The Observer's Guide to Planetary Motion [E-Book] : Explaining the Cycles of the Night Sky / by Dominic Ford.
To the naked eye, the most evident defining feature of the planets is their motion across the night sky. It was this motion that allowed ancient civilizations to single them out as different from fixed stars. But how does the geometry of the Solar System give rise to the observed motions of the plan...
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Personal Name(s): | Ford, Dominic, author |
Edition: |
1st ed. 2014. |
Imprint: |
New York, NY :
Springer,
2014
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Physical Description: |
XIII, 240 pages 76 illustrations, 25 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
ISBN: |
9781493906291 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-1-4939-0629-1 |
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The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
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Subject (LOC): |
- The Motion of the Planets
- The Outer Planets
- The Inner Planets
- Mars
- The Moon
- The Deep Sky.