Human Vision and the Night Sky Hot to Improve Your Observing Skills /

• Main Author: Borgia, Michael P. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006.
• Series: Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series,
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Popular Science in Astronomy.

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 mo...

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.