Author: Paul DicksonLearn all the details about the origin of Sputnik I, the first man-made satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. Also learn how it triggered the space-race between the USSRS and the USA and how it shocked American scientists and politicians and wounded their pride. |
First published in 1971, this book provides a simple introduction to all the solar system planets, including Pluto. However published well before the discovery of exoplanets.
An interesting book that explores in detail how cultures dating back hundreds and thousands of years tried to explain the heavens and how it worked. Crystal spheres, epicycles, armillary spheres, meridian quadrants, parallactic rulers and countless other tools and concepts were developed and tested to explain how the planets cross the sky and how the stars light the night. |
BAS will conduct periodic, hopefully monthly, telescope nights within metro Brisbane, at the Tingalpa Aero Modelling Club facility at Stanton Road, West, Tingalpa.
BAS members will be informed of these events, in advance, via email. Specific date and time information will be provided in the emails.
The location provides extensive grassed areas with minimal directly-intrusive street lighting. These nights will be an excellent opportunity for telescope beginners to hone their skills before heading out of the city to darker skies.
Telescope setup will be in the grassed carpark area just to the west of the main aero club facilities. BAS will have the key to operate the Stanton Road security boom gate to the parkland area.
The address is Stanton Road, West, Tingalpa.
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If you ever needed a book to help you explore the wonderful night skies from down under, be it Australia, South America, South Africa or New Zealand, this is it!
With hundreds of full colour star charts and maps of the Moon and planets of our Solar System, this book will ensure you get the most out of a pair of binoculars or a small telescope from suburban and dark country sky locations.
Beautifully illustrated with many tips and advice on how to both understand, observe and even photograph the night sky, including the stars, galaxies, nebulae, Sun, Moon, asteroids, comets and planets from the back yard, this book is your essential guide and reference to the celestial wonders of the Southern Night Sky..
Information on common telescope designs and tips for observing the night sky.
In a year that will probably be remembered almost as much for books about the millennium as for the turn of 2000 A.D. itself, Patrick Moore’s Millennium Yearbook celebrates…..well, the wrong millennium! This thoroughly entertaining book – which is for everyone, not just astronomers – contains articles on King Alfred’s chronological work, reviews of the new Star Catalogue by the Arab Al-Sufi and the latest edition of Ptolemy’s Almagast. And foreshadowing the change to metric units by 1000 years, the book uses Arabic numbers instead of Roman – but there is a conversion table if you have trouble with the idea of “zero” and prefer the older system.