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From Casual Stargazer to Amateur Astronomer How to Advance to the Next Level.
The beginning astronomical observer passes through a series of stages. The initial stage is hugely exciting and gives the beginner a real buzz as he discovers some of the faint fuzzy objects, markings on the planets, rings around Saturn and the craters on the Moon. But as the novice observer progres...
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| Series: | Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series.
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| 500 | |a 8.6 Lunar Occultations. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Contents; Part I Developing Your Skills; Chapter 1 Accessing and Developing Your Observing Skills; 1.1 Stargazer or Amateur Astronomer?; 1.2 Perceptions and Expectations; 1.3 Assessing Your Skills and Identifying Your Interests; 1.4 Taking Stock; 1.5 Some General Observing Rules; 1.6 Managing Your Expectations; 1.7 How the Human Eye Works; 1.8 Dark Adaptation; 1.9 Factors That Can Affect Your Night Vision; 1.10 Maintaining Your Dark Adaptation; 1.11 Eyesight Correction; 1.12 Set Yourself Realistic Targets; 1.13 Evaluate Your Favored List of Targets. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 1.14 Assess Your AbilitiesChapter 2 Planning and Recording Your Observing Sessions; 2.1 Preparing for an Observing Session; 2.2 Weather; 2.3 Gain Knowledge of Your Quarry; 2.4 Keep an Observing Notebook; 2.5 Date and Time of Observation; 2.6 T he Seeing Scale; 2.7 Note Down How and What You Observed; 2.8 Astronomical Drawing; 2.9 Getting Started with Drawing; 2.10 Equipment Needed for Drawing; 2.11 How to Draw; 2.12 Finalizing Your Drawings for Presentation; Chapter 3 Equipment; 3.1 Telescopes and Accessories; 3.2 A Long Hard Look at Your Equipment; 3.3 General Notes About Telescopes. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 3.4 Binoculars3.5 Choosing Binoculars; 3.6 Telescopes; Chapter 4 Accessories; 4.1 Finder Scopes; 4.2 Eyepieces; 4.3 Star Diagonal or Right-Angle Prism; 4.4 Barlow Lenses; 4.5 Filters; 4.6 An Occulting Bar; 4.7 Dew Prevention; 4.8 Collimating Your Telescope; 4.9 Cleaning/Resurfacing Lenses and Mirrors; 4.10 Aperture/Equipment Fever; 4.11 Your Own Observatory; Part II Practical Observing: Your Quarry Awaits; Chapter 5 Constellations, Asterisms and Stars; 5.1 Star-Hopping; 5.2 Learn to Star-Hop; 5.3 Positions of Objects on the Sky; 5.4 Asterisms; 5.5 The Brightness of Stars. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 5.6 The Bayer Designation5.7 Limiting Naked Eye Magnitude; 5.8 Estimating Star Magnitudes; 5.9 The Colors of Stars; 5.10 The Hertzprung-Russell Diagram; 5.11 Investigating the Colors of Stars; 5.12 Simple Spectroscopy; 5.13 Star Catalogs; Chapter 6 Variable and Double Stars; 6.1 Variable Stars; 6.2 Naming of Variable Stars; 6.3 Types of Variable Stars; 6.4 Supernovae; 6.5 Naming of Supernova; 6.6 Variable Star Observing Programs; 6.7 Double and Multiple Stars; 6.8 The Main Types of Double Stars; 6.9 Measuring Double Stars; 6.10 Instruments for Splitting Double Stars; 6.11 The Airy Disk. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 6.12 Dawes Limit6.13 A Couple of Challenging Double Stars; 6.14 Double and Variable Star Resources; Chapter 7 The Solar System: The Sun; 7.1 Observing the Sun; 7.2 Observing the Sun Indirectly; 7.3 Observing the Sun Directly; 7.4 Sunspots; 7.5 Cunting Sunspots; 7.6 Counting Sunspot Groups; 7.7 Classification of Sunspot Groups; 7.8 Hydrogen Alpha and Calcium Solar Observing; 7.9 Solar Eclipses; 7.10 Solar Resources; Chapter 8 The Solar System: The Moon; 8.1 Observing the Moon; 8.2 Common Lunar Features; 8.3 Transient Lunar Phenomena and Impact Flashes; 8.4 Lunar Eclipses; 8.5 The Danjon Scale. | |
| 520 | |a The beginning astronomical observer passes through a series of stages. The initial stage is hugely exciting and gives the beginner a real buzz as he discovers some of the faint fuzzy objects, markings on the planets, rings around Saturn and the craters on the Moon. But as the novice observer progresses, he or she wants to know what more there is than looking at faint fuzzy blobs or indistinct planet markings. Many jump to the conclusion 'wrongly' that they need to spend lots of money on expensive equipment to progress. 'From Casual Stargazer to Amateur Astronomer' has been written specifically. | ||
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