The total skywatcher's manual : 275+ skills and tricks for exploring stars, planets & beyond
Record details
- ISBN: 9781616288716 :
- ISBN: 161628871X
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Physical Description:
print
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm - Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Weldon Owen, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Naked-eye astronomy tips. Meet the universe ; Dissect a star ; Learn stellar classification ; Discover star groups ; Spot the closest stars ; Top five: Recognize ideal skywatching conditions ; Go urban or rural ; Pack a beginner skywatching kit ; Optimize your vision ; Improvise a red flashlight ; Notice the brightness and color of stars ; Navigate the northern celestial sphere ; See the sights in the southern hemisphere ; Witness zodiacal light at dawn ; Spot morning and evening planets ; Rediscover sunrise ; Meet the sun ; Understand solstices and equinoxes ; Get the reasons for the seasons ; Explore ancient astronomical markers ; Track the sun with an analemma ; Create your own solargraphs ; Make your own planisphere ; Look south with your planisphere ; Measure the heavens ; Top five: Zone the sky ; Time the sunset with your fingers ; Measure degrees of separation in the sky ; Start at the Big Dipper ; Pinpoint Arcturus ; Locate Regulus ; Suss out Spica ; Test vision with the Big Dipper ; Track time with the Little Dipper ; Assemble a star clock ; Find your way by the wind, stars, and waves ; Use the Big Dipper to locate Polaris ; Orient yourself with a gnomon ; Find south in the southern hemisphere ; Find the southern cross ; Bag the coalsack ; Locate Centaurus ; Sail over to Vela ; Check out Capricornus ; Hunt down Hydrus ; Look for Libra ; Gaze upon Carina ; Top five: Track things that move above ; Locate the celestial equator ; Find 0hr right ascension ; Use Orion to measure spherical coordinates ; Trace Draco the Dragon ; Hunt down Ursa Major ; Follow Ursa Minor ; Get a glimpse of the giraffe ; Begin at Orion ; Get yourself to Gemini ; Track down Taurus the bull ; Find Canis Major and Canis Minor ; Gaze at the majestic Milky Way ; Glimpse spilled grain in the Cherokee Milky Way story ; See more Milky Way myths ; Spot a llama in the Incan Milky Way ; Learn how the aboriginals see the Milky Way ; Luck out with noctilucent clouds ; Feast your eyes on afterglow ; Glimpse the green flash ; Meet the moon ; Decode the phases of the moon ; Understand the moon illusion ; Watch the tides come and go ; Spot some strange moons ; Meet the man on the moon, all over the world ; See the crescent moon around the globe ; Watch the moon turn red in a lunar eclipse ; Read a lunar eclipse map ; Put together a lunar eclipse model ; Meet Mercury ; Begin with Pegasus the flying horse ; Pinpoint 51 Pegasi ; Find Andromeda the princess ; Scout Perseus the hero ; Acquaint yourself with faint Aries ; Chase the Charioteer ; Behold Corona Borealis ; Hail King Cepheus ; Explore the zodiacs of different cultures ; Tell a meteor from a meteroid ; Pick the best time to meteor-watch ; Top five: Go on a meteorite hunt ; Name that meteor shower ; Save the date for meteor showers ; Meet Venus ; Demystify the auroras' colors ; Pick a prime spot to aurora-gaze ; Journey for the auroras ; Time your aurora travel ; Probe Earth's atmosphere ; Catch a glimpse of glories ; Check out sun and moon dogs ; Demystify twinkling stars ; Spot a solar or lunar halo ; Meet Mars ; Catch a conjunction ; Witness planets in transit ; Watch an occulation ; Scope planets at maximum elongation ; Observe planets in retrograde ; Stay up all night for oppposition ; Model the solar system with paper ; Understand planets' relative sizes ; Start at the summer triangle ; Detect Delphinus ; Fly with Aquia the eagle ; Soar with Cygnus the swan ; Find Lyra ; Locate Hercules ; Set your sights on Hydra ; Track the serpent bearer ; Catch the southern fish ; See Sagittarius ; Say hello to the first great skywatchers ; Meet Jupiter -- |
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Subject: | Stars Observers' manuals Constellations Observers' manuals Astronomy Observers' manuals Astronomy Constellations Stars |
Genre: | Handbooks and manuals. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Skagit Evergreen Libraries.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Burlington Public Library | 523.8022 SHORE 2015 | 39851001290536 | Non-fiction | Available | - |