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Item Information   Holdings                 Summary       More by this author     Barker, Sarah (Television producer), author.     Subjects     Astronomy -- Popular works.     Astronomy -- Observers' manuals.     Amateur astronomy.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Barker, Sarah (Television producer), author.       by title:      50 things to see in ...         MARC Display

50 things to see in the sky / Sarah Barker ; illustrated by Maria Nilsson. by Barker, Sarah (Television producer), author. New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2019] Subjects Astronomy -- Popular works.   Astronomy -- Observers' manuals.   Amateur astronomy. ISBN:  9781616898007 1616898003 Description:  143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm Contents:  Introduction -- Ideal observing -- Telescopes and binoculars -- Navigating the skies -- Extra tricks and tools -- Naked eye. The Milky Way -- Star-crossed lovers -- The North (for now) Star and how to find it -- The next north star -- Apollo 11 landing site -- Astronauts! (the International Space Station) -- Shooting stars -- Halley's and other comets -- A very famous belt -- A red supergiant (Betelgeuse) -- The dog star -- A punished queen -- The Pleiades -- Lunar halos -- The Morning Star -- A green flash -- A solar eclipse -- Supermoon! -- Noctilucent clouds -- The Southern Cross -- Aurora -- Blue skies -- Sun dogs -- Magellanic clouds. Further afield. Andromeda galaxy -- Sunspots -- Orion nebula -- Lunar craters -- Galilean moons -- Saturn's "ears" -- A storm as big as the Earth -- Martian ice caps -- Swan nebula -- A bubble in space -- Perseus double star cluster -- "Little green men" -- The great cluster in Hercules -- A colourful double -- Far, far away. Olympus Mons -- "Failed stars" -- Enceladus' ice volcano -- Hot Jupiters -- A baby solar system -- Spirals and ellipticals -- A light echo -- A white flag -- Galaxy groups and clusters -- Quasars -- Pillars of creation -- Hubble deep field -- Glossary. Summary:  "Astronomy for the amateur astronomer, with 50 illustrations to guide the user to astronomical patterns." -- (Source of summary not specified)   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   MAIN - WOODBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY Non-fiction 520 BAR Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList INMAN - WOODBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY Non-fiction 520 BAR Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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