Lights in the Sky Identifying and Understanding Astronomical and Meteorological Phenomena
Title:
Lights in the Sky Identifying and Understanding Astronomical and Meteorological Phenomena
Author:
Maunder, Michael. author.
ISBN:
9781846287619
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Physical Description:
XV, 227 p. online resource.
Series:
Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series,
Contents:
Part 1: Identifier -- Daylight -- Dawn and Dusk -- Night -- Part 2: Astronomical and Meteorological Phenomena -- Dawn: Zodiacal light -- Season for pre-dawn sighting -- Red sky, Shepherd's warning -- Crepuscular rays -- Daylight: Haloes and coronas also detached arcs -- Sundogs and mock suns.-Iridescence -- Glories -- Heiligenschein -- Rainbows and fogbows -- Dusk: Zodiacal light Season for twilight sightings -- Red sky Shepherd's delight -- Solar pillars -- Green flash -- Spectre of the Brocken -- Mother of pearl clouds -- Volcanic dust ( Krakatoa 1888, via El Chicon 1981 to Pinatubo 1990) -- Other dust: Bishop's ring, green and blue suns -- Night: Light pollution -- Milky Way -- Messier objects -- Caldwell objects -- Gegenschein -- Lunar haloes -- Lunar rainbows -- Aurorae -- Nacreous clouds -- Noctilucent clouds -- Meteors -- Other phenomena: marsh gas, fireflies: Lightning -- Ball lightning -- UFOs: Human perception -- Mistaken identities -- Astronomical and meteorological -- Man-made -- Extraterrestrial visitors?- Burden of proof -- The Fermi paradox.
Abstract:
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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Electronic Access:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-761-9