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Transit When Planets Cross the Sun Michael Maunder

Transit When Planets Cross the Sun By Michael Maunder

Transit When Planets Cross the Sun by Michael Maunder


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Summary

Although transits of planets across the Sun are rare (only Mercury and Venus orbit the Sun closer than us, and so can transit the Suns disc) amateur astronomers can observe, record and image other kinds of transits that are much more frequent.

Transit When Planets Cross the Sun Summary

Transit When Planets Cross the Sun: When Planets Cross the Sun by Michael Maunder

Although transits of planets across the Sun are rare (only Mercury and Venus orbit the Sun closer than us, and so can transit the Suns disc) amateur astronomers can observe, record and image other kinds of transits that are much more frequent. This book first tells the fascinating story of the early scientific expeditions to observe transits. It then explains how to observe transits of all sorts - even transits of aircraft as they fly between the observer and the Sun.

Table of Contents

1: Transits down the Ages.- 1 The Moving Planets.- 2 Transits: Why and When?.- 3 Edmond Halley and the Distance of the Sun.- 4 Transits of Mercury.- 5 Venus: The Transit of 1639.- 6 The Transit of 1761.- 7 Captain Cook and the Transit of 1769.- 8 Venus: The Transit of 1874.- 9 Venus: The Transit of 1882.- 10 The Story of Vulcan.- 11 Other Kinds of Transits.- 12 Future Transits.- 2: Observing Transits.- 13 Your Safety.- 14 Observing the Sun: Full-Aperture Filters.- 15 Projecting the Sun's Image.- 16 Observing Transits.- 17 Photographing Transits.- 18 Data Capture and Manipulation.

Additional information

GOR006888162
9781852336219
1852336218
Transit When Planets Cross the Sun: When Planets Cross the Sun by Michael Maunder
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Springer London Ltd
19991001
164
N/A
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