Stars and Planets The Most Complete Guide to the Stars, Planets, Galaxies, and the Solar System - Fully Revised and Expanded Edition

Name: Stars and Planets The Most Complete Guide to the Stars, Planets, Galaxies, and the Solar System - Fully Revised and Expanded Edition
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ISBN: 9780691135564

ISBN-10: 0691135568

ISBN-13: 9780691135564

Edition: 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Ian Ridpath, Wil Tirion

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In this new edition of their classic work, Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion illuminate the night sky as never before, providing novice stargazers and professional astronomers alike with the most comprehensive and authoritative celestial field guide available. With superb color sky charts, diagrams, or photographs on almost every page, and clear and engaging writing,Stars and Planetsis the most user-friendly and informative guide to the night sky. The product of more than twenty years' collaboration between one of the world's leading astronomy writers and the world's foremost celestial mapmaker, the newStars and Planetsfeatures a slightly larger (but still compact) size, a more spacious and…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/23/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.52" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Section I


Introduction


The star charts


Northern and southern hemisphere skies


Monthly skies throughout the year


The 88 constellations: Andromeda to Vulpecula


Section II


Stars and nebulae


Double and multiple stars


Variable stars


Milky Way, galaxies and the Universe


The Sun


The Solar System


The Moon


Moon maps


Eclipses of the Sun and Moon


Mercury


Venus


Mars


Jupiter


Saturn


Uranus, Neptune and beyond


Comets and meteors


Asteroids and meteorites


Astronomical instruments and observing


Index