David H. Levy is the co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy, which slammed into Jupiter in 1994 in a series of spectacular explosions with a force equal to several million tons of TNT. He is the author of More Things in Heaven and Earth, the Man Who Sold the Milky Way, The Ultimate Universe and Impact Jupiter. Levy was asked by Parade Magazine to take over the science column after the death of Carl Sagan. Levy is also the editor of The Scientific American Book of the Cosmos.
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Foreword Opening thoughts Acknowledgments Part I. Getting To Know The Sky: 1. Beginning with the Big Dipper 2. Magnitude, color, and distance 3. A word on binoculars and telescopes 4. Learning to see Part II. Getting To Know The Variables: 5. Meeting the family 6. Getting started with Cepheids 7. Algol, the demon of autumn 8. How to estimate a variable 9. Names and records 10. Observing hints 11. Stately and wonderful 12. Stars of challenge 13. Bright, easy, and interesting 14. Betelgeuse: easy and hard 15. Not too regular 16. Nova? What nova? 17. Supernovae 18. Three stars for all seasons 19. A nova in reverse 20. RU Lupi? 21. Orion, the star factory 22. Other variable things 23. The Sun Part III. Suggested Variables For Observation Throughout The Year: Introduction: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, Southern sky notes Part IV. A Miscellany: 24. Stars and people 25. The next generation 26. Going further Glossary and abbreviations Index.
Foreword Opening thoughts Acknowledgments Part I. Getting To Know The Sky: 1. Beginning with the Big Dipper 2. Magnitude, color, and distance 3. A word on binoculars and telescopes 4. Learning to see Part II. Getting To Know The Variables: 5. Meeting the family 6. Getting started with Cepheids 7. Algol, the demon of autumn 8. How to estimate a variable 9. Names and records 10. Observing hints 11. Stately and wonderful 12. Stars of challenge 13. Bright, easy, and interesting 14. Betelgeuse: easy and hard 15. Not too regular 16. Nova? What nova? 17. Supernovae 18. Three stars for all seasons 19. A nova in reverse 20. RU Lupi? 21. Orion, the star factory 22. Other variable things 23. The Sun Part III. Suggested Variables For Observation Throughout The Year: Introduction: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, Southern sky notes Part IV. A Miscellany: 24. Stars and people 25. The next generation 26. Going further Glossary and abbreviations Index.
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