An edition of The total skywatcher's manual
(2015)
The total skywatcher's manual
275+ skills and tricks for exploring stars, planets & beyond
by Linda Shore
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"For stargazers, comet-spotters and planet-seekers looking to enhance your deep sky knowledge and observations - this is your quintessential guide. The Total Skywatcher's Manual will help you choose the best telescope, identify constellations and objects in the night sky, search for extraterrestrial phenomena, plan star parties, capture beautiful space imagery and much more."--provided by publisher.
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2015
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English
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2015
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Table of Contents
Naked-eye astronomy tips. Meet the universe
Dissect a star
Learn stellar classification
Discover star groups
Spot the closest stars
Top five: Recognize ideal skywatching conditions
Go urban or rural
Pack a beginner skywatching kit
Optimize your vision
Improvise a red flashlight
Notice the brightness and color of stars
Navigate the northern celestial sphere
See the sights in the southern hemisphere
Witness zodiacal light at dawn
Spot morning and evening planets
Rediscover sunrise
Meet the sun
Understand solstices and equinoxes
Get the reasons for the seasons
Explore ancient astronomical markers
Track the sun with an analemma
Create your own solargraphs
Make your own planisphere
Look south with your planisphere
Measure the heavens
Top five: Zone the sky
Time the sunset with your fingers
Measure degrees of separation in the sky
Start at the Big Dipper
Pinpoint Arcturus
Locate Regulus
Suss out Spica
Test vision with the Big Dipper
Track time with the Little Dipper
Assemble a star clock
Find your way by the wind, stars, and waves
Use the Big Dipper to locate Polaris
Orient yourself with a gnomon
Find south in the southern hemisphere
Find the southern cross
Bag the coalsack
Locate Centaurus
Sail over to Vela
Check out Capricornus
Hunt down Hydrus
Look for Libra
Gaze upon Carina
Top five: Track things that move above
Locate the celestial equator
Find 0hr right ascension
Use Orion to measure spherical coordinates
Trace Draco the Dragon
Hunt down Ursa Major
Follow Ursa Minor
Get a glimpse of the giraffe
Begin at Orion
Get yourself to Gemini
Track down Taurus the bull
Find Canis Major and Canis Minor
Gaze at the majestic Milky Way
Glimpse spilled grain in the Cherokee Milky Way story
See more Milky Way myths
Spot a llama in the Incan Milky Way
Learn how the aboriginals see the Milky Way
Luck out with noctilucent clouds
Feast your eyes on afterglow
Glimpse the green flash
Meet the moon
Decode the phases of the moon
Understand the moon illusion
Watch the tides come and go
Spot some strange moons
Meet the man on the moon, all over the world
See the crescent moon around the globe
Watch the moon turn red in a lunar eclipse
Read a lunar eclipse map
Put together a lunar eclipse model
Meet Mercury
Begin with Pegasus the flying horse
Pinpoint 51 Pegasi
Find Andromeda the princess
Scout Perseus the hero
Acquaint yourself with faint Aries
Chase the Charioteer
Behold Corona Borealis
Hail King Cepheus
Explore the zodiacs of different cultures
Tell a meteor from a meteroid
Pick the best time to meteor-watch
Top five: Go on a meteorite hunt
Name that meteor shower
Save the date for meteor showers
Meet Venus
Demystify the auroras' colors
Pick a prime spot to aurora-gaze
Journey for the auroras
Time your aurora travel
Probe Earth's atmosphere
Catch a glimpse of glories
Check out sun and moon dogs
Demystify twinkling stars
Spot a solar or lunar halo
Meet Mars
Catch a conjunction
Witness planets in transit
Watch an occulation
Scope planets at maximum elongation
Observe planets in retrograde
Stay up all night for oppposition
Model the solar system with paper
Understand planets' relative sizes
Start at the summer triangle
Detect Delphinus
Fly with Aquia the eagle
Soar with Cygnus the swan
Find Lyra
Locate Hercules
Set your sights on Hydra
Track the serpent bearer
Catch the southern fish
See Sagittarius
Say hello to the first great skywatchers
Meet Jupiter --
Telescopes & other tools. Pick a pair of binoculars
Go with Porro or roof-prism binoculars
Learn all about eye relief
Adjust binoculars for vision
Clean your binoculars
Top five: Treat binoculars with respect
Peep Cassiopeia's Pacman Nebula
Nab the Double Cluster with binoclars
Align your sights with Algol
See star clusters with binoculars
Feast your eyes on distant galaxies with binoculars
Use binoculars to track Jupiter's moons
Tour the Milky Way with binoculars
Catch Canes Venatici
View Vulpecula
Lool for Leo Minor
Pinpoint Pisces
Dissect a basic telescope
