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|a Maunder, Michael
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|a Lights in the Sky
|h Elektronische Ressource
|b Identifying and Understanding Astronomical and Meteorological Phenomena
|c by Michael Maunder
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|a 1st ed. 2007
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|b Springer London
|c 2007, 2007
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|a Part 1: Identifier -- Daylight -- Dawn and Dusk -- Night -- Part 2: Astronomical and Meteorological Phenomena -- Dawn: Zodiacal light -- Season for pre-dawn sighting -- Red sky, Shepherd's warning -- Crepuscular rays -- Daylight: Haloes and coronas also detached arcs -- Sundogs and mock suns.-Iridescence -- Glories -- Heiligenschein -- Rainbows and fogbows -- Dusk: Zodiacal light Season for twilight sightings -- Red sky Shepherd's delight -- Solar pillars -- Green flash -- Spectre of the Brocken -- Mother of pearl clouds -- Volcanic dust ( Krakatoa 1888, via El Chicon 1981 to Pinatubo 1990) -- Other dust: Bishop's ring, green and blue suns -- Night: Light pollution -- Milky Way -- Messier objects -- Caldwell objects -- Gegenschein -- Lunar haloes -- Lunar rainbows -- Aurorae -- Nacreous clouds -- Noctilucent clouds -- Meteors -- Other phenomena: marsh gas, fireflies: Lightning -- Ball lightning -- UFOs: Human perception -- Mistaken identities -- Astronomical and meteorological -- Man-made -- Extraterrestrial visitors?- Burden of proof -- The Fermi paradox
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|a The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
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|a 10.1007/978-1-84628-761-9
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|a Amateur astronomers spend a lot of their time observing the sky, but not everything up there is necessarily an astronomical phenomenon. Nor is everything immediately identifiable. How many people can tell the difference between a Sun Dog and a Glory - both meteorological phenomena? Or between the Zodiacal Light and the Gegenschein, which are astronomical? Lights in the Sky is a truly comprehensive guide to observing, identifying, and imaging sky glows and other unusual atmospheric/astronomical phenomena, in both the night and daytime skies. If, as a practical observer, you want to be able to identify what it is when you are faced, for example, with the Specter of the Brocken - or with an unidentified flying object that is...well, unidentified...then Lights in the Sky will provide all the practical scientific information you need
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