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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Human Vision and the Night Sky
    sub title: Hot to Improve Your Observing Skills
  name:
    name part: Borgia, Michael P.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 292 p. 50 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book is not for beginners. Nor is it for experts – instead it addresses the needs of practical amateur astronomers who want to make the jump to the new challenges of serious visual observing. Second Steps in Observational Astronomy begins by teaching you, as an amateur astronomer, to use the most important tool you have: your eyes. Visual observing is very definitely a skill that can be learned. Of course it is important to have your other optical equipment – telescope and accessories – set up and operating as perfectly as possible. This book describes how. After these vital preliminaries, subsequent chapters include a series of observing challenges that will entertain you and push your observing skills to continually higher levels of excellence for years to come. Take a tour of the solar-system as you never viewed it before, then beyond into the realm of deep space – using just your own eyes to reveal more detail than you ever thought possible.
  table of contents: The Integrated Observing System. Part I:Your Eyes -- The Integrated Observing System. Part II:Your Equipment -- Putting the Integrated Observing System Together -- First Night Out -- Mysteries of the Moon -- Secrets of the Sun -- Mercury, Venus, and the Inner Solar System -- The Enigmas of Mars, the Red Planet -- Comets and Asteroids, the Cosmic Leftovers of Creation -- Jupiter and Saturn, Kings of Worlds -- The Outer Worlds; Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Beyond -- Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (Now Knock It Off!) -- Faint, Fuzzy Things. Part I:P henomena Galactica -- Faint, Fuzzy Things. Part II:The Island Universes.
  note: by Michael P. Borgia.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  classification: QB4
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series
  identifier: 9780387463223
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-46322-3
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204184225.0
    record identifier: 978-0-387-46322-3