Discover the classic refractor scope
Consider a reflector telescope
Learn about other telescope types
Top five: Select a telescope
Go computerized or stick with manual
Buy a starter scope for a kid
Set up your telescope
View the skies with a computerized scope
Collimate your telescope to fine-tune your view
Aim your scope with a piggyback finder
Focus and point your telescope
View the moon with a scope
Aim for Antlia
Draw the southern triangle
Catch the Bird of Paradise
Notice Norma
Scan skies with an altazimuth mount
Set up a dobsonian
Track stars with an equatorial mount
Pick a proper eyepiece
Understand eyepiece magnification
Find the right field of view
Boost resolution with the right eyepiece
Pick the right finder scope
Find a red line sight
Light the way with lasers
Mount a webcam to your telescope
Top five: Pick a solid tripod
Set up your gear for safety
Take a (comfortable) seat for skygazing
Cool your telescope tube
Light up your tripod
Piggyback your camera
Top five: Treat your scope to a trip
Camp under the stars
Behave at star parties
Transport gear safely
Cover up, rain or shine
Shield your scope from dew
Cap your optics
Peep the sun safely through solar filters
Enjoy lunar and planetary filters
Probe deep space with nebula filters
Meet Saturn
Fire up the furnace
Get up close with Grus
Nab the Fly
Find the Phoenix
Zoom in and out of the Orion nebula
Gaze upon Albireo
Find the Great Cluster in Hercules
View Virgo with a telescope
Scope out the Sombrero Galaxy
Check out M87
See M84 and M86 in Markarian's Chain
Spot the shadows of Jupiter's moons
Split double stars into three
Spy Saturn's rings
Peek into Orion's stellar nursery
Witness the death of Betelgeuse in Orion
Watch the young Pleiades in Taurus
Spot Scorpius
Find globular cluster M4
Peep the Butterfly and Ptolemy clusters
Make out M80
Meet Uranus
Gaze back in time with a telescope
Run the famous Messier marathon
Begin at the Leo Triplet
Bag the Coma Galaxy Cluster
Catch the Coma open cluster through a telescope
Take a peek at the M96 group
Watch the Water Bearer
Nab the crab
Look for Lepus
Discover the unicorn
Look at the sun safely
Project the sun with a telescope
See sunspots in transit
Bounce the sun onto a wall with a mirror
Watch a solar eclipse with a pinhole viewer
Sport eclipse shades
See Eclipses through leaves, a colander, or your fingers
Travel for solar eclipses
Identify solar-eclipse types
Top five: Catch a total solar eclipse's highlights
Witness the eclipse's effects on Earth
Meet Neptune
Study up on asteroids
Top five: Get acquainted with the neatest asteroids
Sail through the solar system with comets
Name that comet
Top five: Get to know some major comets
Root out Reticulum
Set your eyes on Sagitta
Glimpse the Sculptor
Scope out Scutum
Pack a basic astrophotography kit
Snap a mobile shot through a telescope
Freeze stars with the 500 rule
Shoot star trails
Create rings in the sky
Capture three-way trails at the equator
Craft a time lapse of a lunar eclipse
Stack images in software
Correct your scope's coma
Merge your telescope with a DSLR
Focus your camera through a scope
Speed up filter swaps
Lock on with autoguiders
Capture the beauty of the auroras
Meet the inventors of skywatching gadgetry
Stock up on sky-drawing supplies
Draw space objects like a pro
Top five: Sketch our universe's highlights
Search for Serpens
Recover the sextant
Snag the Southern Crown
Trace the triangle --
Advanced techniques. Travel to the world's greatest observatories ; Peek at deep space via the Hubble Space Telescope ; See star birth in infrared with SOFIA ; Planet-hunt with Kepler ; Observe in infrared via the James Webb Space Telescope ; Look at X-rays of space with Chandra ; Touch the Hand of God nebula ; Stop and smell the nebula roses ; Peep Pillars of Creation ; Sightsee from space through satellites ; Track junk in orbit ; Dissect space trash ; Celebrate our missions among the stars ; Journey to the solar system's outer edges ; Check out exoplanets ; See the skies from other planets ; Search for intelligent life with Drake's Equation ; Delve into space's mysteries ; Help count the stars as a citizen scientist ; Explore the Zooniverse ; Monitor variable stars ; Identify light pollution ; Study up on light pollution's effects ; Combat over illumination in your community ; Top five: Seek out the darkest skies ; Throw a star party ; Listen to a meteor shower over the radio ; Witness the Big Bang on your TV ; Construct a DIY scope mount ; Get a bigger light bucket ; Splurge on a high-end refractor ; Go all out with fancy eyepieces ; Send a camera into space ; Mod your Dobsonian with a custom tracker ; Boost your light with a superbright diagonal ; Make it permanent with piers ; Swap out collimation knobs ; Build an awesome observing chair.
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