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Weird Astronomy Tales of Unusual, Bizarre, and Other Hard to Explain Observations /

You go out for a night's observing and look up at the sky. There are all the usual suspects-a splattering of stars, the Moon, Venus, maybe Mercury and Mars. Perhaps you can identify some of the constellations. If you are using binoculars or a small telescope, you can see many wonders not reveal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Seargent, David A.J (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
Colección:Astronomers' Universe,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Our Weird Moon
  • Odd and Interesting Happenings Near the Sun
  • Planetary Weirdness
  • Weird Meteors
  • Strange and Star-like Objects
  • Moving Mysteries and Wandering Stars
  • Facts, Fallacies, Unusual Observations and Other Miscellaneous Gleanings
  • Appendix 1: The Danjon Scale of Lunar Eclipse Brightness
  • Appendix 2: Lunar Eclipses 2011 - 2050
  • Appendix III: Solar Eclipses 2011 - 2030
  • Appendix IV: Transits of Mercury 2016 - 2100
  • Index.