A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets (Peterson Field Guide Series)

Pasachoff, Jay M.,Menzel, Donald H.

ISBN 10: 0395910994 / ISBN 13: 9780395910993

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets (Peterson Field Guide Series)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395910994
• ISBN 13: 9780395910993
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Provides detailed maps and charts and information about stars, nebulae, galaxies, the planets, comets, asteroids, and meteors

About the Author

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.