Lights in the Sky Identifying and Understanding Astronomical and Meteorological Phenomena /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Maunder, Michael (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Springer London, 2007.
• Σειρά: Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series,
• Θέματα: Popular works.; Meteorology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

Amateur astronomers spend a lot of their time observing the sky, but not everything up there is necessarily an astronomical phenomenon. Nor is everything immediately identifiable. How many people can tell the difference between a Sun Dog and a Glory - both meteorological phenomena? Or between the Zo...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part 1: Identifier
• Daylight
• Dawn and Dusk
• Night
• Part 2: Astronomical and Meteorological Phenomena
• Dawn: Zodiacal light
• Season for pre-dawn sighting
• Red sky, Shepherd's warning
• Crepuscular rays
• Daylight: Haloes and coronas also detached arcs
• Sundogs and mock suns.-Iridescence
• Glories
• Heiligenschein
• Rainbows and fogbows
• Dusk: Zodiacal light Season for twilight sightings
• Red sky Shepherd's delight
• Solar pillars
• Green flash
• Spectre of the Brocken
• Mother of pearl clouds
• Volcanic dust ( Krakatoa 1888, via El Chicon 1981 to Pinatubo 1990)
• Other dust: Bishop's ring, green and blue suns
• Night: Light pollution
• Milky Way
• Messier objects
• Caldwell objects
• Gegenschein
• Lunar haloes
• Lunar rainbows
• Aurorae
• Nacreous clouds
• Noctilucent clouds
• Meteors
• Other phenomena: marsh gas, fireflies: Lightning
• Ball lightning
• UFOs: Human perception
• Mistaken identities
• Astronomical and meteorological
• Man-made
• Extraterrestrial visitors?- Burden of proof
• The Fermi paradox.