Lights in the Sky Identifying and Understanding Astronomical and Meteorological Phenomena
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 Zo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Springer London
2007, 2007
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007 |
| Series: | The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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