Download or read book Secrets of Stargazing written by Becky Ramotowski and published by Sky & Telescope. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's the perfect how-to book for recreational stargazers. It's loaded with practical advice to help new observers spend more time exploring the night sky and less time fumbling with equipment or wondering how, when, and what to observe. In Secrefs of Stargazing you'll discover how to: Quickly get started stargazing if you're the lucky recipient of a new telescope, Plan your observing sessions and record your observations, Stargaze in the city - despite the lights, Quickly and easily prepare your telescope for a night under the stars, Use star charts and discover star-hopping, See faint objects without actually looking at them, Observe in comfort, Decipher weather reports and understand sky transparency and seeing conditions, Find others in your area who share your love of the night sky. Whether or not you own a telescope, Secrets of Stargazing is loaded with tips and tricks that are guaranteed to make you a better observer. It's a volume that no novice stargazer should be without. Book jacket.

Download or read book The Secret World of Stargazing written by Adrian West and published by Yellow Kite. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A book that will make the night sky your lifelong passion. An invitation to immerse yourself in the nature around you and the universe beyond.' - Professor Brian Cox The Secret World of Stargazing is the ultimate astronomy book to set you on your epic journey around the cosmos - it's a simple guide to the skies and makes stargazing fun, easy and enjoyable for all - absolutely no equipment is required! Adrian West, AKA the internet sensation VirtualAstro, will take you through the seasons, showing you exactly what you can spot in the sky throughout the year, whether you're in your back garden or sitting on an exotic beach somewhere! While you're learning how to spot constellations, meteors and comets, you will be switching off your busy mind, sitting still in nature and paying attention to the small details that make up the big picture of life. You'll finish reading this beautiful book and come away with a sense of grounding, connection, knowledge and a whole new appreciation of the sky above and the world outside your own - it will soothe your soul. 'An excellent, readable, bright guide to the night sky.' - Dara O'Briain 'A superb introduction to astronomy.' - Chris Packham

Download or read book Stargazing Secrets written by Anton Vamplew and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to find out what you can see in the night sky with your telescope? Stargazing Secrets guides you through everything that can be seen in the night sky beyond the naked eye. It is packed with information and illustrated with original star charts. Stargazing Secrets also covers some of the more complex issues and terminology of astronomy while guiding you through the more distant aspects of our universe in a friendly way. With advice on choosing the right equipment, this is the ideal guide for avid astronomers or anyone wanting to explore the starry nights. Develop your knowledge of the night sky: Learn about the Earth’s seasons, its orbit and tilt, and how these affect sunrise, sunset, and tides on our planet Find out about the causes of the phenomena that you can see, from aurorae to coronae and zodiacal light Identify all of the planets, learn about their features, and understand how their position, size, and brightness relate to their orbits Unravel the mysteries surrounding all the stars and their life stages, from the black holes to the red dwarfs and blue giants

Download or read book The Secret in the Stars written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nancy goes stargazing, she catches a comet of an adventure by the tail! Nancy and George are thrilled when Bob “Dr. Stars” Steller, a cool astronomer with a popular radio program, comes to River Heights for the Perseid meteor shower. And Bess goes into orbit when she learns that a Hollywood heartthrob and his girlfriend are also secretly in town. But when Nancy finds Dr. Steller’s van deserted and runs into a hostile rival of the astronomer, she senses a dangerous black hole in the event. Then Dr. Steller finally appears—or is he an optical illusion? As Nancy uncovers more evidence, her suspicions lead her into a sinister scheme moving faster than the speed of light!

Download or read book Deep Sky Companions The Secret Deep written by Stephen James O'Meara and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fresh list, Stephen James O'Meara presents 109 new objects for stargazers to observe. The Secret Deep list contains many exceptional objects, including a planetary nebula whose last thermal pulse produced a circumstellar shell similar to the one expected in the final days of our Sun's life; a piece of the only supernova remnant known visible to the unaided eye; the flattest galaxy known; the largest edge-on galaxy in the heavens; the brightest quasar; and the companion star to one of the first black hole candidates ever discovered. Each object is accompanied by beautiful photographs and sketches, original finder charts, visual histories and up-to-date astrophysical information to enrich the observing experience. Featuring galaxies, clusters and nebulae not covered in other Deep-Sky Companions books, this is a wonderful addition to the series and an essential guide for any deep-sky observer.

