Simple Stargazing

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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