| Description |
143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Note |
Copyrighted by Pavilion Books Company. |
| Summary |
Astronomy for the amateur astronomer, with 50 illustrations to guide the user to astronomical patterns. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Ideal observing -- Telescopes and binoculars -- Navigating the skies -- Extra tricks and tools -- Naked eye. The Milky Way -- Star-crossed lovers -- The North (for now) Star and how to find it -- The next north star -- Apollo 11 landing site -- Astronauts! (the International Space Station) -- Shooting stars -- Halley's and other comets -- A very famous belt -- A red supergiant (Betelgeuse) -- The dog star -- A punished queen -- The Pleiades -- Lunar halos -- The Morning Star -- A green flash -- A solar eclipse -- Supermoon! -- Noctilucent clouds -- The Southern Cross -- Aurora -- Blue skies -- Sun dogs -- Magellanic clouds. |
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Further afield. Andromeda galaxy -- Sunspots -- Orion nebula -- Lunar craters -- Galilean moons -- Saturn's "ears" -- A storm as big as the Earth -- Martian ice caps -- Swan nebula -- A bubble in space -- Perseus double star cluster -- "Little green men" -- The great cluster in Hercules -- A colourful double -- Far, far away. Olympus Mons -- "Failed stars" -- Enceladus' ice volcano -- Hot Jupiters -- A baby solar system -- Spirals and ellipticals -- A light echo -- A white flag -- Galaxy groups and clusters -- Quasars -- Pillars of creation -- Hubble deep field -- Glossary. |
| Subject |
Astronomy -- Popular works.
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Astronomy -- Observers' manuals.
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Amateur astronomy.
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Amateur astronomy. (OCoLC)fst01744900
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Astronomy. (OCoLC)fst00819673
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals. (OCoLC)fst01423877
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Popular works. (OCoLC)fst01423846
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| Added Author |
Nilsson, Maria, 1979 June 7- illustrator.
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| Added Title |
Fifty things to see in the sky |
| ISBN |
9781616898007 (hardcover) |
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1616898003 |
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