The Observer's Year - 366 Nights in the Universe
von: Patrick Moore
Springer-Verlag, 2006
ISBN: 9781846281556
Sprache: Englisch
376 Seiten, Download: 9082 KB
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| Preface | 6 | ||
| Contents | 8 | ||
| Introduction | 10 | ||
| Phases of the Moon 2005–2010 | 13 | ||
| January | 17 | ||
| January 1 The January Sky | 22 | ||
| January 2 The Two Most Famous Constellations | 23 | ||
| January 3 The Poles of the Sky | 24 | ||
| January 4 The Quadrantid Meteors | 25 | ||
| January 5 The Horse and his Rider | 25 | ||
| January 6 The Faintest Star in the Plough | 26 | ||
| January 7 The Little Bear – and the Guardians of the Pole | 27 | ||
| January 8 The Legend of the Bears | 29 | ||
| January 9 Lunokhod 2 on the Moon | 30 | ||
| January 10 Colours of the Stars | 30 | ||
| January 11 Phases of the Inferior Planets | 31 | ||
| January 12 Orion, the Hunter | 33 | ||
| January 13 Orion as a Guide | 34 | ||
| January 14 The Legend of Orion | 36 | ||
| January 15 Betelgeux | 36 | ||
| January 16 Rigel | 38 | ||
| January 17 Comets | 39 | ||
| January 18 Hare in the Sky | 39 | ||
| January 19 The Dove, the Graving Tool and Declination | 41 | ||
| January 20 The Belt and the Sword | 42 | ||
| January 21 Features of the Moon | 43 | ||
| January 22 Right Ascension | 44 | ||
| January 23 Clusters in Cassiopeia | 45 | ||
| January 24 Variable Stars in Cassiopeia | 46 | ||
| January 25 Tycho’s Star | 47 | ||
| January 26 Northern and Southern Lights | 48 | ||
| January 27 King Cepheus | 49 | ||
| January 28 Variable Stars in Cepheus | 50 | ||
| January 29 The Celestial Lizard | 51 | ||
| January 30 Introduction to Eridanus | 52 | ||
| January 31 Lunar History | 53 | ||
| February | 55 | ||
| February 1 The February Sky | 60 | ||
| February 2 Oppositions of the Planets | 60 | ||
| February 3 Touchdown in the Ocean of Storms | 61 | ||
| February 4 Gemini | 62 | ||
| February 5 Fra Mauro | 63 | ||
| February 6 The Non-Identical Twins | 64 | ||
| February 7 William Huggins and his Spectroscopes | 64 | ||
| February 8 The Castor Family | 65 | ||
| February 9 Variable Stars in the Twins | 66 | ||
| February 10 Messier’s Catalogue – and M35 | 67 | ||
| February 11 The Eskimo Nebula | 68 | ||
| February 12 Messengers to Venus | 68 | ||
| February 13 Introducing the Milky Way | 69 | ||
| February 14 The Solar Cycle – and Solar Max | 70 | ||
| February 15 Lunar Insects? | 70 | ||
| February 16 Touchdown on Eros | 71 | ||
| February 17 Missions to the Sea of Crises | 72 | ||
| February 18 Twinkling Stars | 72 | ||
| February 19 De Revolutionibus | 73 | ||
| February 20 The Great Dog | 74 | ||
| February 21 The Celestial Pup | 76 | ||
| February 22 The Sun’s Surroundings | 77 | ||
| February 23 Messier 41 | 77 | ||
| February 24 Supernovæ | 78 | ||
| February 25 Fritz Zwicky and his Supernovæ | 79 | ||
| February 26 Procyon and the Little Dog | 79 | ||
| February 27 The Little Snake | 80 | ||
| February 28 An Equatorial Star | 81 | ||
| February 29 Leap Years | 81 | ||
| March | 83 | ||
| March 1 The March Sky | 88 | ||
| March 2 The Celestial Crab | 88 | ||
| March 3 Back to the Moon | 89 | ||
| March 4 The Seas of the Moon | 90 | ||
| March 5 The Beehive | 91 | ||
| March 6 Binoculars and the Sky | 92 | ||
| March 7 X Cancri | 93 | ||
