Weird Astronomy : Tales of Unusual, Bizarre, and Other Hard to Explain Observations

You go out for a night s observing and look up at the sky. There are all the usual suspects a splattering of stars, the Moon, Venus, maybe Mercury and Mars. Perhaps you can identify some of the constellations. If you are using binoculars or a small telescope, you can see many wonders not revealed to...

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Autore principale: Seargent, David A.J
Natura: Livre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: New York, NY : Springer New York : Springer e-books : Imprint: Springer : Springer e-books [20..].
Cham : Springer Nature
Serie:Astronomers' Universe
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Edition sous un autre format:• Weird Astronomy, Texte imprimé, 9781441964236
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  • Preface Our Weird Moon Odd and Interesting Happenings Near the Sun Planetary Weirdness Weird Meteors Strange and Star-like Objects Moving Mysteries and Wandering Stars Facts, Fallacies, Unusual Observations and Other Miscellaneous Gleanings Appendix 1: The Danjon Scale of Lunar Eclipse Brightness Appendix 2: Lunar Eclipses 2011 - 2050 Appendix III: Solar Eclipses 2011 - 2030 Appendix IV: Transits of Mercury 2016 - 2100 Index