Peterson First Guide to the Solar System (Peterson First Guides) - Softcover
Budding astronomers--backyard or armchair--will learn not only where to look for the planets in the nighttime sky but also how space missions to the planets and their moons have increased our understanding of Earth, its atmosphere, and the moon. 100 color photographs.
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Jay M. Pasachoff is the Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy and director of the Hopkins Observatory at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Professor Pasachoff has done extensive research on the solar corona at total eclipses and has been on 29 eclipse expeditions. He has also used a wide variety of telescopes around the world. He is the author of popular textbooks on astronomy and on other science subjects. He has twice been chair of the Astronomy Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is the chair of the Working Group on Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union and the U.S. national representative to the IAU's Commission on the Teaching of Astronomy.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Company
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0395524512
- ISBN 13 9780395524510
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages128
- IllustratorTirion Wil
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