| March 8 ‘The Solitary One’ | 93 | ||
| March 9 The Watersnake | 94 | ||
| March 10 The Giraffe and the Southern Pointers | 95 | ||
| March 11 The Planet-Hunter | 96 | ||
| March 12 Star Magnitudes | 97 | ||
| March 13 Solar System Anniversaries | 98 | ||
| March 14 The Greatest Globular Cluster | 98 | ||
| March 15 Choosing a Telescope | 99 | ||
| March 16 Procyon | 100 | ||
| March 17 The Owl Nebula | 101 | ||
| March 18 Space-Walking | 101 | ||
| March 19 XI Ursæ Majoris: the First Computed Binary | 102 | ||
| March 20 The Equinox | 103 | ||
| March 21 The Celestial Equator | 104 | ||
| March 22 The Origin of the Planets | 104 | ||
| March 23 The Hunting Dogs | 105 | ||
| March 24 The Whirlpool | 106 | ||
| March 25 Titan | 107 | ||
| March 26 Messier Objects in Canes Venatici | 108 | ||
| March 27 Monoceros | 108 | ||
| March 28 The Oldest Open Cluster | 110 | ||
| March 29 Miniature Worlds | 110 | ||
| March 30 Nu Hydræ | 111 | ||
| March 31 Van Maanen and the Galaxies | 112 | ||
| April | 113 | ||
| April 1 The April Sky | 118 | ||
| April 2 Leo, the Lion | 118 | ||
| April 3 The Royal Star | 119 | ||
| April 4 Algieba, the Double Star in the Sickle | 120 | ||
| April 5 Features of the Sickle | 121 | ||
| April 6 Denebola: a Fading Star? | 122 | ||
| April 7 R Leonis and the Purkinje Effect | 122 | ||
| April 8 Chort and Zosma: Radial Velocities of Stars | 123 | ||
| April 9 Galaxies in Leo | 124 | ||
| April 10 The Little Lion | 125 | ||
| April 11 Lynx | 126 | ||
| April 12 The Intergalactic Tramp | 127 | ||
| April 13 47 Ursae Majoris: a Planetary Centre? | 127 | ||
| April 14 The Mountains of the Moon | 128 | ||
| April 15 The Spin of the Moon | 129 | ||
| April 16 Méchain and the Nebulæ | 130 | ||
| April 17 Seas at the Moon’s Limb | 131 | ||
| April 18 Constellation Shapes – and the Southern Triangle | 131 | ||
| April 19 The Lunar Surveyors | 132 | ||
| April 20 The Lyrids – and Thatcher’s Comet | 133 | ||
| April 21 Apollo 16 and the Highlands of the Moon | 134 | ||
| April 22 Antlia | 134 | ||
| April 23 The Sextant | 135 | ||
| April 24 The Centaur and the Southern Cross | 136 | ||
| April 25 Features of the Centaur | 137 | ||
| April 26 The Southern Cross | 138 | ||
| April 27 The Jewel Box and the Coal Sack | 139 | ||
| April 28 Lupus | 139 | ||
| April 29 Ara | 140 | ||
| April 30 The Moon and Easter | 141 | ||
| May | 143 | ||
| May 1 The May Sky | 148 | ||
| May 2 Tracing the Zodiac | 148 | ||
| May 3 Areas of the Zodiacal Constellations | 149 | ||
| May 4 The Giant Planet | 150 | ||
| May 5 Meteorites over Britain | 151 | ||
| May 6 The Belts and Spots of Jupiter | 151 | ||
| May 7 The Satellites of Jupiter | 152 | ||
| May 8 Virgo | 153 | ||
| May 9 Spica | 154 | ||
| May 10 Arich | 154 | ||
| May 11 Star Names | 155 | ||
| May 12 A Missing Link? | 156 | ||
| May 13 The Bowl of Virgo | 157 | ||
| May 14 M87: a Giant Radio Galaxy | 158 | ||
| May 15 Minelauva and Stellar Evolution | 159 | ||
| May 16 Nu Virginis: Red Star in the Virgin | 159 | ||
| May 17 May 17 | 160 | ||
| May 18 The Legend of Berenice’s Hair | 160 | ||
| May 19 The Coma Cluster | 161 | ||
| May 20 Nebular Objects in Coma | 162 | ||
| May 21 The Sun – from Beta Comæ | 162 | ||
| May 22 Jupiter’s Satellite Family | 163 | ||
