Moongazing: Beginner's Guide to Exploring the Moon

Author: Royal Observatory Greenwich
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780008305000
Category : Moon
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
An in-depth guide for aspiring astronomers and Moon observers. Includes detailed Moon maps and covers the history of lunar observation and exploration, the properties of the Moon, its origin and orbit. Optimised for colour tablets, the images in this ebook are not best-suited for viewing on black and white devices. This is the ideal book for Moon observers covering essential equipment, and the key events to look out for. Detailed advice is given on how to choose a telescope and how to capture the Moon in sketches. Discover all you need to know about eclipses, blue moons, supermoons, conjunctions and occultations. A comprehensive section covers astrophotography using lenses, telescopes, Smartphones, including video and how to process your images. Comes with a photographic atlas of lunar features with plates and annotated maps. A glossary of key terms, index of lunar features and software references are also provided.

The Book of the Moon

Author: Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683356020
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
The BBC’s “face of space” explores all things lunar in this comprehensive guide to the folklore, facts, and possible futures of our only natural satellite. Have you ever wondered if there are seasons on the moon or if space tourism will ever become widely accessible? So has Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock, astronomer and host of the BBC’s docuseries, The Sky at Night. In this lucidly written guide, Aderin-Pocock takes readers on a fascinating lunar journey. Aderin-Pocock begins with a basic overview—unpacking everything from the moon’s topography and composition to its formation and orbit around the Earth. She examines beliefs held by ancient civilizations, the technology that allowed for the first moon landing, a brief history of moongazing, and how the moon has influenced culture throughout the years. Looking to the future, she delves into the pros and cons of continued space travel and exploration. Throughout the book are sidebars, graphs, and charts to enhance the facts as well as black-and-white illustrations of the moon and stars.

Moon Gazer

Author: Mari Mancusi
Publisher: Love Spell
ISBN: 9780505527257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378

Book Description
When a tech-savvy game programmer begins having dreams about a bleak and impossible alternate reality, she soon learns the truth: the reality she sees is her life, and she is the leader of a movement against the very lifelike game world in which she has been imprisoned.

A Full Moon is Rising

Author: Marilyn Singer
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 1430130059
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
All around the world people are affected by and in awe of a full moon. In this poetic exploration of the lunar wonder, places near and far provide the backdrop for discovering celebrations, beliefs, customs and facts about the moon. From Broadway to Hong Kong to the International Space Station, the various perspectives, sparkling verses and depth of information create a fascinating rendering of a familiar, yet remarkable sight.

Suppressed Information on How Women Can Save Christ Seed and Transmute Their Vital Essence

Author: Simona Rich
Publisher: Simona Rich
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 10

Book Description
In this document I share with you my recent discovery in #Taoist sources about how women lose their vital essence, which is different to men, and how they can save it to create an immortal embryo - the Christ seed. An article is much more detailed than the video. There is very important information for men too, but it's only entry-level, thus directed at those who never heard of the information of saving Christ seed.

The Lunar Code

Author: Ken Ring
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1775537420
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
How you can forecast the weather by the moon. Weather forecasting by the moon has been practised for thousands of years and almanacs were once a common feature of rural life, foretelling storms, floods, and droughts. Ken Ring's mathematical theory that revives the old idea about the moon influencing the weather has provoked a great deal of public interest and debate, and The Lunar Code explains the science behind Ken's work — the mathematics, ancient divination techniques and recently discovered data from space research. This book tells how you, too, can forecast weather by the moon: * Discover how to interpret the coming weather from the moon’s size, shape and appearance. * Predict for yourself weather-related disasters arriving in your region. * Enjoy moon-gazing, as humans have done since the beginning of time, but with a fresh perspective.

Horizon

Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525656219
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 359

Book Description
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES • NPR • THE GUARDIAN From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author’s travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica. Along the way, Lopez probes the long history of humanity’s thirst for exploration, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in northern Canada, the colonialists who plundered Central Africa, an enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific, a Native American emissary who found his way into isolationist Japan, and today’s ecotourists in the tropics. And always, throughout his journeys to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world.

The moon : considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite

Author: James Nasmyth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Moon
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description

The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan, Vol. 2

Author: Nagaru Tanigawa
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
ISBN: 0316218758
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
"Let's track down aliens, time travelers, and psychics and hang out with them!" Haruhi Suzumiya established the SOS Brigade for that sole purpose. But why's she been acting so strange of late? So...melancholy? Unable to locate any supernatural beings (even though they're right there in the club room the whole time), Haruhi's frustrations turn violent. What's Kyon gotten himself mixed up in this time?! Enjoy volume 2 of this somewhat abnormal high school story!

The Way of the Hare

Author: Marianne Taylor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472915879
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
To the people of rural Britain, hares are deeply beloved, perhaps above all other animals. They thrive in abundance in imagery but can be maddeningly elusive in reality. In our stories – ancient and modern – they are magical, uncanny and illogical beings which commune with the moon, vanish at will, and lose their minds when spring arrives. Yet despite the breadth and depth of its legends, the brown hare of the lowlands is a relative newcomer to our islands, and our 'real' ancient hare is the mountain hare of the most unforgiving high mountainsides. Hares of myth have godly powers, but real, earthbound hares walk a dangerous line – they are small animals with many predators but have no burrow or tunnel to shelter them from danger. They survive by a combination of two skills honed to unimaginable extremes – hiding in plain sight, and running faster than anything and anyone. The need to excel as hiders and runners ultimately directs every aspect of hare biology and behaviour, as well as inspiring our own wild ideas about hare-kind. This book explores hares as they are and as we imagine them, and the long and often bloody history of our association with these enigmatic animals. Elegant studies of molecular biology and biomechanical physics help us understand how hares are put together, while centuries of game estate records reveal how humans have commodified and exploited them. But it is ultimately the moments spent in the company of wild hares that allow us to bring together myth and reality to celebrate the magic of the living animal.