YOUR ASTRONOMY TRAINING
Small games. A whole sky.
Recognise, locate and measure. Choose a skill and prepare for IOAA observing tasks through play.
CHOOSE YOUR SKILL
What will you practise today?
Times are estimates for a short practice. Set your own pace and session length.
Name the constellation
Read the star pattern and match it to the right constellation.
Constellation hunt
Get a name, find its location. Build your bearings on a full sky chart.
Name the star
Identify the marked bright star from its position in the star field.
Star hunt
Locate a named star on the chart and sharpen your sense of the sky.
Name the Messier object
Use sky position to identify one of 110 nebulae, clusters and galaxies.
Messier hunt
Find the requested deep-sky object on the celestial chart.
Star memory
Turn over cards and pair star names with their Bayer designations.
Bayer order
Find a constellation’s stars on the chart in Greek-letter order.
Angular separation
Estimate the angle between two points in the sky and train spatial judgement.
RA and declination
Read or locate equatorial coordinates in the J2000.0 system.
Extra stars
Inspect a familiar star pattern and remove added points that do not belong on the real chart.
Missing stars
Complete the star pattern: mark the position of a missing bright star and learn its name.
Planets among stars
For a given date, distinguish planets from stars, mark them and identify their names.
Place the Sun
Use the month and date to locate the Sun along the ecliptic among the stars.
Charts: Hipparcos / HYG · Sun and planets: JPL model · photographs: 2MASS (UMass/IPAC) and DSS2 (STScI/NASA/CDS).
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MARATHONS
From practice to a marathon.
Create a room and play a live match with friends.
Session length, motion, sound and haptics.