Peterson First Guide to Solar System

Name: Peterson First Guide to Solar System
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ISBN: 9780395971949

ISBN-10: 0395971942

ISBN-13: 9780395971949

Edition: 2nd 1999

Authors: Jay M. Pasachoff, Wil Tirion, Roger Tory Peterson

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Budding astronomers--backyard or armchair--will learn not only where to look for the planets in the nighttime sky but also how space missions to the planets and their moons have increased our understanding of Earth, its atmosphere, and the moon. More than 100 spectacular color photographs, including views from the Hubble Space Telescope of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, as well as the latest Voyager photographs of Neptune. The latest scientific information on other solar systems and extraterrestrial life, charts showing where to find the planets in the night sky, and much more.

Book details

List price: $5.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 3/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 3.75" wide x 7.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

Jay Pasachoff is a Professor of Astronomy at Williams College. He is a veteran of 56 solar eclipse expeditions, which have taken him all over the world to study the sun over the sunspot cycle. He received the Education Prize from the American Astronomical Society. His undergraduate textbooks in astronomy have been widely used. He is already involved in planning for education and public outreach for the 2017 total solar eclipse for which totality will stretch from Oregon to South Carolina and for which the whole of the continental United States and Canada will see at least a partial eclipse.