Chapter
Occultations and conjunctions
The atmosphere of mercury
Earth-based observations, pre-1964
Early space missions to mars
Topography of mars: the polar caps
Basins, valleys and volcanoes
Twenty-first century missions
Mars reconnaisance orbiter
The continuing search for life; meteorites from mars
Planetary transits visible from mars
8 • Minor members of the Solar System
Classification of asteroids
Other Main Belt asteroids
Asteroid diameters and absolute magnitudes
Asteroids closer in than the Main Belt
Space missions to asteroids
Asteroids further out than the main belt
Occultations and conjunctions
The South Tropical Disturbance
Internal structure of Jupiter
Radio emissions and Magnetosphere
Comet or asteroid collision, 2009
The small inner satellites
The small outer satellites
Observations of the globe
Magnetic field and auroræ
Why are the rings so complex?
The small inner satellites
Main region of satellites: Mimas to Iapetus
Surface markings from Earth
The small inner satellites
13 • Beyond Neptune: the Kuiper Belt
The hunt for a trans-Neptunian planet
Types of trans-Neptunians
The selected list in Table 13.5
P/29 Schwassmann-Wachmann 1
P/67 Churyumov-Gerasimenko (`Chury´)
P/73 Schwassmann-Wachmann 3
Extra-terrestrial meteors
Nature of meteorites: early ideas
Classification of meteorites
17 • Glows and atmospheric effects
Other atmospheric phenomena
The Green Flash (or Green Ray)
Stars of the first magnitude
19 • Stellar spectra and evolution
(1) Stars with mass below 0.08 that of the Sun, or 80 times that of Jupiter
(3) Stars more than 1.4 times as massive as the Sun
Magnetars and black holes
(4) Stars too massive initially to form neutron stars
The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
(N*) represents the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy
(fp) is the fraction of stars that have planets around them
(ne) is the number of planets per star that are capable of sustaining life
(fl) is the fraction of planets in ne where life evolves
(fi) is the fraction of fi where intelligent life evolves
(fc) is the fraction of fi that communicate
(fL) is fraction of the planets life during which the communicating civilisations live
Very long-period eclipsing binaries
Semi-regular variables (SR)
Flare stars: UV Ceti (UV)type
RS Canum Venaticorum (RS) variables
R Coronæ Borealis (RCB) variables
S Doradûs (SDOR) variables
gamma Cassiopeæ (GCAS) variables
α2 Canum Venaticorum (ACV) stars
Ellipsoidal (ELL) variables
FK Comæ (FKCom) variables
SX Arietis (SXARI) variables
Some remarkable variables
Pair-Instability supernoæ
Confirmed galactic supernovæ
SN 1006, the Lupus supernova
Tychos Star, SN 1572 (B Cassiopeiæ)
Supernovæ in the Local Group
The Pleiades (M 45, in Taurus)
Præsepe (Latin for `Manger´; M 44 and NGC 2632)
The Wild Duck Cluster (M 11, NGC 6705)
The Jewel Box (NGC 4755, C 94)
25 • The Milky Way Galaxy
BL Lacertæ objects (BL Lacs)
Luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs)
Expansion of the universe
27 • Evolution of the universe
Expansion, inflation and acceleration
Camelopardus (or Camelopardalis)
30 • Telescopes and observatories
31 • Non-optical astronomy
32 • The history of astronomy
History of space research
Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy
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