Your Guide to the Sky,9781565656529

Your Guide to the Sky

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9781565656529
ISBN10: 1565656520
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-06-01
Publisher(s): Lowell House
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Summary

The simplest, clearest, and best book written on the night sky for beginning astronomers, this guide includes easy-to-follow maps and a month-by-month guide to stargazing. "A lively guide to what's in the sky and how to see it".--"Astronomy" magazine.

Table of Contents

PREFACE vii(1)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS viii
CHAPTER 1 Introduction
1(3)
1.1 What It Takes to Learn the Sky
1(1)
1.2 The Standard Warnings
1(1)
1.3 How This Book Is Arranged
2(1)
1.4 If You're in a BIG Hurry, What to Read First
3(1)
CHAPTER 2 How the Sky--and the Maps--Are Arranged
4(14)
2.1 How the Earth Is Laid Out
4(2)
2.2 Relating the Earth to the Celestial Sphere
6(1)
2.3 How the Earth "Makes the Sky Move"
6(3)
2.4 Showing the "Round" Sky on a Flat Page
9(1)
2.5 Using the Maps to Find the Stars
10(6)
2.6 Your First Night Under the Stars
16(2)
CHAPTER 3 The Path of the Sun, Moon, and Planets Through the Sky--the Ecliptic
18(14)
3.1 Why the Ecliptic Is "Tilted"
18(3)
3.2 Motion of the Sun Along the Ecliptic
21(1)
3.3 Motion of the Moon Along the Ecliptic
21(5)
3.4 Motion of the Planets Along the Ecliptic
26(3)
3.5 Mini-almanac (and Almanacs in General)
29(1)
3.6 Using the Maps and Mini-almanac to Find the Planets
29(3)
CHAPTER 4 Techniques for Viewing the Sky
32(29)
4.1 A Very Short Primer on Light
32(2)
4.2 About Your Eyes
34(3)
4.3 How a Telescope Works
37(14)
4.4 Mounting a Telescope So It Can Move About the Sky
51(4)
4.5 How to Purchase a Good Telescope
55(1)
4.6 A Telescope for Each Eye--Binoculars
56(4)
4.7 Quick Notes on Photographing the Sky
60(1)
CHAPTER 5 Picking a Time and Place for Viewing
61(5)
5.1 The Astronomer's Worst Enemy--Earth's Atmosphere
61(3)
5.2 When and Where to View What
64(2)
CHAPTER 6 Looking at the Sky After Sunset
66(5)
6.1 A Bit More About Scattering
66(1)
6.2 Watching the Sun as It Sets
66(1)
6.3 There's Twilight, and Then There's Twilight
66(1)
6.4 Seeing the Earth's Shadow
67(1)
6.5 Finding the First Stars and Planets (and a Daytime Surprise)
67(1)
6.6 Seeing the Zodiacal Light
68(1)
6.7 Seeing Artificial Satellites
68(1)
6.8 Seeing a Very Young Moon
69(1)
6.9 Seeing the Aurora
69(2)
CHAPTER 7 Inside the Solar System--the Sun, Moon, and Planets
71(22)
7.1 General Description of the Solar System
71(1)
7.2 The Scale of the Solar System
72(1)
7.3 Old Reliable--the Sun
73(4)
7.4 Our Nearest Neighbor--the Moon
77(3)
7.5 Observing the Inner Planets
80(3)
7.6 Observing the Outer Planets
83(5)
7.7 The Leftovers--Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors
88(5)
CHAPTER 8 Outside Our Solar System--the Milky Way Galaxy
93(7)
8.1 About the Milky Way in General
93(1)
8.2 Stars
94(3)
8.3 Some Catchall Notes on Deep-Sky Objects
97(1)
8.4 Nebulae
97(2)
8.5 Clusters of Stars
99(1)
CHAPTER 9 Far Outside Our Solar System--Other Galaxies
100(3)
9.1 How Galaxies Formed
100(1)
9.2 Types of Galaxies
101(1)
9.3 Groups of Galaxies
101(1)
9.4 Observing the Galaxies
102(1)
The ALL-Sky and ZOOM Maps
103(67)
Mini-Almanac 170(5)
Index 175

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