| May 23 Corvus | 164 | ||
| May 24 The Antennæ | 165 | ||
| May 25 Crater, the Cup | 165 | ||
| May 26 The Sun – and Richard Carrington | 166 | ||
| May 27 R Hydræ | 166 | ||
| May 28 Lockyer and Stellar Evolution | 167 | ||
| May 29 Der Mond | 167 | ||
| May 30 The Lunar Atmosphere | 168 | ||
| May 31 Occultations of Mars | 169 | ||
| June | 171 | ||
| June 1 The June Sky | 176 | ||
| June 2 Dark Adaptation | 176 | ||
| June 3 The Hale Re.ector | 177 | ||
| June 4 Peculiar Pluto | 177 | ||
| June 5 Pluto and Charon | 178 | ||
| June 6 Boötes, the Herdsman | 179 | ||
| June 7 Arcturus | 180 | ||
| June 8 Transits of Venus | 181 | ||
| June 9 The Ophiuchids | 182 | ||
| June 10 Red Variable: W Boötis | 183 | ||
| June 11 The Vanishing Star | 183 | ||
| June 12 Double Stars in Boötes | 184 | ||
| June 13 Quadrans: the Forgotten Constellation | 184 | ||
| June 14 The Northern Crown | 185 | ||
| June 15 R Coronæ: the Sooty Star | 186 | ||
| June 16 T Coronæ: the Blaze Star | 186 | ||
| June 17 The ‘Leviathan of Parsonstown’ | 187 | ||
| June 18 Scorpius | 188 | ||
| June 19 Antares: the Scorpion’s Heart | 189 | ||
| June 20 Neighbours of Antares | 190 | ||
| June 21 Globular Clusters in Scorpius | 190 | ||
| June 22 The Scorpion’s Head | 191 | ||
| June 23 The Scorpion’s Sting | 191 | ||
| June 24 Open Clusters in Scorpius | 192 | ||
| June 25 Scorpius X-1 | 192 | ||
| June 26 Libra | 193 | ||
| June 27 Beta Libræ: a Green Star? | 193 | ||
| June 28 The First Point of Libra | 194 | ||
| June 29 Secchi’s Spectral Classi.cation | 195 | ||
| June 30 Meteorite Craters | 195 | ||
| July | 197 | ||
| July 1 The July Sky | 202 | ||
| July 2 Hercules | 202 | ||
| July 3 Zeta Herculis | 204 | ||
| July 4 Globular Clusters in Hercules | 204 | ||
| July 5 The Changing Moon | 205 | ||
| July 6 Rasalgethi | 206 | ||
| July 7 Telescopic Objects in Hercules | 206 | ||
| July 8 Ophiuchus | 207 | ||
| July 9 Poniatowski’s Bull | 208 | ||
| July 10 Ophiuchus in the Zodiac | 209 | ||
| July 11 Barnard’s Star | 209 | ||
| July 12 Serpens: the Broken Constellation | 210 | ||
| July 13 The Serpens Globular | 211 | ||
| July 14 The Serpent’s Body | 211 | ||
| July 15 The Eagle Nebula | 212 | ||
| July 16 The Central Bay | 212 | ||
| July 17 Sagittarius | 213 | ||
| July 18 Southernmost Sagittarius | 214 | ||
| July 19 The Star-Clouds of Sagittarius | 215 | ||
| July 20 The Centre of the Galaxy | 215 | ||
| July 21 Nebulæ in Sagittarius | 216 | ||
| July 22 Messier 22 | 217 | ||
| July 23 The Missing Messier Objects | 217 | ||
| July 24 Corona Australis: the Southern Crown | 218 | ||
| July 25 The Summer Triangle | 218 | ||
| July 26 Lyra | 220 | ||
| July 27 Vega | 221 | ||
| July 28 The Changing Size of the Moon | 222 | ||
| July 29 Beta Lyræ | 222 | ||
| July 30 The Ring Nebula | 223 | ||
| July 31 Epsilon Lyræ, the Double-Double Star | 224 | ||
| August | 225 | ||
| August 1 The August Sky | 230 | ||
| August 2 Neptune: the Outermost Giant | 230 | ||
| August 3 The Perseids – and Comet Swift-Tuttle | 231 | ||
| August 4 Observing Neptune | 231 | ||
| August 5 Aquila | 232 | ||
| August 6 Antinoüs | 233 | ||
| August 7 Altair | 233 | ||
| August 8 Eta Aquilæ | 234 | ||
| August 9 Nova Aquilæ, 1918 | 235 | ||
| August 10 The Moon from Orbiter | 235 | ||
| August 11 The Perseid Shower | 236 | ||
