The Star Atlas Companion What you need to know about the Constellations /

• Main Author: Bagnall, Philip M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Physics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science in Astronomy.

The Star Atlas Companion is the ideal companion to any star atlas, as it is the first book to provide a true perspective on the characteristics and distances of over 1,100 stars and their movement through space. With the aid of scale diagrams, the reader can grasp difficult-to-understand concepts su...

Table of Contents:

• About this book
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Making sense of the data
• The Constellations
• Andromeda to Chamaeleon
• Circinus to Indus
• Lacerta to Pisces
• Piscis Australis to Vulpecula
• Index.