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The Ever-Changing Sky
A Guide to the Celestial Sphere

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Author: James B. Kaler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Date Published: June 2002
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521499187

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The Ever-Changing Sky is a comprehensive and uniquely non-mathematical guide to spherical astronomy. In a clear and lucid text, it guides through terrestrial and celestial co-ordinate systems, time measurement and celestial navigation, on to the stars and constellations (with useful star maps provided), the motions and appearance of the Moon and planets, tides and eclipses, and the smaller bodies of the Solar System (asteroids, meteors, meteorites and comets). There is also a brief overview of atmospheric phenomena. This text is invaluable to students of naked-eye astronomy, amateur and professional astronomers, and more general readers wanting to know how the night sky changes.
- Comprehensive and uniquely non-mathematical guide
- Detailed discussions of the stars and constellations, with handy star charts
- Appendix with a useful, compact introduction to spherical trigonometry; and graphs that allow the reader to calculate the times of sunrise and sunset anywhere on the Earth
- Well known and successful author
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"[A]n excellent discussion of the variations in solar time. This is essential material for understanding sundials." Joe Heafner, Sky & Telescope
"It develops into a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the sky that could be useful to astronomers, whether they are professionals, amateurs, or students, and to general readers who simply wish to learn about the night sky...a thoroughly enjoyable read." Astronomy
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Product details
- Date Published: June 2002
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521499187
- length: 516 pages
- dimensions: 247 x 176 x 28 mm
- weight: 1.149kg
- contains: 310 b/w illus. 57 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. The Earth and the celestial sphere
2. The moving Earth and the travelling observer
3. The orbital motion of the Earth
4. Stars and constellations
5. Precession, nutation, and aberration
6. Time
7. Sunrise and sunset
8. Positions in the sky and on Earth
9. The Moon
10. Tides, eclipses, and calendars
11. The planets
12. The small bodies of the solar system
13. Light and atmosphere
Appendices: I. Graphs and tables
II. Star maps
III. Trigonometric relationships
IV. Bibliography
Index.
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James B. Kaler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
James B. Kaler is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Illinois where his research centres on dying stars. Professor Kaler has held Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, and has been awarded medals for his work from the University of Liege in Belgium and the University of Mexico. As well as having published more than 100 research articles, he has written for a variety of popular and semi-popular magazines including Mercury, Astronomy, Stardate, Sky and Telescope, Scientific American, and l'Astronomia in Italy, and appears regularly on Illinois television and radio. His popular book, Stars, was published by Scientific American Library in 1992, and a new elementary astronomy textbook, Astronomy!, was published in 1994 by HarperCollins. Professor Kaler was also a consultant for Time-Life Books on their Voyage Through the Universe series. He is past president of the Board of the Champaign-Urbana Symphony.