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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Seargent, David A.J (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Σειρά: Astronomers' Universe,
• Θέματα: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Popular Science in Astronomy.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.