Pattern Asterisms (eBook)

A New Way to Chart the Stars

John Chiravalle (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2007 | 2006
XIV, 172 Seiten
Springer London (Verlag)
978-1-84628-476-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This book provides a valuable learning tool to facilitate identifying patterns and stars in the sky. Suitable for observers using binoculars and medium size telescopes, this catalog includes star pictures, dot-to-dot outlines of the objects (on a negative photograph for clarity), and an artistic image next to the star patterns. Size, stellar magnitudes, and coordinates are provided, along with north direction, star-hopping instructions and Sky Atlas 2000 references. With the help of this book, the imaginative observer will soon begin to develop a new insight into star patterns, and will start seeing patterns of their own.

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Since the very beginning of astronomy, people have looked up sky and constructed patterns - the constellations - out of the almost random scattering of stars in the night sky. The fact that the constellations are still used to day reflects not their historical origins, but their usefulness in identifying bright stars in the rotating dome of the sky. Most people (and all astronomers) are familiar with, for example, the constellation of Orion and can thus easily point to Betelguese and Bellatrix as being Orion's "e;shoulders"e;. It is the pattern made by the constellation that makes them easy to identify.Suitable for observers using binoculars and medium size telescopes, this catalog includes star pictures, dot-to-dot outlines of the objects ( on a negative photograph for clarity ), and an artistic image next to the star patterns. Size, stellar magnitudes, and coordinates are provided, along with north direction, star-hopping instructions and Sky Atlas 2000 references.The imaginative observer will surely begin to develop a new insight into star patterns, and will start seeing patterns of his own, under this catalog's influence!

Inhalt

Introduction
Stellar Patterns for Binoculars & Wide Field Telescopes ( intro. )


Lists
3. List of Constellations & Asterisms ( stellar patterns )
4. List of Pattern Asterisms by Right Ascension
5. List of Asterisms ( stellar patterns ) at Zenith by Month

Catalog
6. Maps and Details by Constellation ( 29 constellations in all )
7. Catalog acknowledgments

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.4.2007
• Reihe/Serie: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
• Reihe/Serie: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 172 p. 120 illus., 40 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Asterisms • Asterisms sky • Astronomy • Chart • constellations figures • recognizing constellations • Star • star drawings • star patterns book • Stellar
• ISBN-10: 1-84628-476-7 / 1846284767
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84628-476-2 / 9781846284762