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The 50 best sights in astronomy and how to see them: observing eclipses, bright comets, meteor showers, and other celestial wonders
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John Wiley & Sons
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c2007
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English
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Basic Information for Astronomical Observers: Field of View: 180[degree] (the Whole Sky) to 100[degree] (Naked-Eye Scan) Sight 1: The Starry Sky Sight 2: Total Eclipse of the Sun Sight 3: Meteor Shower or Storm Sight 4: Fireball Meteor Sight 5: The Northern Lights, or Aurora Sight 6: Bright Satellite or Spacecraft Sight 7: The Milky Way, Field of View: 100[degree] to 50[degree] (the Widest Fixed Naked-Eye Field) Sight 8: The Big Dipper and the North Star Sight 9: The Orion Group of Constellations Sight 10: The Summer Triangle Region, Field of View: 50[degree] to 15[degree] (Moderately Wide Naked-Eye Field) Sight 11: Venus and Mercury at Greatest Elongation Sight 12: Venus, Jupiter, and Mars at Brightest Sight 13: Bright Comet with Long Tail Sight 14: Sirius, the Brightest Star Sight 15: Other Bright Stars Sight 16: Orion Sight 17: Other Prominent Constellations, Field of View: 15[degree] to 1[degree] (Narrow Naked-Eye Field, Binoculars Field, and Wide-Telescopic Field) Sight 18: Total Eclipse of the Moon Sight 19: Total Eclipse of the Sun Close-Up
Sight 20: The Moon at Full and Other Phases
Sight 21: Very Thin Crescent Moon
Sight 22: Lunar Conjunctions and Occultations
Sight 23: Planetary Conjunctions
Sight 24: Bright Comet Close-Up
Sight 25: The Hyades Star Cluster and Aldebaran
Sight 26: The Pleiades
Sight 27: Other Very Bright Large Open-Star Clusters
Sight 28: Orion's Belt and Sword
Sight 29: Algol, Mira, and Other Dramatic Variable Stars
Sight 30: Novae, Supernovae, and Supernova Remnants
Sight 31: Starriest Fields
Sight 32: The Sagittarius Milky Way Region
Sight 33: The Great Andromeda Galaxy
Sight 34: The Realm of the Galaxies, Field of View: 1[degree] to 0.1[degree] or Less (Medium to Narrow Telescopic Field)
Sight 35: Overall Telescopic Views of the Moon
Sight 36: Close-Up Views of Lunar Craters and Other Features of the Moon
Sight 37: Sunspots and Other Solar Features
Sight 38: Partial Eclipses of the Sun
Sight 39: Transits of Mercury and Venus
Sight 40: Venus Near Inferior Conjunction
Sight 41: Jupiter and Its Moons
Sight 42: Saturn and Its Rings and Moons
Sight 43: Mars at Closest in a Telescope
Sight 44: Uranus, Neptune, and Other Dim but Important Worlds
Sight 45: A Colorful or Otherwise Striking Double Star
Sight 46: The Great Orion Nebula
Sight 47: A Rich Open Cluster
Sight 48: A Bright Globular Cluster
Sight 49: A Bright Planetary Nebula
Sight 50: A Bright and Structured Galaxy
Appendix A: Total Solar Eclipses, 2008-2024
Appendix B: Major Meteor Showers
Appendix C: Total and Partial Lunar Eclipses, 2007-2017
Appendix D: The Brightest Stars
Appendix E: Transits of Venus and Mercury.
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9780471696575
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