Skywatching
Author | : David H. Levy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : 9781740895781 |
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Author | : David H. Levy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : 9781740895781 |
Author | : Tammy Plotner |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0978221400 |
Author | : David H. Levy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781877019067 |
A introduction to the magic and mysteries of the constellations, galaxies, and wonders of the night sky.
Author | : Jeff Barbour |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2006-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1411682874 |
What's Up 2006: 365 Days of Skywatching presents the highlights you can see in the night sky for every day in 2006. With a small telescope, binoculars, and sometimes just your eyes, you'll track down features on the Moon, planets, meteor showers, bright and double stars, open and globular clusters, and distant galaxies.Astronomers Tammy Plotner and Jeff Barbour are your guides to the wonders of the night sky.
Author | : Becky Ramotowski |
Publisher | : Sky & Telescope |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : 9781931559409 |
Here's the perfect how-to book for recreational stargazers. It's loaded with practical advice to help new observers spend more time exploring the night sky and less time fumbling with equipment or wondering how, when, and what to observe. In Secrefs of Stargazing you'll discover how to: Quickly get started stargazing if you're the lucky recipient of a new telescope, Plan your observing sessions and record your observations, Stargaze in the city - despite the lights, Quickly and easily prepare your telescope for a night under the stars, Use star charts and discover star-hopping, See faint objects without actually looking at them, Observe in comfort, Decipher weather reports and understand sky transparency and seeing conditions, Find others in your area who share your love of the night sky. Whether or not you own a telescope, Secrets of Stargazing is loaded with tips and tricks that are guaranteed to make you a better observer. It's a volume that no novice stargazer should be without. Book jacket.
Author | : David H. Levy |
Publisher | : Time Life Medical |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000-03 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : 9780737000795 |
This highly acclaimed, best-selling series takes field guides to a breathtaking new level. Filled with full-color maps, diagrams, photographs, and sketches, each book takes readers on an exciting armchair adventure through some of the most fascinating places in the natural world -- and offers practical advice for those planning real-life expeditions.
Author | : Douglas Isbell |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2016-12-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0816536686 |
With its clear skies and low humidity, the southwestern United States is an astronomer’s paradise where observatories like Kitt Peak have redefined the art of skywatching. The region is unique in its loose federation of like-minded research outposts and in the quantity and diversity of its observatories—places captured in this unique guidebook. Douglas Isbell and Stephen Strom, both intimately involved in southwestern astronomy, have written a practical guide to the major observatories of the region for those eager to learn what modern telescopes are doing, to understand the role each of these often quirky places has played in advancing our understanding of the cosmos, and hopefully to visit and see the tools of the astronomer up close. For each observatory, the authors describe its history, highlights of its contributions to astronomy—with an emphasis on recent results—and information for visitors. Also included are wide-ranging interviews with astronomers closely associated with each site. Observatories covered range from McDonald in Texas to Palomar in California, with significant outposts in between: Arizona’s Kitt Peak National Observatory southwest of Tucson, the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, and the Whipple Observatory outside Amado; and New Mexico’s Very Large Array near Socorro and Sacramento Peak close to Sunspot. In addition to describing these established institutions, they also take a look ahead to the most powerful ground-based telescope in the world just beginning to operate at full power on Mount Graham in Safford, Arizona. With more than three dozen illustrations, Observatories of the Southwest is accessible to amateur astronomers, tourists, students, and teachers—anyone fascinated with the contributions that astronomy has made to deepening our understanding of humanity’s place in the universe, whether exploring the solar system from Lowell Observatory or studying the birth of stars using the army of giant radio telescopes at the Very Large Array. This book aims to inspire visits to these sites by illuminating the major scientific questions being pursued every clear night beneath the dark skies of the Southwest and the amazing machinery that makes these pursuits possible.
Author | : Jamie Hogan |
Publisher | : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2021-10-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0884488993 |
Tamen longs to see the stars, but none are visible in the light-polluted sky above the fire escape of his urban apartment building. Even in the neighborhood park, the stars are hidden by city lights. This is a story about love and sacrifice: Tamen’s mom, a nightshift nurse, finds a way to take him camping. For one magical night on the shore of a wilderness pond, the Milky Way in all its glory belongs to them.
Author | : Andrew Fazekas |
Publisher | : National Geographic |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : 1426220154 |
Volume packed full of information that illuminates key astronomical concepts along side the history and legends surrounding the stars and planets.
Author | : Anthony F. Aveni |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Archaeoastronomy |
ISBN | : 9780304349982 |
Discusses England's Stonehenge, the Mayan Code, and the Incan city of Cuzco.