| August 12 Meteor Photography | 236 | ||
| August 13 Eros, the Cosmic Lozenge | 237 | ||
| August 14 The Shield and the Wild Duck | 238 | ||
| August 15 R Scuti | 238 | ||
| August 16 Cygnus, the Swan | 239 | ||
| August 17 Deneb: a Celestial Searchlight | 240 | ||
| August 18 The North America Nebula | 240 | ||
| August 19 Albireo, the Coloured Double | 241 | ||
| August 20 P Cygni, the Unstable Star | 242 | ||
| August 21 The ‘Flying Star’ | 243 | ||
| August 22 Variable Stars in Cygnus | 243 | ||
| August 23 Clusters in Cygnus | 244 | ||
| August 24 Uranus | 245 | ||
| August 25 Giants from Close Range | 246 | ||
| August 26 Rings and Moons | 246 | ||
| August 27 The Migrating Star | 247 | ||
| August 28 Mars at its Nearest | 248 | ||
| August 29 Mars through the Telescope | 249 | ||
| August 30 Observing Mars | 250 | ||
| August 31 Close-Range Views of Mars | 250 | ||
| September | 253 | ||
| September 1 The September Sky | 258 | ||
| September 2 The First Four Asteroids | 258 | ||
| September 3 The Martian Scene | 259 | ||
| September 4 The Legend of the Dolphin | 260 | ||
| September 5 Doubles and Variables in Delphinus | 261 | ||
| September 6 The Delphinus Globulars | 262 | ||
| September 7 Equuleus | 262 | ||
| September 8 Sagitta, the Arrow | 263 | ||
| September 9 Vulpecula | 263 | ||
| September 10 The Sea of Tranquillity | 264 | ||
| September 11 Tracing the Zodiac: Continued | 265 | ||
| September 12 The Sea-Goat | 265 | ||
| September 13 The Flight of Luna 2 1959: Landing of Luna 2 on | 266 | ||
| September 14 Beta and Alpha Capricorni | 267 | ||
| September 15 Messier 30 | 268 | ||
| September 16 Pegasus | 268 | ||
| September 17 The Light-curve of Beta Pegasi | 269 | ||
| September 18 Epsilon Pegasi: a Suspected Variable | 270 | ||
| September 19 Double Star Separations | 270 | ||
| September 20 The Planet of 51 Pegasi? | 272 | ||
| September 21 Remote Objects in Pegasus | 272 | ||
| September 22 Equal Day and Night | 273 | ||
| September 23 Aquarius, the Water-Bearer | 274 | ||
| September 24 Zeta Aquarii | 275 | ||
| September 25 Harvest Moon | 275 | ||
| September 26 Blue Moons | 276 | ||
| September 27 Messier Objects in Aquarius | 277 | ||
| September 28 The Saturn Nebula and the Helix | 278 | ||
| September 29 Pisces | 278 | ||
| September 30 TX Piscium and Van Maanen’s Star | 279 | ||
| October | 281 | ||
| October 1 The October Sky | 286 | ||
| October 2 The Southern Fish | 286 | ||
| October 3 Sculptor | 288 | ||
| October 4 The Start of the Space Age | 288 | ||
| October 5 Cetus | 289 | ||
| October 6 The ‘Wonderful Star’ | 290 | ||
| October 7 Tau Ceti: a Near Neighbour | 291 | ||
| October 8 Giants and Dwarfs of the Sky | 292 | ||
| October 9 Flare Stars | 293 | ||
| October 10 The Draconid Meteors | 293 | ||
| October 11 Objects in Cetus | 294 | ||
| October 12 The Chemical Furnace | 295 | ||
| October 13 Crater Linné | 295 | ||
| October 14 William Lassell and hisTelescope | 296 | ||
| October 15 Draco, the Dragon | 297 | ||
| October 16 Nearby Stars in Draco | 298 | ||
| October 17 The Old Pole Star | 298 | ||
| October 18 The Moving Pole | 299 | ||
| October 19 Gamma Draconis and Aberration | 300 | ||
| October 20 Andromeda | 301 | ||
| October 21 The Orionids – and Halley’s Comet | 302 | ||
