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50 things to see in the sky, Sarah Barker ; illustrated by Maria Nilsson

eng

illustrations

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non fiction

50 things to see in the sky

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Sarah Barker ; illustrated by Maria Nilsson

"Astronomy for the amateur astronomer, with 50 illustrations to guide the user to astronomical patterns." --, (Source of summary not specified)

Introduction -- Ideal observing -- Telescopes and binoculars -- Navigating the skies -- Extra tricks and tools -- Naked eye. The Milky Way -- Star-crossed lovers -- The North (for now) Star and how to find it -- The next north star -- Apollo 11 landing site -- Astronauts! (the International Space Station) -- Shooting stars -- Halley's and other comets -- A very famous belt -- A red supergiant (Betelgeuse) -- The dog star -- A punished queen -- The Pleiades -- Lunar halos -- The Morning Star -- A green flash -- A solar eclipse -- Supermoon! -- Noctilucent clouds -- The Southern Cross -- Aurora -- Blue skies -- Sun dogs -- Magellanic cloudsFurther afield. Andromeda galaxy -- Sunspots -- Orion nebula -- Lunar craters -- Galilean moons -- Saturn's "ears" -- A storm as big as the Earth -- Martian ice caps -- Swan nebula -- A bubble in space -- Perseus double star cluster -- "Little green men" -- The great cluster in Hercules -- A colourful double -- Far, far away. Olympus Mons -- "Failed stars" -- Enceladus' ice volcano -- Hot Jupiters -- A baby solar system -- Spirals and ellipticals -- A light echo -- A white flag -- Galaxy groups and clusters -- Quasars -- Pillars of creation -- Hubble deep field -- Glossary

Fifty things to see in the sky