Download or read book An Amateur s Guide to Observing and Imaging the Heavens written by Ian Morison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides extensive guidance for amateurs on observing and imaging equipment and demonstrates how to best use them.

Download or read book My Heavens written by Gordon Rogers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-28 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Heavens! charts the progress of the author’s own substantial observatory from conception, through design, planning and construction, to using an observatory of the kind that all amateur astronomers aspire to own. For those with more modest ambitions, the book offers many hints, tips and design features for smaller observatories. Comparisons are made with similar large projects in the USA. The story doesn’t end with the construction of the observatory, but goes on to describe the author’s choice of equipment, setting it up, and his own techniques for obtaining superb astronomical images like those displayed in his book.

Download or read book Treacherous Heavens written by Michell Burgan and published by eXtasy Books. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlantis Rey, single mom to Verruca Rey, wakes from her cryogenic sleep pod 105 years in the future to find out things have not gone to plan. Vega, the ship’s AI, explains that the vampire clean-up did not go as scheduled and that she and the 249 other passengers, are the last known living humans. Vega appoints Atlantis as the leader of the awakees, and they all look to her for the answers to how to survive their new lives. Knowing their best chance is to return to Earth, she has to find the right place to settle them before space or malicious awakees foil her plans. Yet amidst this chaos, Atlantis and Verruca manage to find lovers and a new family to surround themselves with.

Download or read book The Heavens written by Danny Faulkner and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heavens: A Different View gives us a glimpse of God’s majesty revealed in His creation. This photo journey through the created cosmos is packed with breathtaking astrophotography, Scripture, and short essays on the uniqueness of our galaxy and beyond. Author, astrophotographer and astrophysicist, Dr. Danny Faulkner, gives us eyes to see how astronomy speaks a powerful word about God as Creator. Every page of this beautiful, apologetic resource is filled with amazing facts about the heavens including: The two constellations mentioned in the Bible in the Books of Amos, Job, and Isaiah A black hole that is 70 million times more massive than the sun Objects we can see with the naked eye that are millions of light years away! The Heavens will fascinate those who love the science of the stars and provide a great defense for the wonder of our Creator. Families will enjoy the astrophotography and learn fascinating facts about star trails, galaxies, nebulae and many other objects in our solar system.

Download or read book Heavens on Earth written by Carmen Boullosa and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three narrators from different historical eras are each engaged in preserving history in Carmen Boullosa's Heavens on Earth. As her narrators sense and interact with each other over time and space, Boullosa challenges the primacy of recorded history and asserts literature and language's power to transcend the barriers of time and space in vivid, urgent prose.

Download or read book More Things in the Heavens written by Michael Werner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping tour of the infrared universe as seen through the eyes of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Astronomers have been studying the heavens for thousands of years, but until recently much of the cosmos has been invisible to the human eye. Launched in 2003, the Spitzer Space Telescope has brought the infrared universe into focus as never before. Michael Werner and Peter Eisenhardt are among the scientists who worked for decades to bring this historic mission to life. Here is their inside story of how Spitzer continues to carry out cutting-edge infrared astronomy to help answer fundamental questions that have intrigued humankind since time immemorial: Where did we come from? How did the universe evolve? Are we alone? In this panoramic book, Werner and Eisenhardt take readers on a breathtaking guided tour of the cosmos in the infrared, beginning in our solar system and venturing ever outward toward the distant origins of the expanding universe. They explain how astronomers use the infrared to observe celestial bodies that are too cold or too far away for their light to be seen by the eye, to conduct deep surveys of galaxies as they appeared at the dawn of time, and to peer through dense cosmic clouds that obscure major events in the life cycles of planets, stars, and galaxies. Featuring many of Spitzer’s spectacular images, More Things in the Heavens provides a thrilling look at how infrared astronomy is aiding the search for exoplanets and extraterrestrial life, and transforming our understanding of the history and evolution of our universe.

Download or read book Dark Heavens written by Roger Levy and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DARK HEAVENS takes us back to Roger Levy's stunning vision of a world counting out its final years as it literally falls apart. London is awash with volcanic ash, the population fatalistically playing out their lives in VR. But ReGenesis, the radical movement who started Earth's death with a series of controlled nuclear explosions in the Marina's trench, have not finished with the planet yet. RECKLESS SLEEP was a supremely assured and visionary SF debut. DARK HEAVENS builds on that promise with flair and verve.

Download or read book Understanding the Heavens written by Curtis Wilson and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the Heavens is a balanced look into spiritual warfare and some areas that often go unnoticed. This writing includes a careful examination into how our flesh, the world, and Satan combine forces to keep us from serving God to our fullest potential. Understanding the Heavens digs into how the enemy uses strongholds, offenses, and distractions to accomplish the goal of keeping believers from an ongoing vibrant relationship with Christ and advancing the kingdom of God. It also instructs the reader on how to fight with an intentional strategy for personal, corporate, and evangelistic warfare. Hopefully taking you on a journey from spiritual passivity into a proactive heart for war. Finally, we include an in-depth assessment of our weapons such as angels, praying in the Spirit, and fasting.

