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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Basic Information for Astronomical Observers The 50 Best Sights Field of View: 180 degrees (the whole sky) to 100 degrees (naked-eye scan) Sight 1. The Starry Sky Sight 2. Total Eclipse of the Sun Sight 3. Meteor Shower or Storm Sight 4. Fireball Meteor Sight 5. The Northern Lights or Aurora Sight 6. Bright Satellite or Spacecraft Sight 7. The Milky Way Field of view: 100 degrees to 50 degrees (the widest fixed naked-eye field) Sight 8. The Big Dipper and the North Star Sight 9. The Orion Group of Constellations Sight 10. The Summer Triangle Region Field of view: 50 degrees to 15 degrees (moderately wide naked-eye field) Sight 11. Venus or Mercury at Greatest Elongation Sight 12. Venus, Jupiter, or Mars at Brightest Sight 13. Bright Comet with Long Tail Sight 14. Sirius, the Brightest Star Sight 15. Other Bright Stars Sight 16. Orion Sight 17. Other Prominent Constellations Field of view: 15 degrees to 1 degree (narrow naked-eye field, binoculars field, wide telescopic field) Sight 18. Total Eclipse of the Moon Sight 19. Total Eclipse of the Sun Close-Up Sight 20. The Moon at Full and Other Phases Sight 21. Very Thin Crescent Moon Sight 22. Lunar Conjunctions and Occultations Sight 23. Planetary Conjunctions Sight 24. Bright Comet Close-Up Sight 25. The Hyades Star Cluster and Aldebaran Sight 26. The Pleiades Sight 27. Other Very Bright, Large Open Star Clusters Sight 28. Orion?s Belt and Sword Sight 29. Algol, Mira, and Other Dramatic Variable Stars Sight 30. Novae, Supernovae, and Supernova Remnants Sight 31. Starriest Fields Sight 32. The Sagittarius Milky Way Region Sight 33. The Great Andromeda Galaxy Sight 34. The Realm of the Galaxies Field of view: 1 degree to 1/10 degree or less (medium to narrow telescopic field) Sight 35. Overall Telescopic Views of the Moon Sight 36. Close-Up Views of Lunar Craters and Other Features Sight 37. Sunspots and Other Solar Features Sight 38. Partial Eclipses of the Sun Sight 39. Transits of Mercury and Venus Sight 40. Venus Near Inferior Conjunction Sight 41. Jupiter and Its Moons Sight 42. Saturn and Its Rings and Moons Sight 43. Mars at Closest in Telescopes Sight 44. Uranus, Neptune, and Other Dim But Important Worlds Sight 45. A Colorful or Otherwise Striking Double Star Sight 46. The Great Orion Nebula Sight 47. A Rich Open Cluster Sight 48. A Bright Globular Cluster Sight 49. A Bright Planetary Nebula Sight 50. A Bright and Structured Galaxy Appendices Glossary Sources of Information Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Astronomy -- Observer's manual.
Astronomy -- Amateurs' manual.