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Latest revision as of 14:58, 24 July 2020
| Slide Number 1
Title slide |
Welcome to this Spoken tutorial on Celestial Bodies and Constellations. |
| Slide Number 2
Learning Objectives |
In this tutorial we will learn about,
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| Slide Number 3
System Requirements |
To record this tutorial, I am using,
The process demonstrated is this tutorial is identical in,
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| Slide Number 4
Pre-requisites |
To practise this tutorial, learner should be familiar with Marble interface.
For the prerequisite Marble tutorials, please visit this site. |
| Cursor on the interface. | I have opened the Marble interface in the default Atlas view. |
| Drag the - button on the windrose | Let us zoom out to see the black sky. |
| Right-click on Overview map, select Hide option from context menu.
Hide Compass and Scalebar plugins. |
I will hide Overview map, Compass and Scalebar for clarity. |
| Point to the interface.
Rotate the globe and point to the sky. |
Black coloured surface on the interface represents the sky on a clear night.
When we rotate the globe, we can see various objects present in the sky. These objects are called celestial bodies. |
| Cursor on the interface.
Click on Settings >> select Panels >> select Hide All Panels. |
We will now hide all the panels.
Go to the Settings menu and select Panels. From the sub-menu select Hide All Panels. |
| Rotate the globe.
Point to Sun, Moon stars and others. |
To see more objects in the sky let us keep rotating the globe.
Notice that we can see sun, moon, stars and other celestial bodies. |
| Point to the stars.
Point to the sun. |
Here we can see the countless bright stars in the sky.
The nearest star to the Earth is the Sun. |
| Point to the stars. | Our best estimates tell us that the Milky Way is made up of approximately 100 billion stars. |
| Cursor on the interface. | Let us now configure the settings for stars in the Marble interface |
| Click on Settings >> select Configure Marble Virtual Globe option.
Configure window opens. |
Click on the Settings menu.
Select Configure Marble Virtual Globe option. Configure window opens. |
| From the left panel, select Plugins option.
Point to Plugins menu. Point to the scroll bar at the right side of the plugins menu. |
From the left panel, select the Plugins tab.
Plugins menu opens in the right panel. At the extreme right of the Plugins menu we see a scroll bar. |
| Scroll down and locate Stars plugin
Plugins menu >> click on the Configure button corresponding to Stars. |
Let us scroll down and locate Stars plugin.
Click on the Configure button corresponding to Stars. |
| Point to Configure Stars Plugin window.
Point to the two tabs namely Celestial Objects and Lines and Orientation.
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Configure Stars Plugin window opens.
This window has two tabs, Celestial Objects and Lines and Orientation. Celestial Objects tab opens by default. |
| Point to the different options in the Celestial Objects tab | In the Celestial Objects tab, we can see different sections. |
| Point to Star Magnitude Limit section | Go to Star Magnitude Limit.
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| Point to the slider under Star Magnitude Limit
Drag slider to 0 magnitude.
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Under Star Magnitude Limit we can see a slider to change the magnitude.
Drag the slider to 0 magnitude.
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| Point to the plain black surface. | Notice that stars have disappeared from the interface.
Now we can clearly see the celestial bodies. |
| Right-click anywhere >> context menu >> select Configure option. | To open Configure Stars Plugin window, right-click anywhere on the black sky.
A context menu opens.. Select Configure option from the menu. |
| Point to Solar System option | In the Configure Stars Plugin window, next section is Solar System |
| Scroll down and show the names of planets.
Scroll down. |
This section has check-boxes for Sun, Moon and planets in the solar system.
Let us scroll down to see all the check-boxes. |
| Point to the checked boxes. | By default, sun and moon check-boxes are checked. |
| Check the boxes of all the planets. | We will check all the boxes to see the planets in the sky. |
| Point to Earth check-box. | Observe that we cannot click on Earth check-box as we are observing from Earth. |
| Point to these 2 check-boxes. | Next we have two check-boxes.
Use name labels and Magnify Sun and Moon.
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| Point to the check-boxes. | These check-boxes are used to show the names of sun, moon and other planets. |
| Point to Other section | Other section represents Deep Sky objects.
For now we will leave them as default. |
| Click on the OK button
Point to Sun in the sky. |
Now click on the OK button in the window. |
| Point to the objects which form some shapes . | We can see some lines and shapes in the sky. They are constellations. |
| Slide Number 5
Constellations |
Let us see what are constellations.
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Constellations |
Constellations are usually named after mythological characters, people, animals and objects.
Out of which 12 are zodiac signs. |
| Cursor on the black sky. | For better visibility, I will change the colour of the constellations. |
| Right-click anywhere on the black sky.
Point to context menu Select Configure option from the menu. |
To open Configure Stars Plugin window, right-click anywhere on the black sky.
Select Configure option from the context menu. |
| Configure Stars Plugin window opens.
Click on the Lines and Orientation tab |
Configure Stars Plugin window opens.
Click on the Lines and Orientation tab. |
| Under Constellations >> point to the check-boxes Lines and Labels.
Click on the box corresponding to Lines. |
Under Constellations, we can see two check-boxes, Lines and Labels.
Click on the button corresponding to Lines. |
| Point to colour window.
Select yellow colour from the box. Click on the Ok button |
Colour window opens.
I will select yellow colour from the window. Click on the OK button in the window. |
| Click on the box corresponding to Labels.
From the colour box select rose colour. Click on the OK button in the box. |
Next click on the button corresponding to Labels.
From the colour window I will select red colour. Click on the OK button in the color window. |
| Point to Names.
Point to the drop-down button corresponding to Names. Click on the drop-down button. Latin Name is selected. |
Below Labels we can see Names drop-down.
In the drop-down, Latin Name is selected by default. I will leave it as it is. |
| Point to Coordinate Grid section
Point to Celestial Equator, Celestial Poles, and Ecliptic check-boxes |
Next is the Coordinate Grid section.
Under the Coordinate Grid, we see Celestial Equator, Celestial Poles and Ecliptic check-boxes. I will leave them as default. |
| Click on the Celestial Objects tab | Now let us make the stars visible on the interface.
Click on the Celestial Objects tab. |
| Under Star Magnitude Limit >> drag the slider to 7 magnitude
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Under Star Magnitude Limit , drag the slider to 7 magnitude.
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| Point to the constellations. | We can see the changes in the Lines and Labels of each constellation. |
| Rotate and point to each constellations.
Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. |
Rotate the globe to see the various zodiac signs. |
| Slide Number 7
Summary
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Let us summarise.
In this tutorial we have learnt about
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Assignment |
As an assignment
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About the Spoken Tutorial Project |
The video at the following link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project.
Please download and watch it. |
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Spoken Tutorial workshops |
The Spoken Tutorial Project team:
conducts workshops using spoken tutorials and gives certificates. For more details, please write to us. |
| Slide Number 11
Forum for specific questions |
Please post your timed queries in this forum. |
| Slide Number 12
Acknowledgement Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by,
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Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by,
MHRD, Government of India.
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