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Observers no longer need to wonder what they will turn their attention to each night of the year with this updated text of a beloved favorite from Sir Partick Moore. His night-by-night account of the stars is the best possible guide an observer could ask for, and now includes the latest data for the years 2015-2020, preserving and extending Sir Patrick Moores legacy.

This new edition of his classic text makes it easy to see why Sir Patrick Moore was such a helpful guide to generations of budding astronomers, professional and amateur alike. For every night of the year Patrick gives the reader details of interesting objects that can be seen from Earth. It is a book for people with a wide interest in practical astronomy, those who may not have specialized in a specific area of astronomy and wish to expand their knowledge in all areas. Moore updated his book in a second edition in 2005, giving astronomical events through 2010, but a more current version has been desperately lacking. This third edition includes Sir Patricks original text but revises its time-sensitive material and adds all of the points of interest that change from year to year, such as eclipses, occultations, planetary positions, and so on.

Sir Patrick Moore left behind an enormous legacy, including the worlds longest-running television series with the same original presenter, the BBCs The Sky at Night, and more than 70 written works. His influence on the world of amateur astronomy was phenomen

al, and his knowledge and passion led many to take up observing as a life-long hobby. This book, The Observers Year, 366 Nights of the Universe was, he said, one of his personal favorites. It now features a tribute to Patrick Moores legacy as well as including what has changed in astronomy since the previous edition ten years ago.

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Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Mike Inglis (ed.) Patrick Moores Observers Year: 366 Nights of the Universe The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series 10.1007/978-3-319-18678-8_1
January
Mike Inglis 1
(1)
Long Island, NY, USA
The January Sky
The Two Most Famous Constellations
The Poles of the Sky
The Quadrantid Meteors
The Horse and his Rider
The Faintest Star in the Plough
The Little Bearand the Guardians of the Pole
The Legend of the Bears
Lunokhod 2 on the Moon
Colors of the Stars
Phases of the Inferior Planets
Orion, the Hunter
Orion as a Guide
The Legend of Orion
Betelgeux
Rigel
Comets
Hare in the Sky
The Dove, the Graving Tool and Declination
The Belt and the Sword
Features of the Moon
Right Ascension
Clusters in Cassiopeia
Variable Stars in Cassiopeia
Tychos Star
Northern and Southern Lights
King Cepheus
Variable Stars in Cepheus
The Celestial Lizard
Introduction to Eridanus
Lunar History
Ja - photo 1
January 1 Anniversary On 1 January 1801 Piazzi at Palermo discovered - photo 2
January 1 Anniversary On 1 January 1801 Piazzi at Palermo discovered Ceres - photo 3
January 1 Anniversary On 1 January 1801 Piazzi at Palermo discovered Ceres - photo 4
January 1
Anniversary
On 1 January 1801 Piazzi, at Palermo, discovered Ceres, the largest of the minor planets or asteroids. Unfortunately it is never bright enough to be visible with the naked eye.
Future Points of Interest
2018: Mercury at western elongation.
The January Sky
When you start to learn your way around the night sky, the first thing to remember is that the stars always stay in the same relative positionsor virtually so; the constellations which we see today are to all intents and purposes the same as those which must have been seen by Julius Csar or the warriors of the Trojan War. It is only our near neighbors, the members of the Solar System, which wander around from one group to another. This makes star recognition very much easier, particularly as there are only a few thousands of stars visible with the naked eye.
All in all, 88 constellations are recognized by the International Astronomical Union (a full list of them is given in the Appendix). They are very diverse in size and brightness, but they are purely arbitrary; the patterns have no real significance, because the stars lie at very different distances from us, and we are dealing merely with line of sight effects. Still, the patterns are distinctive enough, and during January evenings we can see one of the most striking of them all: Orion, the celestial Hunter, with his two brilliant stars (Betelgeux and Rigel) and his Belt and Sword. Orion is crossed by the celestial equator, and can therefore be seen from every inhabited country. As a signpost in the sky Orion is unrivalled; from it we can locate many other stars and groupssuch as the brilliant Sirius, which lies in line with the three stars of the Belt, and far outshines any other star in the sky. In the other direction the Belt stars show the way to the orange-red Aldebaran, in the Bull; and so on.
Almost equally useful is Ursa Major, the Great Bear, whose seven main stars make up the pattern known as the Plough or the Big Dipper. From it we can identify Polaris, the northern Pole Star. Observers in Australia or South Africa will not see Ursa Major during January evenings, and will never see our Pole Star; but they do have the glorious Southern Cross, together with the Pointers, Alpha and Beta Centauri.
The charts given here show the evening sky in January as seen from latitude 52 N, approximately that of London, and 35 S, corresponding to Sydney or Cape Town. The best way to start learning is to find a few distinctive groups, and use them as guides to the rest. If you have the patience to follow me through the year, I assure you that you will end up with a very sound working knowledge of the sky.
January 2
Anniversary
On 2 January 1959 the Russians launched their first unmanned rocket toward the Moon: Luna 1. It passed the Moon at 3700 miles on 4 January, and sent back information showing, for example, that the Moon has no overall magnetic field, so that your magnetic compass will not work there.
Future Points of Interest
Earth at Perihelion: 2016.
The Two Most Famous Constellations
Despite the splendor of Orion, there is little doubt that the two best-known constellations in the sky are Ursa Major (the Great Bear) in the northern hemisphere, and Crux Australis (the Southern Cross) in the southern. Both are on view tonightbut which you will see depends upon where you are!
From latitudes such as those of Britain, Ursa Major will be in the north-east after dark. Its seven main stars make up the Plough or Dipper pattern; though they are not outstandingly bright, they cannot be mistaken, particularly as from Britain or the northern United States they never set. They are:
Ursa Major
Greek letter
Name
Magnitude
Luminosity (Sun=1)
Distance (light-years)
Alpha
Dubhe
1.8
Beta
Merok
2.4
Gamma
Phod
2.4
Delta
Megrez
3.3
Epsilon
Alioth
1.8
Zeta
Mizor
2.1
56+1
Eta
Alkaid
1.9
A little clarification is needed here. A stars apparent magnitude is a measure of how bright it looks; the lower the magnitude, the brighter the starthus Alkaid (1.9) is brighter than Phad (2.4). Distances are measured in light-years. One light-year is the distance travelled by a ray of light in 1 year; roughly 5.8 million million miles. The table shows that Alkaid is the most distant of the seven stars; it and Dubhe are travelling through space in a direction opposite to that of the other five.
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