| Physical description |
1 online resource (vii, 486 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Springer- Praxis books in popular astronomy |
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Springer-Praxis books in popular astronomy.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Making sense of the data -- The Constellations. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The Star Atlas Companion is the ideal companion to any star atlas, as it is the first book to provide a true perspective on the characteristics and distances of over 1,100 stars and their movement through space. With the aid of scale diagrams, the reader can grasp difficult-to-understand concepts such as how far apart stars really are, their relative sizes, how fast they spin and their shapes, and how the constellation patterns change over time. This book: - describes many stars visible to the naked eye in both the northern and southern hemispheres; - explains binary and multiple star systems in detail; - gives the properties of many open clusters; - enables a true appreciation of the scale of our galactic neighborhood. |
| Subject |
Constellations -- Atlases.
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Stars -- Atlases.
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Physics. |
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Astronomy. |
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Astronomy, Observations and Techniques. |
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Popular Science in Astronomy. |
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astronomie |
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fysica |
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Astronomie |
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Scientific atlases. |
| ISBN |
9781461408307 (electronic bk.) |
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146140830X (electronic bk.) |
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9781461408291 (hardback) |
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1461408296 (hardback) |
| Standard Number |
10.1007/978-1-4614-0830-7 |
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