Celestial Delights The Best Astronomical Events Through 2020 /

• Main Author: Reddy, Francis (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series,
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Popular Science in Astronomy.

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 observati...

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.