The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Sun

Jay M. Pasachoff

Alpha, 2003 - Nature - 350 pages

Everything revolves around it...and now skywatchers and armchair scientists can learn all about the origin and history of the sun. With information on the sun's physical properties; how solar flares, sunspots, and winds on its surface affect Earth's atmosphere and environment; solar and lunar eclipses, transits, and occultations, and early astronomers' discoveries about the sun, including Galileo, Copernicus, Francis Bailey, and the Mayans.

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Jay Pasachoff went to grad school at Caltech, and is on sabbatical for the 2008-2009 school year here.

About the author

Dr. Jay Pasachoff received his Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University in 1969. Since 1972, he has been the Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams University and the Director of Hopkins Observatory. He is also researcher at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and currently is a visiting scientist at Harvard University's Department of Astronomy, as well as the chair of the Working Group on Solar Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union. Dr. Pasachoff is the author of A Field Guide of Planets and Stars, Fourth Edition, and Nearest Star: Surprising Science of Our Sun (with Leon Glub).

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Sun; The complete idiot's guide
• Author: Jay M. Pasachoff
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Alpha, 2003
• ISBN: 1592570747, 9781592570744
• Length: 350 pages
• Subjects: Nature / Reference; Nature / Sky Observation