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Astronomy in a nutshell

Chapter 7: ILLUSTRATIONS
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A compact popular guide explains basic astronomical concepts and observational practice, beginning with the celestial sphere and coordinate systems and the apparent motions of stars, ecliptic, equinoxes, and precession; it then treats Earth's shape, gravity, tides, atmosphere, refraction, timekeeping, seasons, and calendar; the solar system chapter surveys the sun, planets, moon, comets, meteors, and nebulae, covering solar phenomena, lunar phases and eclipses, distance measurement, and spectroscopic analysis; practical attention is given to telescopes, observational methods, and illustrative photographs and diagrams to aid general readers and students.

ILLUSTRATIONS

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The Lunar “Crater” Copernicus Frontispiece
 
Photograph of South Polar Region of the Moon 8
 
The Moon near the “Crater” Tycho 20
 
Drawing of Jupiter 28
 
Drawing of Jupiter 28
 
Jupiter 38
 
Saturn 46
 
Saturn 46
 
The Milky Way about Chi Cygni 58
 
The Great Southern Star-Cluster in Centauri 64
 
Photograph of a Group of Sun-Spots 76
 
Polar Streamers of the Sun, Eclipse of 1889 89
 
Solar Corona at the Eclipse of 1871 89
 
Morehouse's Comet, October 15, 1908 96
 
Morehouse's Comet, November 15, 1908 96
 
Head of the Great Comet of 1861 105
 
Halley's Comet, May 5, 1910 105
 
The Six-Tailed Comet of 1744 112
 
Spiral Nebula in Ursa Major (M 101) 124
 
The Whirlpool Nebula in Canes Venatici 124
 
Tress Nebula (N. G. C. 6992) in Cygnus 132
 
The Great Andromeda Nebula 140
 
Spiral Nebula in Cepheus (H. IV. 76) 154
 
Nebulous Groundwork in Taurus 154
 
Nebula in Sagittarius (M. 8) 162
 
The Great Nebula in Orion 180
 
Photographs of Mars 200
 
Schiaparrelli’s Chart of Martian “Canals” 220
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
The Rational and the Sensible Horizon 12
 
Altitude and Azimuth 14
 
Right Ascension and Declination 35
 
The Ecliptic and Celestial Latitude and Longitude 51
 
How the Earth Controls the Moon 75
 
The Tidal Force of the Moon 79
 
Refraction 85
 
Dip of the Horizon 87
 
Sidereal and Solar Time 93
 
The Change of Day 101
 
The Seasons 107
 
Parallax of the Moon 139
 
Parallax of the Sun from Transit of Venus 141
 
Spectrum Analysis 147
 
The Phases of the Moon 160
 
Orbits of Mars and the Earth 183
 
Ellipse, Parabola, and Hyperbola 203
 
The North Circumpolar Stars 244
 
Key to North Circumpolar Stars 245

PART I.
THE CELESTIAL SPHERE.