A
Aberration of light 220
Absolute magnitude 170
Acamar (star) 260
Achernar (star) 260
Acrux (star) 169
Adams, J. C. 130
Adhara (star) 248
AE Aurigae (‘runaway star’)
252, 253
Agena (B-type star) 256
Airy Transit Circle 168
Al Dhanab (star) 258
Al Ma’mun 12
Al-Sûfi 240
Albireo (Beta Cygni) (star) 177
Alcock, George 181, 234
Alcor (star) 176, 218
Alcyone (star) 250
Aldebaran (type K. A giant star)
173, 250
Aldrin, Buzz 50, 51
Algenib (star) 242
Algol (Beta Persei; Demon Star)
(eclipsing binary star) 178,
241
Alkaid 200, 218
Allen, D. A. 122
Almaak (Gamma Andromedae)
(double star) 176, 240
Almagest(Ptolemy of
Alexandria) 12, 212
Alnair (star) 258
Alnilam (star) 248
Alnitak (Zeta Orionis) (star)
189, 248
Alpha Capricorni (star) 176
Alpha Centauri group 171
Alpha Centauri (Rigel
Kent[aurus]; Toliman)
(binary star) 167, 177, 216,
217, 256
Alphard (Solitary One) (star)
230
Alpheratz (star) 240, 242
ALSEP see(Apollo Lunar
Surface Experimental Package)
Altair (star) 217, 232
Aludra (star) 248
Amalthea (satellite of Jupiter)
102, 103
Amateur astronomy 126, 166,
224, 255, 264–5
choosing a telescope 266–7
discoveries 234–5, 256
comets 138
nova 181
equipment needed 264–7
extinction table 243
Galileans 103
and Halley’s Comet 140
home observatories 268–9
Palitzsch 140
photography 219
supernovae 201
using small telescopes 96
value of 96–7, 179, 181, 201,
264
variable star work 179, 226
Andromeda (constellation) 240
Andromeda Spiral (galaxy) see
M31
Ångström, Anders 20, 159
Ankaa (star) 258
Antares (red supergiant) 177,
217, 238
Antlia (constellation) 254
Antoniadi, E. M. 64, 68, 112
maps of Mars 77
Apollo Lunar Surface
Experimental Package
(ALSEP) 50–1Apollo space missions 50–1
Apollo 8 50
Apollo 9 50
Apollo 10 50
Apollo 11 27, 50, 54
Apollo 12 50
Apollo 13 50
Apollo 14 26, 50–1
Apollo 15 50
Apollo 16 50
Apollo 17 43, 50–1, 54
Apus (constellation) 261
Aquarius (constellation) 244–5
Aquila (constellation) 234
Ara (constellation) 256–7
Arbour, R. W. 269
Arcturus (star) 169, 217, 224
Arich (Porrima; Postvarta)
(binary star) 228
Ariel (satellite of Uranus) 126,
127, 128
Aries (constellation) 168, 240–1
Aristarchus of Samos 12
Aristotle 12
Armstrong, Neil 26, 50
Arneb (supergiant star) 249
Arp, Halton 202
Artificial satellites 24–5
communication 24
military 24
orbits 24
photography 264
Explorer 1 23
International Ultra-violet
Explorer (IUE) 24–5
ROSAT 24
Sputnik 1 23, 24
Telstar 24
Asteroid belt 34, 90, 139
Asteroids 34, 90–93, 148
Amor type 92
Apollo type 92
Aten type 92
captured 103, 116
Centaurs 137
collision with Earth 92
colour 137
and comets 92
contact binary 92, 93
Cubewanos 137
Damocloid 92, 137
and dinosaur extinction 36
discovery 90
Earth’s climate 36
from Kuiper Belt 137
as Martian satellites 81
and meteroids 92
number discovered 90
orbits 92–93
organic compounds on 90
planetary satellites 132
Plutinos 137
Pluto as possible 135
positions illustrated 93
retrograde motion 132
shape and size 90
spectroscopic study 90
surveyed from close range 81
Trojans 92–3, 117
Asbolus 137
Astraea 90
Ceres 90, 137
Chiron 119, 137
Eros 90, 92, 93
Geographos 52
Icarus 92
Ida 81
Jovian satellites 103
Juno 90
Mathilde 90
Nessus 137
Pallas 90, 137Pholus 137
588 Achilles 92
446 Aeternitas 90
95 Arethusa 90
246 Asporina 90
5335 Damocles 92
7968 Elst–Pizarro 92
5261 Eureka 92
951 Gaspra 81, 90
2340 Hathor 92
624 Hektor 92
944 Hidalgo 92
243 Ida 81, 91
878 Mildred 90
3200 Phaethon 90, 92, 139
5145 Pholus 137
16 Psyche 90
1992 QB 1137
1996 TL 66137
279 Thule 90
4179 Toutatis 92, 93
3 Vesta 90, 91
No. 4015 (previously comet)
92, 93, 139
Astraea (asteroid) 90
Astrology 12
Astronomer Royal 140, 219, 220
Astronomical instruments
orrery 12
Sydney University Stellar
Interferometer (SUSI) 172
Astronomy 264–5
X-ray 21
amateur seeAmateur
astronomy
ancient 168, 199
Arab 166, 218, 240
Baghdad school 12
Chinese 102, 140, 166, 188,
212, 227
distances observable 202
Egyptian 166, 168, 169, 212
extinction table 242
gamma-ray 21
