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Lights in the sky: identifying and understanding astronomical and meteorological phenomena

Amateur astronomers spend a lot of their time observing the sky, but not everything up there is necessarily an astronomical phenomenon. Nor is everything immediately identifiable. How many people can tell the difference between a Sun Dog and a Glory - both meteorological phenomena? Or between the Zo...

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Autor principal: Maunder, Michael
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Springer 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-761-9
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description Amateur astronomers spend a lot of their time observing the sky, but not everything up there is necessarily an astronomical phenomenon. Nor is everything immediately identifiable. How many people can tell the difference between a Sun Dog and a Glory - both meteorological phenomena? Or between the Zodiacal Light and the Gegenschein, which are astronomical? Lights in the Sky is a truly comprehensive guide to observing, identifying, and imaging sky glows and other unusual atmospheric/astronomical phenomena, in both the night and daytime skies. If, as a practical observer, you want to be able to identify what it is when you are faced, for example, with the Specter of the Brocken - or with an unidentified flying object that is...well, unidentified...then Lights in the Sky will provide all the practical scientific information you need.
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spelling cern-27053442021-04-21T18:12:07Zdoi:10.1007/978-1-84628-761-9http://cds.cern.ch/record/2705344engMaunder, MichaelLights in the sky: identifying and understanding astronomical and meteorological phenomenaAstrophysics and AstronomyAmateur astronomers spend a lot of their time observing the sky, but not everything up there is necessarily an astronomical phenomenon. Nor is everything immediately identifiable. How many people can tell the difference between a Sun Dog and a Glory - both meteorological phenomena? Or between the Zodiacal Light and the Gegenschein, which are astronomical? Lights in the Sky is a truly comprehensive guide to observing, identifying, and imaging sky glows and other unusual atmospheric/astronomical phenomena, in both the night and daytime skies. If, as a practical observer, you want to be able to identify what it is when you are faced, for example, with the Specter of the Brocken - or with an unidentified flying object that is...well, unidentified...then Lights in the Sky will provide all the practical scientific information you need.Springeroai:cds.cern.ch:27053442007
spellingShingle Astrophysics and Astronomy
Maunder, Michael
Lights in the sky: identifying and understanding astronomical and meteorological phenomena
title Lights in the sky: identifying and understanding astronomical and meteorological phenomena
title_full Lights in the sky: identifying and understanding astronomical and meteorological phenomena
title_fullStr Lights in the sky: identifying and understanding astronomical and meteorological phenomena
title_full_unstemmed Lights in the sky: identifying and understanding astronomical and meteorological phenomena
title_short Lights in the sky: identifying and understanding astronomical and meteorological phenomena
title_sort lights in the sky: identifying and understanding astronomical and meteorological phenomena
topic Astrophysics and Astronomy
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