All About Space Astronomer Book - 2014 UK

Astronomer Guide to the stars t Viewing planets t Astrophotography The complete guide to observing the night sky ...

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Gazing up at the sky, you can get an idea of the wonders that our galaxy holds. With the naked eye you can view a sea of stars, ...

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Astronomy is one of the oldest of the sciences, and even today most of the names we use for stars date back to the time of the a ...

To anyone brought up in the UK in the last 60 years, Sir Patrick Moore - the father of modern astronomy in Britain - needs no in ...

Contents 10 Introduction Discover what our universe has to offer, and get a brief overview of the fascinating celestial bodies j ...

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Astronomer Book Solar System, our everyday units such as the mile and kilometre are suitable; in deep space they are not. Even t ...

[3] A thin crescent Moon showing earthshine and the planet Mercury lie close to the Pleiades open cluster. [4] The planets Venus ...

names, such as Microscopium (the Microscope) and Telescopium (the Telescope). This is particularly true for the stars in the far ...

8 Introduction [8] The beautiful double star Albireo in the constellation Cygnus. [9] The Markarian Chain, part of the Virgo Gal ...

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Earth and sky Noctilucent clouds. CHAPTER 1 EARTH AND SKY ...

example using a camera with a telephoto lens – a distinct green edge and detachments can often be seen during clear horizon suns ...

Earth and sky seen either side of the Moon during a lunar halo, they are known as Moon dogs (paraselenae). Rainbow This is a com ...

Cloud Iridescence Water droplets or small ice crystals in a layer in front of the Sun or Moon can produce a palette of vivid pas ...

Glory A glory is an optical phenomenon appearing in the clouds like a projection of the observer’s head with a halo of light aro ...

[11] The gegenschein visible in the dark skies over the VLT in Paranal, Chile (credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky). [12] The Moon photograp ...