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Language: English
Published by Astropixels Publishing, 2021
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- Title
- Fifty Year Almanac of Astronomical Events - 2021 to 2070
- Author
- Espenak, Fred
- Publisher
- Astropixels Publishing
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1941983359
- ISBN 13
- 9781941983355
The Fifty Year Almanac of Astronomical Events: 2021 to 2070 is a catalog listing a wide range of solar system phenomena as seen from Earth. Each year gives a concise compendium of the most conspicuous and/or significant astronomical events involving the Sun, Moon and the planets.
The astronomical events include the following.
- solar and lunar eclipses
- phases of the Moon
- apogees and perigees of the Moon
- Equinoxes and Solstices of Earth
- aphelion and perihelion (Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus)
- oppositions and conjunctions of the planets
- elongations of Mercury and Venus
- close conjunctions of the Moon with the planets and bright stars
- close conjunctions of planets with bright stars and other planets
- peak of major meteor showers
The date and time of each event is given in Greenwich Mean Time (= Coordinated Universal Time). With 200+ events each year, the Fifty Year Almanac includes over 10,200 astronomical events.
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