Visual Astronomy: A Guide to Understanding the Night Sky

Author:   Panos Photinos
Publisher:   Morgan & Claypool Publishers
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9781643278872


Pages:   115
Publication Date:   30 April 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Panos Photinos
Publisher:   Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Imprint:   Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN:  

9781643278872


ISBN 10:   1643278878
Pages:   115
Publication Date:   30 April 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction The Celestial Sphere and Apparent Motion of the Sun Coordinate Systems Motion and Phases of the Moon The Planets Comets, Meteoroids, and Meteor Showers Constellations, Asterisms and Star Names Star Properties Telescopes Appendix A: Measuring Angles Appendix B: Measuring Distance in Astronomy Appendix C: Time Keeping Star Magnitude Systems and Distance Modulus

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Panos Photinos is a professor of physics at Southern Oregon University (SOU), where he teaches Introductory Astronomy, Observational Astronomy and Cosmology. Prior to joining SOU in 1989 he held faculty appointments at the Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent, Ohio; St. Francis Xavier, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada; and the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was visiting faculty at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; the University of Patras, Greece; Victoria University at Wellington, New Zealand; and the University of Melbourne, Australia. Panos completed his undergraduate degree in physics at the National University of Athens, Greece, and received his doctorate in physics from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. He started naked-eye observations as a child in the Red Sea, and later upgraded to a pair of Merchant brass binoculars in Alexandria, Egypt, and in his homeland, the island of Ikaria, Greece. Ever since he has visited and stargazed from all five continents, and shared his fascination with the night sky with students of all ages. He lives near Mt Ashland where he enjoys the beautiful skies of Southern Oregon from his backyard with his wife Shelley. This is Panos' first book on Astronomy.

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