E-book Category: Hobbies E-book Title: Magical Experiments Author: Dr. Brian Ventrudo Book Description: So You Want To Be A Stargazer?
Have you gazed in wonder into the sky on a dark, clean night? The Moon, the crackle stars, and the graceful arc of the Milklike Way across the sky have control humanity in awe since the time of our earliest ancestors.
If you've arrived at this web page, then you too must will to cognize the night sky. Perhaps, for one reason or another, you ne'er
had the chance. But as you see this page, you'll discover an astonishing resource that will do it easy to discover the stars and constellations as well as you cognize the streets of your own house town.
And you won't simply discover a few bright stars. You'll get a personal tour of hundreds of stars and the major constellations in the northern and near-southern sky, on
with an introduction to the brighter galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae visible with the unaided eye or with a simple pair of cheap binoculars.
Once you follow the sky tours in this resource, not one person in a thousand will cognize as more simply about the night sky as you do.
And you will discover to easily find several of the most spectacular sights in the night sky, including ... • A hazy patch of stars in the constellation Cancer... once used by ancient sky watchers to forecast oncoming storms, long before Astronomer discovered this mysterious cloud was actually a cluster of blue-white stars
• The rich star fields towards the center of our galaxy in the constellation Sagitarrius, house to dozens of nebulae and star clusters inside
easy reach of a beginning star gazer with binoculars
• Two huge spiral galaxies visible to the naked eye (and lovely in binoculars), the light of which you see has spent more than 2 million years crossing the void of collection space (these are the most distant objects you can see without optical aid)
• The "demon star" in the constellation Perseus that eclipses like mechanism
every few days (you can easily see this star with the naked eye)
• Two dazzling star clusters in Taurus that look better in a $50 pair of binoculars than in a $10,000 telescope
• A glowing blister of celestial body gas in Orion that's right now giving birth to hot, silver-blue young stars
• A number of massive ancient red star
stars that are inexorably moving to the end of their lives as ruinous star
explosions
• And more more...
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