Have you got interest in amateur astronomy?
Amateur Astronomy is a great hobby. It is also a great learning opportunity about planets, constellations, galaxies, movement of planets across the constellations, shifting of constellations in the night sky etc.On a clear night sky away from city lights one can simply glance up and can try to visualise the various imaginary shapes made by the group of stars and these shapes are the constellations. As stars are very far from us these shapes remain same and due to the Earth's rotation around its axis from West to East the constellations appear to move from East to West.
Comparatively, the planets of our solar system are very near to us and they also appear in the night sky moving across these constellations. The simple way to distinguish between stars and planets is that stars will twinkle but planets will look like light dots.
A lot of observations can be made by amateur astronomer with the naked eye but if he has a telescope it will give more deep knowledge about the sky and its content above us.
As Earth revolves around Sun and takes one complete round in one year so after one year the observer will see the same pattern of constellations in the sky as he had seen a year back.
It is amazing that our ancestors in Indian peninsula made so many observations about the night sky and had even named the constellations and stars in a particular way and even did find their distances and other things using their simple mathematical methods based on yearly observations.
Have you also got any interest in amateur astronomy? Please share your views about it.