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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Observer's Guide to Planetary Motion
    sub title: Explaining the Cycles of the Night Sky
  name:
    name part: Ford, Dominic.
    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: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 240 p. 76 illus., 25 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: To the naked eye, the most evident defining feature of the planets is their motion across the night sky. It was this motion that allowed ancient civilizations to single them out as different from fixed stars. But how does the geometry of the Solar System give rise to the observed motions of the planets and their moons? Although the motions of the planets may be described as simple elliptical orbits around the Sun, they must be observed from a particular vantage point--the Earth, which spins daily on its axis and circles around the Sun each year, resulting in more complicated patterns. The Observer’s Guide to Planetary Motion provides accurate tables of the best time for observing each planet, together with other notable events in their orbits, helping amateur astronomers plan when and what to observe. Along the way, many questions are answered: Why does Mars take over two years between apparitions (the times when it is visible from Earth) in the night sky, while Uranus and Neptune take almost exactly a year? Why do planets appear higher in the night sky when they’re visible in the winter months? Why do Saturn’s rings appear to open and close every 15 years? This book places seemingly disparate astronomical events into an understandable three-dimensional structure.
  table of contents: The Motion of the Planets -- The Outer Planets -- The Inner Planets -- Mars -- The Moon -- The Deep Sky.
  note: by Dominic Ford.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences
  classification: QB4
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
  identifier: 9781493906291
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0629-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 140514
    record change date: 20151029221532.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4939-0629-1