Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Earth and sky
- Chapter 2 Moon and planet observer's hardware
- Chapter 3 The Solar System framed
- Chapter 4 Stacking up the Solar System
- Chapter 5 Our Moon
- Chapter 6 Mercury and Venus
- Chapter 7 Mars
- Chapter 8 Jupiter
- Chapter 9 Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
- Chapter 10 Small worlds
- Chapter 11 Comets
- Chapter 12 Our daytime star
- Appendix 1 Telescope collimation
- Appendix 2 Field-testing a telescope's optics
- Appendix 3 Polar alignment
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Earth and sky
- Chapter 2 Moon and planet observer's hardware
- Chapter 3 The Solar System framed
- Chapter 4 Stacking up the Solar System
- Chapter 5 Our Moon
- Chapter 6 Mercury and Venus
- Chapter 7 Mars
- Chapter 8 Jupiter
- Chapter 9 Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
- Chapter 10 Small worlds
- Chapter 11 Comets
- Chapter 12 Our daytime star
- Appendix 1 Telescope collimation
- Appendix 2 Field-testing a telescope's optics
- Appendix 3 Polar alignment
- Index
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- Observing the Solar SystemThe Modern Astronomer's Guide, pp. 477 - 489Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012