Beschreibung:
Celestial Delights is the essential 'TV Guide' for the sky. Through extensive graphics integrated with an eight-year-long calendar of sky events, it provides a look at "don't miss" sky events, mostly for naked-eye and binocular observing. It is organized by ease of observation - lunar phases and the brighter planets come first, with solar eclipses, the aurora, and comets coming later.
Preface.- Chapter 1: The Meaning of the Sky.- Chapter 2: Moon Dance.- Chapter 3: Morning Stars, Evening Stars - Venus and Mercury.- Chapter 4: Eclipses of the Sun and Moon.- Chapter 5: Mars - the Red Wanderer.- Chapter 6: Distant Giants - Jupiter and Saturn.- Chapter 7: Introduction to the Starry Sky.- Chapter 8: Meteors and Meteor Showers.- Chapter 9: Unpredictable Events.- Appendix A: Timetable of Celestial Events through 2020.- Appendix B: Phases of the Moon, 2011 - 2020.- Appendix C: Greatest Elongations of Mercury and Venus, 2011 - 2020.- Appendix D: Oppositions of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, 2011 - 2020.- Glossary.- Index.