Download or read book Secrets of the Hoary Deep written by Riccardo Giacconi and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2008-06-20 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Noble Prize–winning Italian astrophysicist shares his scientific autobiography and the history of the development of contemporary astronomy. The discovery of x-rays continues to have a profound effect on the field of astronomy. It has opened the cosmos to exploration in ways previously unimaginable, and fundamentally altered the methods for pursuing information about outer space. Nobel Prize–winner Riccardo Giacconi’s highly personal account of the birth and evolution of x-ray astronomy reveals the science, people, and institutional settings behind this important and influential discipline. Part history, part memoir, and part cutting-edge science, Secrets of the Hoary Deep is the tale of x-ray astronomy from its infancy through what can only be called its early adulthood. It also details how the tools, techniques, and practices designed to support and develop x-ray astronomy were transferred to optical, infrared, and radio astronomy, drastically altering the face of modern space exploration. Giacconi relates the basic techniques developed at American Science and Engineering and explains how, where, and by whom the science was advanced. From the first Earth-orbiting x-ray satellite, Uhuru, to the opening of the Space Telescope Science Institute and the lift-off of the Hubble Space Telescope to the construction of the Very Large Telescope, Giaconni recounts the ways in which the management methods and scientific methodology behind successful astronomy projects came to set the standards of operations for all subsequent space- and Earth-based observatories. Along the way he spares no criticism and holds back no praise, detailing individual as well as institutional failures and successes, reflecting upon how far astronomy has come and how far it has yet to go.

Download or read book Star Struck written by Jenny McLachlan and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jenny McLachlan, the author of Sunkissed, comes Star Struck, the next Ladybirds young adult novel.

Download or read book Secret Sky The Young Universe written by T. Alan Horne and published by Tristellation Media, LLC. This book was released on 2024-08-21 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stars speak in a language of secrets, yet their stories cannot remain hidden forever. Billions of years ago, on one of the first-ever Earths, a boy named Skylar will walk away from his home for the last time. Beset by dreams where he flies through the early universe as a sentient starship, he will never be safe if his secret gets out. His only chance to stay alive is to fall in with the same knights who destroyed his peasant village and live under the shadow of the king who sent them to exterminate Skylar’s people. But powerful dreams have a way of shaping reality, and with each midnight flight across the cosmos, Skylar finds his world—and himself—changing. Magic is another thing which should only exist in dreams, yet Skylar has it—one more secret that needs keeping. Against a waking life full of monsters, warriors, swords, sorcery, treasure, and ancient mysteries, Skylar has only one key for putting all the pieces together: the Secret Sky that haunts his sleeping mind.

Download or read book Secrets of the Night Sky written by Bob Berman and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1995 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From blue moons to Betelgeuse, it's all in this witty, fact-packed, profusely illustrated guide to the heavens by the author of Discover magazine's popular "Night Watchman" column.

Download or read book Archangel Raziel and the Seven Secrets written by Joanne Wiess and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archangel Raziel and the Seven Secrets Archangel Raziel spins the wheel of truth! Phenomenons exist and Raziel holds the insights intimately. Now, it is time to reveal seven secrets to enlighten and invite people to a deeper level of communion with the essence of the universe. Together, struggle to the edge to view the castles in the air, and seek reciprocity to become an exemplar on the trail while stargazing at opposites. Journey with Raziel and the animal spirits into the heart of revelation. Welcome to the Seven Secrets. You will never be the same.

Download or read book Love Bomb written by Jenny McLachlan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury in 2015.

Download or read book Stargazing written by Jen Wang and published by First Second. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stargazing is a heartwarming middle-grade graphic novel in the spirit of Real Friends and El Deafo, from New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Jen Wang. Moon is everything Christine isn't. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known. But after Moon moves in next door, these unlikely friends are soon best friends, sharing their favorite music videos and painting their toenails when Christine's strict parents aren't around. Moon even tells Christine her deepest secret: that she has visions, sometimes, of celestial beings who speak to her from the stars. Who reassure her that earth isn't where she really belongs. Moon's visions have an all-too-earthly root, however, and soon Christine's best friend is in the hospital, fighting for her life. Can Christine be the friend Moon needs, now, when the sky is falling? Jen Wang draws on her childhood to paint a deeply personal yet wholly relatable friendship story that’s at turns joyful, heart-wrenching, and full of hope.

Download or read book A Stargazing Program for Beginners written by Jamie Carter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sets out a simple month-by-month program to reveal all of the night sky's biggest and most beautiful secrets in just one year – and with only a few hours of stargazing each month By investing just an hour a week and $50 in binoculars, it’s possible to learn a few simple techniques and quickly gain a real insight into the night sky's ever-changing patterns – and what they tell us about Earth, the seasons and ourselves. Searching more for a learned appreciation of nature and our exact place within the cosmos than academic scientific knowledge, science and travel writer Jamie Carter takes the reader on a 12 month tour of the night sky's incredible annual rhythms that say so much about Earth. During the journey he learns about the celestial mechanics at work in the skies above that are – to the beginner – almost beyond belief. As well as the vital constellations and clusters, and the weird and wonderful nebulas, he searches out “dark sky destinations” across the globe that help increase knowledge and give a new perspective on familiar night sky sights. On the journey he witnesses a solar eclipse and grapples with star-charts, binoculars, smartphone apps, telescopes, spots satellites and attempts basic astro-photography. By year's end, the reader will be able to glance at the night sky from anywhere on the planet and tell what direction he or she is facing, what time it is, where all the planets are and even where the Galactic Center Point is.

