This is a handbook for all astronomers designed to provide a wide range of information concerning the heavens and also create a paradigm for learning. The book covers the positioning of stars, an explanation of astronomical instruments, the solar system and stars, nebulae and galaxies.
Star charts; position and time; practical astronomy - observing,
astronomical instruments; astrophotography; solar system - the Sun, the moon,
the planets and their satellites, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto;, minor planets, comets, meteors, occulations and
eclipses, aurorae, noctillucent clouds and the zodiacal light, artificial
satellites; stars, nebulae and galaxies - constellations and nomenclature,
radiation, magnitude and luminosity, distances, motions and physical
parameters, spectral classification, stellar evolution, double and variable
stars, clusters.Appendices: units and notation; astronomical constants;
symbols and abbreviations.
