Edexcel - GCSE - Astronomy

Edexcel GCSE - Astronomy

Edexcel | GCSE | Astronomy | Naked-eye Astronomy

Planet Earth

01

Earth's structure

02

Latitude and longitude

03

Earth's Atmosphere

Edexcel | GCSE | Astronomy | Naked-eye Astronomy

The lunar disc

04

The shape of the Moon

05

Surface features of the Moon

06

The Moon's orbit

Edexcel | GCSE | Astronomy | Naked-eye Astronomy

The Earth-Moon-Sun system

07

Eratosthenes (276 - 194 BCE)

08

Aristarchus (310 - 230 BCE)

09

Lunar Eclipse

10

Solar Eclipse

11

Tides

12

Precession

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Time and the Earth-Moon-Sun cycles

13

Sidereal and synodic time

14

Lunar phases

15

Earth's seasons

16

Sundial and shadow sticks

17

Equation of time

18

The Sun's analemma

19

The Longitude saga

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Solar System observation

20

Observing the Sun

21

The Ecliptic Plane

22

Observing Planetary Motion

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Celestial observation

23

Constellations

24

Important Constellations

25

Pointer stars

26

Celestial Coordinate System

27

Diurnal motion

28

Circumpolar Stars

29

Naked Eye Observing

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Early models of the Solar System

30

Observations of the Lunar and Solar Cycles

31

Ptolemaic Solar System

32

Copernican Solar System

33

Tychonian Solar System

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Planetary motion and gravity

34

Origin of Kepler's Law

35

Kepler's first law

36

Kepler's second law