Download or read book The Language of Stars written by OJ LEIGH and published by OJ LEIGH. This book was released on 2023-09-10 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where the night sky holds more than just its twinkling beauty, "The Language of Stars" weaves a captivating tale of destiny, love, and the power of belief. Here, the alignment of stars is not a mere spectacle but a profound force that determines the course of one's life. In this extraordinary realm, an astronomy enthusiast and a skeptical astrologer find themselves entangled in a web of fate, drawn together by a connection they cannot explain. Meet our protagonist, an ardent lover of celestial wonders, who spends nights gazing at the stars and decoding their secrets. This astronomy enthusiast cherishes the knowledge of the universe and revels in the scientific precision it offers, finding solace in the laws that govern the cosmos. On the other side of the celestial spectrum stands the skeptical astrologer, a person who scoffs at the idea of destiny being dictated by the positioning of the stars. This individual relies on reason, dismissing the notion that the universe can dictate human connections and affection. Despite their opposing beliefs, a chance encounter brings these two souls together, and as if guided by some cosmic force, they feel an unexplainable pull toward each other. As they embark on a journey to uncover the truth behind the stars and the ancient belief of soulmates, they are thrust into a world of enchantment and mystery. Their quest takes them through hidden observatories, ancient legends, and practitioners of celestial magic. Along the way, they find themselves questioning their beliefs and embracing the possibility that there may be more to the universe than they ever imagined. "The Language of Stars" is a tale of exploration, not only of the night sky but also of the depths of the human heart. As they stargaze together, sharing dreams and fears, their friendship blossoms into something extraordinary, defying the boundaries of their opposing ideologies. But their path is not without obstacles, for there are those who seek to protect the status quo, keeping the truth about the stars hidden from the world. As they push forward, they must confront their own doubts, face adversaries, and challenge the very foundations of the belief system that has shaped their society for generations. In this extraordinary journey of self-discovery, friendship, and love, our protagonists will unlock the secrets of an ancient prophecy and rewrite the very fabric of their destinies. As they dare to question the stars themselves, they discover a love that transcends the limits of the heavens, proving that sometimes, the true language of stars is written not in their positions but in the beating of two hearts drawn together by an inexplicable cosmic force. Join them on this remarkable odyssey and immerse yourself in a world where the skies hold more than just wonder, they hold the key to rewriting their own tale of love and destiny.

Download or read book The Secret Life of Stars written by Lisa Harvey-Smith and published by Thames & Hudson Australia. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astrophysics made fun!' Pam Melroy, former astronaut and space shuttle commander 'The most enjoyable stroll through the cosmos' Gerry Griffin, former flight director, Apollo Mission Control We all know the Sun, the powerhouse of our solar system, but what about Luyten's Flare, the Rosino-Zwicky Object or Chanal's variable star? For those whose curiosity takes them far beyond Earth's atmosphere, The Secret Life of Stars offers a personal and readily understood introduction to some of the Galaxy's most remarkable stars. Each chapter connects us to the various different and unusual stars and their amazing characteristics and attributes, from pulsars, blue stragglers and white dwarfs to cannibal stars and explosive supernovae. With chapter illustrations by Eirian Chapman, this book brings to life the remarkable personalities of these stars, reminding readers what a diverse and unpredictable universe we live in and how fortunate we are to live around a stable star, our Sun.

Download or read book Koko Be Good written by Jen Wang and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of two very different people: KoKo, a twenty-something free spirit living her life to the max, and Jon, a quiet average guy who has given up his own dreams to move to Peru with his girlfriend. When the two meet, they find themselves rethinking their own lives.

Download or read book Stargazing For Dummies written by Steve Owens and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reach for the stars Stargazing is the practice of observing the night sky and its contents - from constellations through to planets and galaxies. Stars and other night sky objects can be seen with the naked eye, or seen in greater numbers and in more detail with binoculars or a telescope. Stargazing For Dummies offers you the chance to explore the night sky, providing a detailed guide to the main constellations and also offering advice on viewing other night sky objects such as planets and nebulae. It's a great introduction to a fun new hobby, and even provides a fun way to get the kids outside while doing something educational! Gives you an introduction to looking at the sky with binoculars or a telescope Offers advice on photographing the night sky Without needing to get your head around mind-bending theories, you can take part in some practical physics If you're looking for easy-to-follow guidance on getting to know the night sky, Stargazing For Dummies has you covered.