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

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...

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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,
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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.