Download or read book From Hell on Earth to Sanctity in Heavens written by Odd Haugan and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someday in the future, when terrorism, pollution, and global warming (with horrendous weather changes) force earthbound man to the precipice of existence, mankind will have to find sanctity from destruction. The answer may lie in adapting to living in space, or on man-made islands in the middle of the ocean. After living shoulder to shoulder in cramped quarters for years on end, survivors soon discover that all forms of religion and politics must be banned; otherwise, mankind is doomed. Laid off from Boeing, Don Ringo keeps trying to establish a business, but fails miserably. Only when he teams up with a retired con man does he succeed, by buying a bankrupt space shuttle manufacturer. The space shuttle he calls Earth Hopper is a resounding success, reducing launch costs to a fraction of his competitors. He decides to open a "Spaceshop" in Earth orbit that provides supplies and repair services to NASA, the International Space Station, International Moon Base, and to others. Teaming up with Zili Pedog in Sitnalta, their fortunes multiply, and space is conquered. The future of mankind is at stake. The assault comes from the failures of religion, the politics of capitalism, socialism, communism, autocracy, dictatorship, and democracy in not addressing global recession, and man-made ecological disaster. The Armageddon of tomorrow may well come long before earthlings take the precautions needed to survive as an intelligent species.

Download or read book Minding the Heavens written by Leila Belkora and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the first edition: "A terrific blend of the science and the history." Martha Haynes, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University, New York, USA "The book is a treat... Highly recommended for public and academic libraries." Peter Hepburn, now Head Librarian, College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, California, USA Today, we recognize that we live on a planet circling the sun, that our sun is just one of billions of stars in the galaxy we call the Milky Way, and that our galaxy is but one of billions born out of the Big Bang. Yet, as recently as the early twentieth century, the general public and even astronomers had vague and confused notions about what lay beyond the visible stars. Can we see to the edge of the universe? Do we live in a system that would look, from a distance, like a spiral nebula? This fully updated second edition of Minding the Heavens: The Story of Our Discovery of the Milky Way explores how we learned that we live in a galaxy, in a universe composed of galaxies and unseen, mysterious dark matter. The story unfolds through short biographies of seven astronomers: Thomas Wright, William Herschel, and Wilhelm Struve of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the transitional figure of William Huggins; and Jacobus Kapteyn, Harlow Shapley, and Edwin Hubble of the modern, big-telescope era. Each contributed key insights to our present understanding of where we live in the cosmos, and each was directly inspired by the work of his predecessors to decipher "the construction of the heavens." Along the way, the narrative weaves in the contributions of those in supportive roles, including Caroline Herschel—William’s sister, and the first woman paid to do astronomy—and Martha Shapley, a mathematician in her own right who carried out calculations for her spouse. Through this historical perspective, readers will gain a new appreciation of our magnificent Milky Way galaxy and of the beauties of the night sky, from ghostly nebulae to sparkling star clusters. Features: Fully updated throughout to reflect the latest in our understanding of the Milky Way, from our central supermassive black hole to the prospect of future mergers with other galaxies in our Local Group. Explains the significance of current research, including from the Gaia mission mapping our galaxy in unprecedented detail. Unique and broadly appealing approach. A biographical framework and ample illustrations lead the reader by easy, enjoyable steps to a well-rounded understanding of the history of astronomy. Leila Belkora (Ph.D., Astrophysics) is a science writer. She earned her doctorate from the University of Colorado-Boulder, specializing in solar radio astronomy. She has previously taught university physics, astronomy, and communication for engineers. She lives in Southern California and enjoys local astronomy outreach activities.

Download or read book When the Heavens Frowned written by Joseph Leander Cline and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1946 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of the meteorologist; includes his experience of the Galveston flood of 1900.

Download or read book Splendour of the Heavens written by Theodore Evelyn Reece Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Fragrant Heavens written by Valerie Ann Worwood and published by New World Library. This book was released on 1999 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted aromatherapist provides rich insight into the spiritual powers of fragrance. Including a guide to analyzing the differences between physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual crises, this book presents a system of using essential oils homeopathically. Color illustrations.

Download or read book The Logic of Filtering written by Melle Jan Kromhout and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the very beginnings of sound recording, engineers have strived to reproduce the original sound as purely as possible and overcome the noise that technology leaves in recordings. However, this desire denies the fact that technologically mediated sound is always shaped and filtered by themany channels it travels through as it is recorded and reproduced. The noise that each medium inscribes on recorded sound is not just inescapable - it is fundamental to the sonic contours that characterize recorded music. But how exactly do media technologies shape sound and music? And how have theychanged what we listen for in music over time?In The Logic of Filtering, author Melle Jan Kromhout develops an extensive media archaeological analysis of the 'noise of sound media' that covers all the disturbances, distortions, and interferences that media add to the sounds they reproduce. Combining theoretical, historical, and technicalperspectives on sound media, Kromhout sketches a broad history of the problem of noise in sound recording as he traces the ideal of sonic purity back to nineteenth-century acoustics, examines analog and digital technologies, and analyzes the relationship between noise and temporality. In thoroughlyrevising our understanding of how sound media impact the sonorous qualities of music, this book offers a fresh perspective on the interactions between music, media, and listeners.

Download or read book Vedic Mythology written by A. A. MacDonell and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vedic Mythology written by Arthur Anthony Macdonell and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VEDIC MYTHOLOGY presents the earliest stage in the evolution of beliefs which constitute the source of religious concepts of the majority of Indian people.Documented with Sanskrit and General Index, this work constitutes a valuable contribution in the field of Vedic Mythology.

Download or read book Vedic Mythology written by Arthur Anthony Macdonell and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: