Viewing the Constellations with Binoculars 250+ Wonderful Sky Objects to See and Explore
The night sky is filled with stellar wonders, sparkling jewels that hide within them fantastic faraway suns. The ancients saw pictures formed by the stars and thus were born the constellations, which are still used today to identify and locate stars. After providing enough background information on...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
2010, 2010
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2010 |
| Series: | The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Background
- About Binoculars (And Everything Connected to Them)
- Celestial Mechanics
- Those Wonderful Distant Suns
- Nonstellar Objects
- Using Models to Understand Our Place in Space and Time
- Preparing for Observation Sessions
- Constellations
- Andromeda to Boötes (The Herdsman)
- Caelum (The Chisel) to Draco (The Dragon)
- Eridanus (The River) to Lyra (The Lyre)
- Microscopium (The Microscope) to Puppis (The Stern)
- Sagitta (The Arrow) to Vulpecula (The Fox)