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100	1		_aSeargent, David A.J. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWeird Astronomy _h[electronic resource] : _bTales of Unusual, Bizarre, and Other Hard to Explain Observations / _cby David A.J. Seargent.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bSpringer New York : _bImprint: Springer, _c2011.
300			_aXIII, 304p. 46 illus., 18 illus. in color. _bonline resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aAstronomers' Universe, _x1614-659X
505	0		_aPreface -- Our Weird Moon -- Odd and Interesting Happenings Near the Sun -- Planetary Weirdness -- Weird Meteors -- Strange and Star-like Objects -- Moving Mysteries and Wandering Stars -- Facts, Fallacies, Unusual Observations and Other Miscellaneous Gleanings -- Appendix 1: The Danjon Scale of Lunar Eclipse Brightness -- Appendix 2: Lunar Eclipses 2011 - 2050 -- Appendix III: Solar Eclipses 2011 - 2030 -- Appendix IV: Transits of Mercury 2016 - 2100 -- Index.
520			_aYou go out for a night’s observing and look up at the sky. There are all the usual suspects—a splattering of stars, the Moon, Venus, maybe Mercury and Mars. Perhaps you can identify some of the constellations. If you are using binoculars or a small telescope, you can see many wonders not revealed to the naked eye but still well known to telescope users for centuries. But what if you look up and see something completely new, something unexplainable. Do your eyes deceive you? Are you really seeing what you think you are seeing? What should you do? In this fascinating account of the many oddball things people – from novice astronomers to certified experts – have observed over the years, you will be introduced to a number of unusual – and sometimes still unexplainable – phenomena occurring in our usually familiar and reassuring skies. What exactly did they see? What discoveries followed these unusual sightings? What remains unexplained? In addition to the accounts, you will find scattered throughout the book a number of suggested astronomy projects that you can do yourself. The projects range from very basic to a bit more challenging, but all are fun and all are very instructive about unusual sightings. Be sure to try them!
650		0	_aPhysics.
650		0	_aAstronomy.
650	1	4	_aPhysics.
650	2	4	_aAstronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.
650	2	4	_aPopular Science in Astronomy.
710	2		_aSpringerLink (Online service)
773	0		_tSpringer eBooks
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9781441964236
830		0	_aAstronomers' Universe, _x1614-659X
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6424-3
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