The Amateur Astronomer

• Main Author: Moore, Patrick (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2006.
• Edition: Twelfth Edition.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

Sir Patrick Moore, CBE, FRS is without a doubt the world’s most widely known and respected of broadcasters on astronomy. His BBC-TV program, The Sky at Night, remains the longest-running TV program in the history of broadcasting. For more than three decades The Amateur Astronomer has inspired genera...

Table of Contents:

• Astronomy as a Hobby
• The Unfolding Universe
• Telescopes and Observatories
• The Solar System
• The Sun
• The Moon
• Occultations and Eclipses
• Aurorae and the Zodiacal Light
• The Nearer Planets
• The Outer Planets
• Comets and Meteors
• The Stellar Sky
• The Nature of a Star
• Double Stars
• Variable Stars
• Star Clusters and Nebulae
• Galaxies
• Beginnings and Endings.