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[...]... The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Astronomy, Second Edition We are not alone No science is more inclusive than astronomy Nor is astronomy strictly a spectator sport You don’t have to peek through a knothole and watch the game You’re welcome to step right up to the plate Many new comets are discovered by astronomy buffs, backyard sky watchers, not Ph.D scientists in a domed observatory Most meteor observations... He later moved to the VLA for two years, where he completed his UNC Ph.D., working on radio observations of compact HII regions He received his doctorate in 1996 and then moved to Decatur, Georgia, to join the faculty of Agnes Scott College as (not surprisingly) a professor of astronomy Astronomy at Agnes Scott has begun a new and vital era, and readers of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Astronomy, Second... Ph.D Director, Very Large Array, Very Long Baseline Array National Radio Astronomy Observatory of the National Science Foundation 00 1981 FM 6/11/01 9:55 AM Page xix Introduction You are not alone Relax That statement has nothing to do with the existence of extraterrestrial life— though we will get around to that, too, way out in Chapter 24, “Table for One.” For the present, it applies only to our mutual... role Chris De Pree and Alan Axelrod present a comprehensive tour of the universe in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Astronomy, Second Edition Readers will enjoy the historical approach, starting with the ancients, moving on to Copernicus and Galileo, and ending in the modern era with Neil Armstrong and others This book provides an excellent guide not only for first-time observers, but also for experienced... Idiot’s Guide to Astronomy, Second Edition You Can Do This, Too! 125 Amateur Radio Astronomy: No-Cost and Low-Cost Approaches 126 Solar Flares and Meteor Events 127 ET Phone Home 128 The Rest of the Spectrum 128 New Infrared and Ultraviolet Observations 129 Chandrasekhar and the X-Ray Revolution 129 Capturing the Full Spectrum 130 9 Space Race: From Sputnik to. .. of additional information, including great astronomy Web sites Extras In addition to the main text and illustrations of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Astronomy, Second Edition, you’ll also find other types of useful information, including definitions of key terms, important statistics and scientific principles, amazing facts, and special subjects of interest to sky watchers Look for these features: Astro... issues, or persons in astronomy Star Words These boxes define some key terms used in astronomy Astronomer’s Notebook This feature highlights important statistics, scientific laws and principles, measurements, and mathematical formulas xxi 00 1981 FM 6/11/01 9:56 AM Page xxii The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Astronomy, Second Edition Trademarks All terms mentioned in this book that are known to be or are suspected... deepening toward twilight into a ruddy hue before slipping below the horizon to the west Without electric power, your working hours are dictated by the presence of the sun’s light Flat Earth, Big Bowl As the sun’s glow fades and your eyes become accustomed to the night, the sky gradually fills with stars Thousands of them shimmer blue, silvery white, some gold, some reddish, seemingly set into a great... Star Words Light pollution is the result of photons of light that goes up instead of down Light that goes down (from fixtures) illuminates the ground Light that goes up makes the stars harder to see Contact your local astronomy club to find ways to combat light pollution 4 Maybe that number has brought you back through a starlit ten thousand years and into the incandescent lamp light of your living... silver glow, we may feel a connection with our ancestors of 10 millennia ago Like them, we see in the lunar blotches the face of the “Man in the Moon.” Neil Armstrong took this picture of fellow astronaut “Buzz” Aldrin about to join him on the surface of the Moon, July 20, 1969 (Image from arttoday.com) If the face of the Moon presented a puzzle to our ancestors, they were also fascinated by the way the