| October 22 The Great Spiral | 303 | ||
| October 23 Spörer and his Law | 303 | ||
| October 24 The Distance of M31 | 304 | ||
| October 25 The Other Side of the Moon | 305 | ||
| October 26 The Form of M31 | 305 | ||
| October 27 The Other Side of the Moon | 306 | ||
| October 28 Companions of the Andromeda Spiral | 307 | ||
| October 29 Aries, the Ram | 307 | ||
| October 30 Triangulum | 308 | ||
| October 31 The Pinwheel Galaxy | 309 | ||
| November | 311 | ||
| November 1 The November Sky | 316 | ||
| November 2 Eridanus, the River | 316 | ||
| November 3 The Taurids | 318 | ||
| November 4 The South Celestial Pole | 318 | ||
| November 5 The Clouds of Magellan | 320 | ||
| November 6 Venus in the Morning Sky | 320 | ||
| November 7 The Rotation of Venus | 321 | ||
| November 8 Venus: the Phantom Satellite | 322 | ||
| November 9 The Ptolemæus Chain | 322 | ||
| November 10 Conditions on Venus | 323 | ||
| November 11 Perseus and the Sea-Monster | 324 | ||
| November 12 The Demon Star | 325 | ||
| November 13 The Light-curve of Algol | 326 | ||
| November 14 The Sword-Handle in Perseus | 326 | ||
| November 15 Objects in Perseus | 327 | ||
| November 16 Tracing the Equator | 327 | ||
| November 17 Leonid Night | 328 | ||
| November 18 Canopus | 328 | ||
| November 19 The Andromedid Meteors | 330 | ||
| November 20 Hubble and the Galaxies | 330 | ||
| November 21 Auriga, the Charioteer | 331 | ||
| November 22 Capella | 332 | ||
| November 23 The Mysterious ‘Kid’ | 333 | ||
| November 24 Zeta Aurigæ | 333 | ||
| November 25 Clusters in Auriga | 334 | ||
| November 26 The Celestial Crane | 334 | ||
| November 27 Phœnix | 336 | ||
| November 28 Peacock and Indian | 337 | ||
| November 29 Tucana | 338 | ||
| November 30 The Brightest Lunar Crater | 339 | ||
| December | 341 | ||
| December 1 The December Sky | 346 | ||
| December 2 The Colours of the Stars | 346 | ||
| December 3 Stars of Many Kinds | 347 | ||
| December 4 Some Red or Orange Stars | 348 | ||
| December 5 Twinkling Planets? | 348 | ||
| December 6 Sizes of the Constellations | 349 | ||
| December 7 Space Pioneer | 349 | ||
| December 8 Occultation Series | 350 | ||
| December 9 Pluto: Planet or Not? | 350 | ||
| December 10 Taurus | 351 | ||
| December 11 The Hyades | 352 | ||
| December 12 The Seven Sisters | 352 | ||
| December 13 The Geminids | 353 | ||
| December 14 The Stars of the Pleiades | 354 | ||
| December 15 Lambda Tauri | 354 | ||
| December 16 The Crab Nebula | 355 | ||
| December 17 The Ringed Planet | 356 | ||
| December 18 The Rings of Saturn | 356 | ||
| December 19 Storms on Saturn | 357 | ||
| December 20 Space-craft to Saturn | 358 | ||
| December 21 The Satellites of Saturn | 358 | ||
| December 22 The Cassini Mission | 359 | ||
| December 23 The Ursids – and Tuttle’s Comet | 359 | ||
| December 24 The Barwell Meteorite | 360 | ||
| December 25 The Star of Bethlehem | 361 | ||
| December 26 The False Cross | 362 | ||
| December 27 Eta Carinæ | 363 | ||
| December 28 Beta Pictoris: a Planetary Centre? | 364 | ||
| December 29 Keeping Watch on the Sun | 364 | ||
| December 30 A Last Look Round | 365 | ||
| December 31 The End of the Century | 365 | ||
| The 88 Constellations | 367 | ||
| Glossary | 369 | ||
| The Greek Alphabet | 379 | ||
| Index | 381 |