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The star atlas companion : what you need to know about the constellations / Philip M. Bagnall.
Springer Nature - Springer Physics and Astronomy eBooks 2012 English International Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bagnall, Philip M.
- Series:
- Springer-Praxis books in popular astronomy.
- Springer-Praxis books in popular astronomy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constellations.
- Stars--Atlases.
- Stars.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (496 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2012.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Star Atlas Companion is the ideal companion to any star atlas, as it is the first book to provide a true perspective on the characteristics and distances of over 1,100 stars and their movement through space. With the aid of scale diagrams, the reader can grasp difficult-to-understand concepts such as how far apart stars really are, their relative sizes, how fast they spin and their shapes, and how the constellation patterns change over time. This book: - describes many stars visible to the naked eye in both the northern and southern hemispheres; - explains binary and multiple star systems in detail; - gives the properties of many open clusters; - enables a true appreciation of the scale of our galactic neighborhood.
- Contents:
- About this book
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Making sense of the data
- The Constellations
- Andromeda to Chamaeleon
- Circinus to Indus
- Lacerta to Pisces
- Piscis Australis to Vulpecula
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613711762
- 9781280852404
- 1280852402
- 9781461408307
- 146140830X
- OCLC:
- 798209226
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