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Transit: When Planets Cross the Sun

Handbook / Manual
By: M Maunder and P Moore
164 pages, 35 figs
Publisher: Springer Nature
Transit: When Planets Cross the Sun
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  • Transit: When Planets Cross the Sun ISBN: 9781852336219 Paperback Oct 1999 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
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About this book

Tells the story of the early scientific expeditions to observe transits and explains how to observe transits of all sorts - even transits of aircraft as they fly between the observer and the Sun.

Contents

Introduction.- Part 1 - Transits Down the Ages: The Moving Planets. Transits: Why and When. Edmond Halley and the Distance of the Sun. Transits of Mercury. Venus: the Transit of 1639. The Transit of 1761. Captain Cook and the Transit of 1769. Venus: the Transits of 1874. Venus: the Transit of 1882. The Story of Vulcan. Other Kinds of Transits. Transits from Elsewhere.- Part 2 - Observing Transits. Your Safety. Observing the Sun - Full-aperture Filters. Projecting the Sun's Image. Observing Transits. Photographing Transits. Data Capture and Manipulation.- Appendices.

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Handbook / Manual
By: M Maunder and P Moore
164 pages, 35 figs
Publisher: Springer Nature
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