| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 226 pages) : color illustrations |
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Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series |
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Patrick Moorеђ́ةs Practical Astronomy Series, 1431-9756 |
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Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series.
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Patrick Moorеђ́ةs Practical Astronomy Series. 1431-9756
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"This book is a truly comprehensive guide to observing, identifying, and imaging sky glows and other unusual atmospheric/astronomical phenomena, in both the night and daytime skies."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
wetenschap |
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science |
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astronomie |
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astronomy |
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Sciences (General) |
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Empirische wetenschappen (algemeen) |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| In |
Springer e-books |
| Subject |
Astronomy -- Observers' manuals.
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Meteorology -- Observers' manuals.
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NATURE -- Sky Observation.
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Meteorology.
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Astronomy.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Astronomie.
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Astronomy
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Meteorology
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks, manuals, etc
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handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Moore, Patrick.
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| LC no. |
2006940070 |
| ISBN |
9781846287619 |
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1846287618 |
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6611340092 |
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9786611340094 |
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