作者：(英)帕诺斯·菲蒂诺斯
页数：120
出版社：哈尔滨工业大学出版社
出版日期：2021
ISBN：9787560394398
电子书格式：PDF
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内容简介
本书是一部天文学英文版科普著作，这本书是面向普通读者的，没有数学或科学方面的特殊背景也可以阅读。该书的主要目的是对观测天文学的基本概念进行简要而独立的介绍，目的是帮助读者理解各种资源中提供的信息，以及这些信息告诉我们的有关夜空的运动模式及其外貌。
目录
Acknowledgements
Author biography
1 Introduction
1．1A brief survey of celestial objects and a sense of scale
1．2 The size of objects in the Solar System
1．3 Objects beyond the Solar System
1．4 Distances of celestial objects
2 The celestial sphere and apparent motion of the Sun
2．1 The celestial sphere
2．2 The annual motion of the Sun
2．3 The Sun’s analemma
2．4 The motion of the sunrise and sunset points
2．5 The motion of the celestial poles
3 Coordinate systems
3．1 The equatorial coordinate system
3．2 The hour angle
3．3 The altitude——azimuth coordinate system
3．4 The local paths of stars
3．5 Which stars can be seen from a given location?
3．6 When can a star be seen in the night sky?
3．7 The ecliptic coordinate system
3．8 Resources
4 The motion and phases of the Moon
4．1 The phases of the Moon
4．2 The diurnal motion of the Moon
4．3 East and west elongation
4．4 Features of the Moon
4．5 The Moon’s orbital path
4．6 Eclipses
4．6．1 Lunar eclipses
4．6．2 Solar eclipses
4．7 The sidereal and synodic periods of the Moon
4．8 The apparent size of the Moon
4．9 The ocean tides
4．10 Resources
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5 The planets
6 Comets， meteoroids and meteor showers
7 Constellations， asterisms and star names
8 Star properties
9 Telescopes
Appendices