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  title info:
    title: Celestial Delights
    sub title: The Best Astronomical Events Through 2020
  name:
    name part: Reddy, Francis.
    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: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 423 p. 132 illus., 34 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Celestial Delights is the essential 'TV Guide' for the sky. Through extensive graphics integrated with an eight-year-long calendar of sky events, it provides a look at "don't miss" sky events, mostly for naked-eye and binocular observing. It is organized by ease of observation – lunar phases and the brighter planets come first, with solar eclipses, the aurora, and comets coming later. This third edition also includes a hefty dose of sky lore, astronomical history, and clear overviews of current science. It provides a handy reference to upcoming naked-eye events, with information broken out in clear and simple diagrams and tables that are cross-referenced against a detailed almanac for each year covered. This book puts a variety of information all in one place, presents it in a friendly way that does not require prior in-depth astronomical knowledge, and provides the context and historical background for understanding events that astronomy software or web sites lack.
  table of contents: Preface -- Chapter 1: The Meaning of the Sky -- Chapter 2: Moon Dance -- Chapter 3: Morning Stars, Evening Stars - Venus and Mercury -- Chapter 4: Eclipses of the Sun and Moon -- Chapter 5: Mars - the Red Wanderer -- Chapter 6: Distant Giants - Jupiter and Saturn -- Chapter 7: Introduction to the Starry Sky -- Chapter 8: Meteors and Meteor Showers -- Chapter 9: Unpredictable Events -- Appendix A: Timetable of Celestial Events through 2020 -- Appendix B: Phases of the Moon, 2011 - 2020 -- Appendix C: Greatest Elongations of Mercury and Venus, 2011 - 2020 -- Appendix D: Oppositions of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, 2011 - 2020 -- Glossary -- Index.
  note: by Francis Reddy.
  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
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series
  identifier: 9781461406105
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0610-5
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    record creation date: 111111
    record change date: 20151103131133.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4614-0610-5