Simple Stargazing
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Anton Vamplew. Simple Stargazing
Contents
Dedication
Introduction
Part 1 Getting Started
A Brief History
Constellations
Adventures in Darkness
Step-by-step guide to stargazing. 1
2
3
4
Northerly humans start here
Southerly humans read this
Travels into the Darkness
How Big is the Darkness?
How to Use the Star Charts
Bright or Dim?
Stars
Double stars
Top tips for double-star viewing
Variable stars
Top tips for variable-star viewing
Starry Objects
Galactic clusters
Globular clusters
Nebulae
Galaxies
Starry object catalogues
Part 2 The Northern Charts
North Celestial Pole Chart
January to March Skies
Star Sights
Orion
Taurus
Auriga
Gemini
April to June Skies
Star Sights
Ursa Major
Ursa Minor
Draco
Camelopardalis
Boötes
Canes Venatici
Coma Berenices
Leo
Cancer
Virgo
July to September Skies
Star Sights
Cygnus
Lyra
Aquila
Vulpecula
Hercules
Ophiuchus
Scutum
October to December Skies
Star Sights
Cassiopeia
Perseus
Cepheus
Pegasus
Equuleus
Andromeda
Triangulum
Aries
Pisces
Aquarius
Cetus
Part 3 The Southern Charts
South Celestial Pole chart
January to March Skies
Star Sights
Canis Major
Puppis
Dorado
Reticulum
April to June Skies
Star Sights
Hydra
Centaurus
Crux
Vela
Carina
July to September Skies
Star Sights
Capricornus
Libra
Scorpius
Sagittarius
Corona Australis
Triangulum Australe
October to December Skies
Star Sights
Eridanus
Octans
Tucana
Part 4 Sun, Moon and Planets
The Moon
The lunar seas
The motion of the Moon
Observing the Moon
Eclipses. Lunar eclipses
Top tips for lunar-eclipse viewing
Solar eclipses
Viewing a solar eclipse
Viewing solar eclipses safely
Step-by-step guide to pin-hole eclipse watching
The Planets
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
The Asteroids
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Planets and Days
Notes
The Milky Way
Watching Satellites and the ISS
Comets
Shooting Stars
Top tips for meteor-shower observing
Step-by-step guide to meteor-watching. 1
2
3
List of yearly meteor showers
A Final View of Everything
Astro Glossary
Going Further. Further Reading
Magazines (available in the UK)
Societies
Multimedia (CD Rom)
Websites
Places to visit in the UK
Index
Acknowledgements
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Cover
Title Page
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Your imagination can take you anywhere on the space super-highway. Then again, maybe this will become reality.
I’m already having a slight problem trying to imagine this relatively tiny Earth-to-Moon distance, so what chance do I have with larger gaps? For example, the distance from my house to the Sun is a massive 150 million km – that’s already getting pretty big and we haven’t left our solar system. The nearest star after the Sun, called Proxima Centauri, is about 40 trillion km from my front door and, by moving deeper into space, we can find the Andromeda galaxy, a close star system that is 26 quintillion km away!
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