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A Stargazing Program for Beginners
A Pocket Field Guide
Taschenbuch von Jamie Carter
Sprache: Englisch

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Sets out a simple month-by-month program to reveal all of the night sky's biggest and most beautiful secrets in just one year ¿ and with only a few hours of stargazing each month
By investing just an hour a week and [...] in binoculars, it¿s possible to learn a few simple techniques and quickly gain a real insight into the night sky's ever-changing patterns ¿ and what they tell us about Earth, the seasons and ourselves. Searching more for a learned appreciation of nature and our exact place within the cosmos than academic scientific knowledge, science and travel writer Jamie Carter takes the reader on a 12 month tour of the night sky's incredible annual rhythms that say so much about Earth. During the journey he learns about the celestial mechanics at work in the skies above that are ¿ to the beginner ¿ almost beyond belief. As well as the vital constellations and clusters, and the weird and wonderful nebulas, he searches out ¿dark sky destinations¿ across the globe that help increase knowledge and give a new perspective on familiar night sky sights. On the journey he witnesses a solar eclipse and grapples with star-charts, binoculars, smartphone apps, telescopes, spots satellites and attempts basic astro-photography. By year's end, the reader will be able to glance at the night sky from anywhere on the planet and tell what direction he or she is facing, what time it is, where all the planets are and even where the Galactic Center Point is.
Sets out a simple month-by-month program to reveal all of the night sky's biggest and most beautiful secrets in just one year ¿ and with only a few hours of stargazing each month
By investing just an hour a week and [...] in binoculars, it¿s possible to learn a few simple techniques and quickly gain a real insight into the night sky's ever-changing patterns ¿ and what they tell us about Earth, the seasons and ourselves. Searching more for a learned appreciation of nature and our exact place within the cosmos than academic scientific knowledge, science and travel writer Jamie Carter takes the reader on a 12 month tour of the night sky's incredible annual rhythms that say so much about Earth. During the journey he learns about the celestial mechanics at work in the skies above that are ¿ to the beginner ¿ almost beyond belief. As well as the vital constellations and clusters, and the weird and wonderful nebulas, he searches out ¿dark sky destinations¿ across the globe that help increase knowledge and give a new perspective on familiar night sky sights. On the journey he witnesses a solar eclipse and grapples with star-charts, binoculars, smartphone apps, telescopes, spots satellites and attempts basic astro-photography. By year's end, the reader will be able to glance at the night sky from anywhere on the planet and tell what direction he or she is facing, what time it is, where all the planets are and even where the Galactic Center Point is.
Über den Autor
Jamie Carter is a journalist based in the United Kingdom with 17 years experience of communicating science and technology via articles in magazines, newspapers and online. In his work as a travel journalist he has written several eye-witness articles and reports on everything from the aurora borealis, total solar eclipses and stargazing to the dark sky destinations, astro-tourism and astro-photography. His work has been published by the BBC Sky At Night magazine and website, MSN, LifeHacker, Real Travel and Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper, for which Jamie is a regular columnist. Jamie also owns and edits the [...] website. While reporting from under some of the darkest skies the world has to offer, Jamie became convinced that stargazing should be an essential part of any trip or outdoor vacation. His efforts to learn as much as possible about the night sky in one calendar year led to some intensive research, incessant stargazing, and an unexpected obsession with the lunar calendar. It led to a series of articles for the BBC Sky At Night magazine, which inspired this book.
Zusammenfassung

Sets out a simple month-by-month program to reveal all of the night sky's biggest and most beautiful secrets in just one year - and with only a few hours of stargazing each month

Geared towards the total novice; includes no mathematics and does not presume any knowledge of physics

Includes details on places to stargaze and vacation ideas for dark sky destinations (the emphasis being on places where a dark sky is an added bonus rather than the sole reason to visit)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.- Part I: The Wide-Eyed View.- January: Where Am I?- February: Soaked in Stars.- March: The Plane Truth.- Part II: A Closer Look.- April: The Galaxy Revealed.- May: Binocular Tours and the ISS.- June: The Night Shift.- July: Deep South.- August: Moonrise, Meteors and the Milky Way.- Part III: Deep Sky.- September: Third Layer.- October: Andromeda Galaxy.- November: Return of the Kings.- December: One Orbit Complete.- Part IV: Dark Sky Destinations.- Upside-Down Stargazing.- Eclipses and Aurora.- Finding Dark Skies.- Appendix: Stargazing Resources.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Astronomie
Genre: Physik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 436
Reihe: Astronomer's Pocket Field Guide
Inhalt: xvi
419 S.
3 s/w Illustr.
150 farbige Illustr.
419 p. 153 illus.
150 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9783319220710
ISBN-10: 3319220713
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 978-3-319-22071-0
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Carter, Jamie
Auflage: 1st ed. 2015
Hersteller: Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG
Astronomer's Pocket Field Guide
Maße: 203 x 127 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Jamie Carter
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2015
Gewicht: 0,465 kg
preigu-id: 104575606
Über den Autor
Jamie Carter is a journalist based in the United Kingdom with 17 years experience of communicating science and technology via articles in magazines, newspapers and online. In his work as a travel journalist he has written several eye-witness articles and reports on everything from the aurora borealis, total solar eclipses and stargazing to the dark sky destinations, astro-tourism and astro-photography. His work has been published by the BBC Sky At Night magazine and website, MSN, LifeHacker, Real Travel and Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper, for which Jamie is a regular columnist. Jamie also owns and edits the [...] website. While reporting from under some of the darkest skies the world has to offer, Jamie became convinced that stargazing should be an essential part of any trip or outdoor vacation. His efforts to learn as much as possible about the night sky in one calendar year led to some intensive research, incessant stargazing, and an unexpected obsession with the lunar calendar. It led to a series of articles for the BBC Sky At Night magazine, which inspired this book.
Zusammenfassung

Sets out a simple month-by-month program to reveal all of the night sky's biggest and most beautiful secrets in just one year - and with only a few hours of stargazing each month

Geared towards the total novice; includes no mathematics and does not presume any knowledge of physics

Includes details on places to stargaze and vacation ideas for dark sky destinations (the emphasis being on places where a dark sky is an added bonus rather than the sole reason to visit)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.- Part I: The Wide-Eyed View.- January: Where Am I?- February: Soaked in Stars.- March: The Plane Truth.- Part II: A Closer Look.- April: The Galaxy Revealed.- May: Binocular Tours and the ISS.- June: The Night Shift.- July: Deep South.- August: Moonrise, Meteors and the Milky Way.- Part III: Deep Sky.- September: Third Layer.- October: Andromeda Galaxy.- November: Return of the Kings.- December: One Orbit Complete.- Part IV: Dark Sky Destinations.- Upside-Down Stargazing.- Eclipses and Aurora.- Finding Dark Skies.- Appendix: Stargazing Resources.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Astronomie
Genre: Physik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 436
Reihe: Astronomer's Pocket Field Guide
Inhalt: xvi
419 S.
3 s/w Illustr.
150 farbige Illustr.
419 p. 153 illus.
150 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9783319220710
ISBN-10: 3319220713
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 978-3-319-22071-0
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Carter, Jamie
Auflage: 1st ed. 2015
Hersteller: Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG
Astronomer's Pocket Field Guide
Maße: 203 x 127 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Jamie Carter
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2015
Gewicht: 0,465 kg
preigu-id: 104575606
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