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  title info:
    title: Weird Astronomy
    sub title: Tales of Unusual, Bizarre, and Other Hard to Explain Observations
  name:
    name part: Seargent, David A.J.
    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: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 304 p. 46 illus., 18 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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 revealed to the naked eye but still well known to telescope users for centuries. But what if you look up and see something completely new, something unexplainable. Do your eyes deceive you? Are you really seeing what you think you are seeing? What should you do? In this fascinating account of the many oddball things people – from novice astronomers to certified experts – have observed over the years, you will be introduced to a number of unusual – and sometimes still unexplainable – phenomena occurring in our usually familiar and reassuring skies. What exactly did they see? What discoveries followed these unusual sightings? What remains unexplained? In addition to the accounts, you will find scattered throughout the book a number of suggested astronomy projects that you can do yourself. The projects range from very basic to a bit more challenging, but all are fun and all are very instructive about unusual sightings. Be sure to try them!
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by David A.J. Seargent.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: QB460-466
  classification: QB980-991
  classification: 520
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Astronomers' Universe
  identifier: 9781441964243
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6424-3
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    record creation date: 100927
    record change date: 20151030021233.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4419-6424-3