The Night Sky Observer's Guide: Spring & summer
Author : George Robert Kepple
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Astronomy
ISBN :
Author : George Robert Kepple
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Astronomy
ISBN :
Author : Christian B. Luginbuhl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 1998-09-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521625562
The most detailed guide to observing the deep sky in one volume, now available in paperback.
Author : R. Newton Mayall
Publisher : Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1466864877
This eBook is best viewed on a color device. Filled with practical information for the amateur astronomer, this Sky Observer's Golden Guide explains: -How to select and use binoculars and telescopes -How to best observe stars, the moon, planets, comets, meteors, and other celestial objects -How to use star charts Profusely illustrated with photographs, diagrams, charts, and tables, this guide is recommended by leading astronomers.
Author : Neil Bone
Publisher : Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN :
'Deep Sky' refers to the universe beyond our own solar system. Using binoculars or telescopes, any sky-gazer can become a deep sky observer. Deep Sky Observer's Guide looks beyond individual stars to target: Star clusters Double Stars Nebulae Galaxies. The Deep Sky Observer's Guide introduces the basics of observing and explains what equipment is required. A chapter is devoted to each type of deep sky target. There are more than 200 such objects featured, with 126 color illustrations and star-finder charts. The Deep Sky Observer Guide is also available in a convenient pack (ISBN: 1-55407-025-2) that comes with deep sky charts and an observing calendar.
Author : Robert Newton Mayall
Publisher : Golden Guides from Saint Martin's Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780307240095
Discusses how to select and use binoculars and telescopes, how to observe planets, meteors, comets, and other celestial bodies, and how to use star charts.
Author : Dominic Ford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 1493906291
To the naked eye, the most evident defining feature of the planets is their motion across the night sky. It was this motion that allowed ancient civilizations to single them out as different from fixed stars. “The Observer’s Guide to Planetary Motion” takes each planet and its moons (if it has them) in turn and describes how the geometry of the Solar System gives rise to its observed motions. Although the motions of the planets may be described as simple elliptical orbits around the Sun, we have to observe them from a particular vantage point: the Earth, which spins daily on its axis and circles around the Sun each year. The motions of the planets as observed relative to this spinning observatory take on more complicated patterns. Periodically, objects become prominent in the night sky for a few weeks or months, while at other times they pass too close to the Sun to be observed. “The Observer’s Guide to Planetary Motion” provides accurate tables of the best time for observing each planet, together with other notable events in their orbits, helping amateur astronomers plan when and what to observe. Uniquely each of the chapters includes extensive explanatory text, relating the events listed to the physical geometry of the Solar System. Along the way, many questions are answered: Why does Mars take over two years between apparitions (the times when it is visible from Earth) in the night sky, while Uranus and Neptune take almost exactly a year? Why do planets appear higher in the night sky when they’re visible in the winter months? Why do Saturn’s rings appear to open and close every 15 years? This book places seemingly disparate astronomical events into an understandable three-dimensional structure, enabling an appreciation that, for example, very good apparitions of Mars come around roughly every 15 years and that those in 2018 and 2035 will be nearly as good as that seen in 2003. Events are listed for the time period 2010-2030 and in the case of rarer events (such as eclipses and apparitions of Mars) even longer time periods are covered. A short closing chapter describes the seasonal appearance of deep sky objects, which follow an annual cycle as a result of Earth’s orbital motion around the Sun.
Author : George Robert Kepple
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 9780943396583
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 1995-10-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521554916
Superbly illustrated, up-to-date, expanded version of Hartung's indispensable guide, useful to amateur and expert observers.
Author : Robin Scagell
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780933346758
Offers amateur astronomers a guide to techniques and available technologies for observing the night sky from an urban location, discussing optimal weather conditions, ways to reduce the effects of light, different types of telescopes, and readily seen celestial bodies
Author : Mike Inglis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 2004-01-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781852337421
One of the wonders of the universe we live in is the Milky Way. It spans the entire sky and can be seen every night of the year from anywhere on Earth. This is the first book that deals specifically with what can be seen within the Milky Way from a practical observer's point of view. Astronomy of the Milky Way covers every constellation that the Milky Way passes through, and describes in detail the many objects that can be found therein, including stars, double and multiple stars, emission nebulae, planetary nebulae, dark nebulae and supernovae remnants, open and galactic clusters, and galaxies. It also describes the one thing that is often left out of observing guides - the amazing star clouds of the Milky Way itself. It is one of a two-volume set that deal with the entire Milky Way - this second volume looks at what can be seen predominantly from the Southern skies In addition to the descriptive text there are many star charts and maps, as well as the latest up-to-date images made by observatories around the world and in space, as well as images taken by amateur astronomers. Equipped with this book, an amateur astronomer can go out on any clear night of the year and observe the galaxy we live in - The Milky Way.