Greek 12, 166, 169, 212, 220,
227, 250
history of 12–13
infra-red 21, 238
International Astronomical
Union 208
interstellar code 209
invisible 20–1
‘missing mass’ problem 196,
207
as profession 264
radio 21, 196, 202, 229
Virgo A (3C-274) 229
SETI (Search for Extra-
Terrestrial Intelligence) 208
Atlas (satellite of Saturn) 112
Auriga (constellation) 252–3
Auriga (star) 252
Aurorae 40–1, 162, 163
auroral ovals 41
cause 41
colour 41
forms 40
Jupiter 98
Neptune 131
observation of 264
Uranus 124
Autumnal Equinox (First Point
of Libra) 168B
B Lyrae (Sheliak) eclipsing
binary star 232
Baade, Walter 194
Babcock, H. 157
Barnard, Edward Emerson 103,
236Barnard 68 190
Barnard’s Star (Munich 15040)
170, 171, 236
Baxendell, Joseph 224
Bayer, Johann 166, 218, 221,
226, 259, 261
Bean, Alan (astronaut) 50
Becklin–Neugebauer Object
(BN) 189
Beer, Wilhelm 76
Bellatrix (star) 248
Bellissima (star) 228
Bessel, Friedrich 170, 171
Beta Centauri (star) 167, 216,
217
Beta Lyrae (eclipsing binary
star) 178
Beta Pictoris (star) 208
Betelgeux (type M. A red
supergiant) 166, 167, 168, 172,
173, 179, 216, 238, 248, 250
HR Diagram 173
right ascension 168
Bevis, John 182
Biela, Wilhelm von 139
‘Big Bang’ 206–7
‘Big Crunch’ 207
Binocular observation 252, 265
comet discovery 181
globular clusters 187, 237, 256
Hyades cluster 250
M33 Triangulum Spiral 240
Milky Way 197
Neptune 130
nova discovery 181
R Scuti variable star 234
stellar clusters 186
stellar colour contrasts 250,
258
supergiant star 222
Titan 117
Triangulum Spiral 198–9
variable stars 225
Binoculars
choosing 264–5
BL Lacertae 223
BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs)
202, 223
Black dwarf 155, 175
Black holes 175, 184–5, 202
at galactic centre 184–5, 196
detection 184
formation 184
Hubble Space Telescope image
185
interior 185
in M87 185, 229
powering galaxies 200–1
Schwarzschild radius 184
Blaze Star seeT Coronae
Blue stragglers 187, 258
Bode, Johann 224
Bok, Bart J. 174, 190
Bok globules 174, 190
Boötes (constellation) 224
Bopp, Thomas 145
Bradley, James 220
Brahe, Tycho seeTycho Brahe
Braun, Wernher von 22, 23, 28
British Aerospace 30
brown dwarf 172
Bubble Nebula 31
Bunker, Anne 114
Bunsen, Robert 158
Burbridge, Dr Geoffrey 202
Butterfly Nebula 190
Bykovsky, Valery 26C
Caelum (constellation) 260
Caesar, Julius 208Caldwell Catalogue (C) 186
Calendars 12
Caliban (satellite of Uranus)
126, 127
Callirrhoe (satellite of Jupiter)
103
Callisto (satellite of Jupiter) 99,
103, 104
composition 102
craters 107
illustrated 99, 102, 107
orbit 103
structure 102
transits 102
Calypso (satellite of Saturn) 117
Camelopardalis (constellation)
223
Cameras seePhotography
Cancer (constellation) 227
Canes Venatici (constellation)
218
Canis Major (constellation) 167,
248
Canis Minor (constellation)
248–9
Canopus (star) 166, 169, 215,
216, 217, 254
brightness 108, 167
Capella (type G8 star) 172,
214–5, 252
HR Diagram 173
Capricornus (constellation) 244
Carbon in stars 175
Carina (constellation) 254
Cartwheel Galaxy A0035 31, 201
Cassini, G. D. 110
Cassini Division seeSaturn (ring
system)
Cassini probe 32–3, 95, 97, 113,
114–5, 120–1
Cassiopeia (constellation) 199,
217, 222
Castor (binary star) 177, 251
Celestial equator 168
‘Celestial Police’ 90
Celestial sphere 168–9
Centaurus A (NGC5128)
(galaxy) 201, 256
Centaurus (constellation) 256
Cepheids 194, 199, 223
Delta Cephei 178
dwarf 258
types 194
variable 173, 178, 179, 234
ZZ Carinae 254
Cepheus (constellation) 222–3
Ceres (asteroid) 90
Cernan, Eugene 51
Cetus (constellation) 217, 246
Chaldene (satellite of Jupiter)
103
Chamaeleon (constellation) 261
Chandra 25
Chandrasekhar limit 182
Charge-coupled device (CCD)
18
Chi Cygni 179
Mira type star 179
Chiron (asteroid) 119
Circinus (constellation) 256
Clementine lunar probe 52–3
Clusters seeStellar clusters
Coal Sack (dark nebula) 167,
189, 257
Collins, Michael 50
Colour
asteroids 137
aurorae 41
colour-coded images 72, 74
false 14
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