Star Watch: The Amateur Astronomer's Guide to Finding, Observing, and Learning About Over 125 Celestial Objects.
PHILIP S. HARRINGTON
Early chapters in this guide familiarize novice astronomers Famous astronomers and astrophysicists include:
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- Marc Aaronson (USA, 1950 – 1987)
- George Ogden Abell (USA, 1927 – 1983)
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terminology and examine Earth's closest neighbor, the moon. Then,
Harrington begins a tour of objects in Earth's four seasonal skies,
including the sun, the planets, and deep-space objects such as vast star
clusters star cluster, a group of stars near each other in space and resembling each other in certain characteristics that suggest a common origin for the group. Stars in the same cluster move at the same rate and in the same direction. , nebulae, and distant galaxies This is a list of notable galaxies. - Abell 1835 IR1916
- AM 0644-741
- Andromeda Galaxy (M31/NGC 224)
- Andromeda I
- Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038/NGC 4039)
- Aquarius Dwarf
- Black Eye Galaxy (M64/NGC 4826)
- Bode's Galaxy (M81/NGC 3031)
. The book describes how to
locate and observe each of 125 objects in the sky and includes photos
and illustrations of most of them. For each object, Harrington provides
a full description, size, distance from Earth, structure, and the latest
scientific findings. All the profiled objects can be viewed with a
6-inch telescope telescope, traditionally, a system of lenses, mirrors, or both, used to gather light from a distant object and form an image of it. Traditional optical telescopes, which are the subject of this article, also are used to magnify objects on earth and in astronomy; . Wiley, 2003, 301 p., b&w photos/illus., paperback,
$16.95.
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