Viewing the Constellations with Binoculars 250+ Wonderful Sky Object
The night sky is filled with stellar wonders, sparkling jewels that hide within them fantastic faraway suns. The ancients saw pictures formed by the stars and thus were born the constellations, which are still used today to identify and locate stars. &nbs
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Viewing the Constellations with Binoculars
250+ Wonderful Sky Objects to See and Explore Bojan Kambicˇ
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Bojan Kambicˇ Sarhova 20 SI-1000 Ljubljana Slovenia [email protected]
ISSN 1431-9756 ISBN 978-0-387-85354-3 e-ISBN 978-0-387-85355-0 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-85355-0 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009930754 # Springer ScienceþBusiness Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer ScienceþBusiness Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Illustrations: All pictures are reproduced by permission of their copyright owners. For further details see Picture Credits in the back matter Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science±Business Media (www.springer.com)
If Galileo had owned my binoculars, what amazing discoveries he would have made!
Acknowledgement
All diagrams, illustrations and star charts are drawn by author, unless mentioned otherwise is written. Whilst every care has been taken to trace copyright owners the author would like to apologise to anyone whose copyright has been unwittingly infringed.
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Contents
Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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About the Author. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Author’s Note. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter One – About Binoculars (And Everything Connected to Them) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter Two – Celestial Mechanics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter Three – Those Wonderful Distant Suns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter Four – Nonstellar Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter Five – Using Models to Understand Our Place in Space and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
