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The Planet Observer's Handbook

Author : Fred W. Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521789818

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This is an informative, up-to-date and well-illustrated guide to planetary observations for amateurs. After a brief description of the solar system and a chapter on the celestial sphere, readers are shown how to choose, test and use a telescope with various accessories and how to make observations and record results. For each planet and the asteroids, details are given of observational techniques, together with suggestions for how to make contributions of scientific value. From a general description and detailed observational history of each planet, observers can anticipate what they should see and assess their own observations. The chapter on planetary photography includes the revolutionary use of videography, charge coupled devices and video-assisted drawing. There are also chapters on making maps and planispheres and on photoelectric photometry.

Observer's Handbook

Author : Société royale d'astronomie du Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 00804193

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The Observer's Guide to Planetary Motion

Author : Dominic Ford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781493906291

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To the naked eye, the most evident defining feature of the planets is their motion across the night sky. It was this motion that allowed ancient civilizations to single them out as different from fixed stars. “The Observer’s Guide to Planetary Motion” takes each planet and its moons (if it has them) in turn and describes how the geometry of the Solar System gives rise to its observed motions. Although the motions of the planets may be described as simple elliptical orbits around the Sun, we have to observe them from a particular vantage point: the Earth, which spins daily on its axis and circles around the Sun each year. The motions of the planets as observed relative to this spinning observatory take on more complicated patterns. Periodically, objects become prominent in the night sky for a few weeks or months, while at other times they pass too close to the Sun to be observed. “The Observer’s Guide to Planetary Motion” provides accurate tables of the best time for observing each planet, together with other notable events in their orbits, helping amateur astronomers plan when and what to observe. Uniquely each of the chapters includes extensive explanatory text, relating the events listed to the physical geometry of the Solar System. Along the way, many questions are answered: Why does Mars take over two years between apparitions (the times when it is visible from Earth) in the night sky, while Uranus and Neptune take almost exactly a year? Why do planets appear higher in the night sky when they’re visible in the winter months? Why do Saturn’s rings appear to open and close every 15 years? This book places seemingly disparate astronomical events into an understandable three-dimensional structure, enabling an appreciation that, for example, very good apparitions of Mars come around roughly every 15 years and that those in 2018 and 2035 will be nearly as good as that seen in 2003. Events are listed for the time period 2010-2030 and in the case of rarer events (such as eclipses and apparitions of Mars) even longer time periods are covered. A short closing chapter describes the seasonal appearance of deep sky objects, which follow an annual cycle as a result of Earth’s orbital motion around the Sun.

The Observer's Handbook

Author : Societe royale d'astronomie du Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:299618258

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Observer's Handbook 2006

Author : Rajov Gupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0973810904

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The Moon Observer's Handbook

Author : Fred W. Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521335003

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This book explains in a practical way everything that an amateur astronomer needs to know in order to undertake lunar observations.

Burnham's Celestial Handbook, Volume One

Author : Robert Burnham
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486319025

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Volume I of a comprehensive three-part guide to celestial objects outside our solar system ranges from Andromeda to Cetus. Features coordinates, classifications, physical descriptions, hundreds of visual aids. 1977 edition.

Observer's Handbook 2005

Author : Rajiv Gupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0968914187

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The Observer's Handbook

Author : Sociéte royale d'astronomie du Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:299343474

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The Webb Society Observers Handbook

Author : Webb Society,Kenneth Glyn Jones,David A. Allen,Edmund S. Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015040393699

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Observer's Handbook 2004

Author : Rajiv Gupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0968914144

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The Planet Jupiter

Author : Bertrand Meigh Peek,Patrick Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Jupiter (Planet)
ISBN : 0571180264

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Observer's Handbook

Author : British Astronomical Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : UOM:39015072604328

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The Observer's Handbook ...

Author : Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : UCAL:B4448113

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