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starpug wrote:

jcms science boy wrote:state on saturday.... i'm so happy that the planetarium is not going to be used
Any suggestions or something i should watch out for at state?

Random questions, learn some things that aren't on the list. No planetarium means you might have a coordinator who doesn't understand the event.
Good lUck.

welll the university doesn't have a planetarium, so i think that's the reason. i kind of hate it when the tests are so easy that everyone gets almost everything right.
Should i study the national parts too, just in case? and can u be more specific on some things that aren't on the list?

jcms science boy wrote:

starpug wrote:

jcms science boy wrote:state on saturday.... i'm so happy that the planetarium is not going to be used
Any suggestions or something i should watch out for at state?

Random questions, learn some things that aren't on the list. No planetarium means you might have a coordinator who doesn't understand the event.
Good lUck.

welll the university doesn't have a planetarium, so i think that's the reason. i kind of hate it when the tests are so easy that everyone gets almost everything right.
Should i study the national parts too, just in case? and can u be more specific on some things that aren't on the list?

Emission spectra is what I got last year

thnx. i think my partner might know about that emissionary spectral because both her parents are astronomers (:
I'm hoping she knows everything there is 2 know bout RFS.

In my state, we're doing the planetarium part first... is it hard? I've only been to a planetarium when I was... 5 or so, so I don't remember very much. ((As a distant memory of being a kindergartener, I remember that I couldn't really understand what stars the person with the laser light was pointing to, so I just looked at the lights and listened to the stories XD))

I really like when they have the planetarium, because it's probably the best way to test knowledge of star identification.

Another question: Will we have to ID stars in pictures like this?

I'm guessing not, that seems kind of ambiguous, as a lot of stars look like that. However, some other objects, like supernova remnants, you may need to know. Some examples are on the Reach for the Stars Wiki.

Does anyone have examples of questions asked at State tornaments?

Thanks a billion.

These are taken straight from the 2009 MA test, which i have an exact copy of
1. Plot Sirius B on a H-R diagram
2. Describe the annular eclipse
3. Name a constellation that Comet Lulin was recently found in:
a. libra
b. leo
c. cancer
d. all of the above

as you can see, this was an EXTREMELY easy test. I wish it were more hard.

I remember in last year's state test, we had two stations, one with an inflatable planetarium where you had to identify stars, and the other having to do with the life cycle of a star, stellar classification, etc.