Celestial Delights The Best Astronomical Events Through 2020
Celestial Delights is the essential 'TV Guide' for the sky. Through extensive graphics integrated with an eight-year-long calendar of sky events, it provides a look at "don't miss" sky events, mostly for naked-eye and binocular observing. It is organized by ease of observati...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, NY
Springer New York
2012, 2012
|
| Edition: | 3rd ed. 2012 |
| Series: | The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | |
| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Chapter 1: The Meaning of the Sky
- Chapter 2: Moon Dance
- Chapter 3: Morning Stars, Evening Stars - Venus and Mercury
- Chapter 4: Eclipses of the Sun and Moon
- Chapter 5: Mars - the Red Wanderer
- Chapter 6: Distant Giants - Jupiter and Saturn
- Chapter 7: Introduction to the Starry Sky
- Chapter 8: Meteors and Meteor Showers
- Chapter 9: Unpredictable Events
- Appendix A: Timetable of Celestial Events through 2020
- Appendix B: Phases of the Moon, 2011 - 2020
- Appendix C: Greatest Elongations of Mercury and Venus, 2011 - 2020
- Appendix D: Oppositions of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, 2011 - 2020
- Glossary
- Index