin completed the first orbit of earth

2.

• Richard Hinckley Allen lists many folk names for the X. The English ones include: Jacob's Rod or Staff; Peter's Staff; the Golden Yard-arm; the Ell; the Yard-wand; the Ellwand ; Our Lady's Wand; the Magi; the Three Kings; the Three Marys etc.

• The passage "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of ____?" is found in the Book of Job.

Identify.

• Orion’s Belt

In the lecture hall booking form, how

many signatures in total are needed if AC

is required?

3.

5 (including Coordinator’s)

How many variable barlow lens we have in

the club?

4.

Two

5. Location

• Voldemort ki mata-shri kahan pe hai???

Pleiades

Pleiades bright stars

NamePronunciation

(IPA & respelling)Designation

Apparent magnitude

Stellar classification

Alcyone/ælˈsaɪ.əniː/ al-SY-ə-nee

Eta (25) Tauri 2.86 B7IIIe

Atlas /ˈætləs/ AT-ləs 27 Tauri 3.62 B8III

Electra /ɨˈlɛktʃrə/ i-LEK-trə 17 Tauri 3.70 B6IIIe

Maia/ˈmeɪə/, /ˈmaɪə/ MAY-ə, MY-ə

20 Tauri 3.86 B7III

Merope /ˈmɛrəpiː/ MERR-ə-pee

23 Tauri 4.17 B6IVev

Taygeta/teɪˈɪdʒɨtə/ tay-IJ-i-tə

19 Tauri 4.29 B6V

Pleione /ˈplaɪ.əniː/ PLY-ə-nee 28 (BU) Tauri 5.09 (var.) B8IVpe

Celaeno/sɨˈliːnoʊ/ sə-LEE-noh

16 Tauri 5.44 B7IV

Sterope, Asterope/ˈstɛrɵpiː/, /əˈstɛrɵpiː/ (ə)-STERR-ə-pee

21 and 22 Tauri 5.64;6.41 B8Ve/B9V

— — 18 Tauri 5.65 B8V

6.

• Discoverer of galactic red shift phenomenon???

• James Edward Keeler, Vesto Melvin Slipher, and William Wallace Campbell

7. Id the phenomena

• Solar eclipse

Who were the coordinators of the

Astronomy Club in the year 2008?

Give the complete name.

8.

Saurabh Moondhra

Kumar Saurabh

Rahul Khandelwal

9. What is this??

• It is a star chart with a marked circle and a question mark :P

• No points will be given for “hubble ultra deep field”.

10.

A _________star is a late type star similar to a red giant (or occasionally to a red dwarf) whose atmosphere contains more_________than oxygen; the two elements combine in the upper layers of the star, forming X, which consumes all the oxygen in the atmosphere, leaving ___________ free to form other compounds, giving the star a "sooty" atmosphere and a strikingly red appearance.

• Carbon Star

11. Iska ihaan ka kaam hai bhai???

• Icosahedron eqn(concept of icosahedron is used for planetarium structure)

The arrow which Apollo used to

slay the Cyclopes, to avenge the

death of his son Asclepius who had

been destroyed by a thunderbolt

created on their forge.

12.

Sagitta

Share n lose points

• Questions open to all

• Write down the answers on the piece of paper provided to you.

• If all the six teams get it correct, no points

• If five teams get it -> 5 points

• Four teams get it -> 10 points

• Three teams -> 15 points

• Two teams -> 20 points

• Only one team gets it ->25 points

On the fly rules

• U should score at least 50 points in this round or else ur cake pieces will be gone(quantity determined by the organiser).

1.Le Gentil was commissioned by the French Academe to observe the 1761____________. After three months at sea, he arrived at th1e French colonyof Mauritius to secure a voyage to Pondicherry, only to find the Indianterritory under siege from English warships. Although he had papers grantingsafe passage, Le Gentil failed to receive permission, and the _______occurred while he was sailing back to Mauritius. This clearly made the task ofprecision timing impossible and the opportunity was lost. Rather than giveup, Le Gentil decided to stay in Mauritius for another five years, planning thebest places to observe the next ________ in 1769. With the war over andletters of support from the Governor of Mauritius and the French Academe,Le Gentil boarded a Spanish ship bound for Manila in May. Unfortunately,after all his meticulous planning and a three-month voyage, Le Gentil wasaccused by the Spanish Governor of being a foreign spy. He fled Manila forPondicherry, to observe the _______ from the Indian Ocean destination. Onthe night before the 1769 ________, the weather in Pondicherry was clearand everything was set. But, after nine years waiting for this fateful moment,the wind changed and the _____, clouded out, was unobservable.

• Venus Transit

2.

The total solar eclipse of 29th May 1919 was one of the most awaited ones. The Eclipse was the only chance to "turn off" the light from the Sun and make observations possible. Two teams were sent to two separate sites for observation.

Which theory was being tested?

• GTR

3.My beloved children, I want to tell you that on the day after the departure of our brothers Kuntz and Michel, on a Friday, we saw three suns in the sky for a good long time, about an hour, as well as two rainbows.

These had their backs turned toward each other, almost touching in the middle, and their ends pointed away from each other. And this I, Jakob, saw with my own eyes, and many brothers and sisters saw it with me.

After a while the two suns and rainbows disappeared, and only the one sun remained. Even though the other two suns were not as bright as the one, they were clearly visible.

Which natural phenomenon is being talked about?

• SunDog

4. Name the phenomena and where was it first used

• Gravitational Slingshot, and Luna 3

5. Who is the author of OAAR proposal version 1.3 ?5.

Ronak Shah

What were the total number of

items that were ordered along

with the 14” telescope(for

OAAR)?

6.

5 (including telescope)

How many secretaries of the

Astronomy Club were there in the year

2011 as per the Astronomy Club

website?

7.

Twelve

X is a red man with three eyes and

four arms, riding in a chariot drawn

by seven mares. Identify X.

8.

Sun

X is a great warrior, born with a

battle-axe in his hands. He is said

to have exterminated

the entire warrior class twenty-one

times. This makes him the most

famous of all men

in India. Identify X.

9.

Parsu-Rama (Perseus)

When X was about to kill his

mother Callisto who had been

transformed into a bear, Zeus

raised the pair to heavens as the

constellations Arctophylax (the

Bear-Watcher) and Ursa (the

Bear). Identify X.

10.

Bootes

11.

• X is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, although it is far larger—20 times as wide and 20 to 200 times as massive. Like the asteroid belt, it consists mainly of small bodies, or remnants from the Solar System's formation. While most asteroids are composed primarily of rock and metal, X objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles (termed "ices"), such as methane, ammonia and water.

• Kuiper Belt

12. • In May 2010, an astronomical event gained widespread popularity. Here are

some statements regarding the same:

• This is not the first time this has happened, X goes missing every 10 years or so. In fact, it's disappeared about 18 times since the turn of the 19th century.

• It's possible, that some 'ammonia cirrus' has formed on top of X, hiding it from view.

• It's like a missing tooth. There is disorder on Jupiter — and we just don't know why.

What is being talked about?

• Jupiter loses a stripe