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Stars & planets : the complete guide to the stars, constellations, and the solar system /

"In this newly updated and expanded 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 informative, user-friendly, comprehensive, and authoritative celestial field guide...

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Main Authors: Ridpath, Ian
Group Author: Tirion, Wil; Ridpath, Ian.
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton, N.J. :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: Updated and expanded edition.
Series: Princeton field guides
Subjects:
Astronomy
Stars
Planets
Summary: "In this newly updated and expanded 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 informative, user-friendly, comprehensive, and authoritative celestial field guide available. The product of a thirty-year collaboration between one of the world's leading astronomy writers and the world's foremost celestial mapmaker, Stars and Planets features superb color sky charts, diagrams, or photographs on almost every page; clear and engaging writing; a spacious and attracti
Item Description: Includes index.
"First published in 1984 as Collins Pocket Guide Stars and Planets."--Title page verso.
Carrier Form: 400 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 20 cm.
ISBN: 9780691177885 (softcover) :
0691177880 (softcover)
Index Number: QB63
CLC: P1
Call Number: P1/R547/5th upd. ed.
Contents: Section 1. Introduction -- The star charts -- Northern and southern hemisphere skies -- Monthly skies throughout the year -- The 88 constellations: Andromeda to Vulpecula -- section 2. 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.

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