Mike Lynch's Minnesota StarWatchMike Lynch is Minnesota’s most popular amateur astronomer and instructor. He has been leading stargazing classes for more than 30 years as well as writing a weekly astronomy column for the "St. Paul Pioneer Press". In his other life, Mike has been a meteorologist and popular radio personality at WCCO Radio for 23 years. Now with "Mike Lynch’s Minnesota StarWatch" you can easily pick up what thousands of Minnesotans, ages 12 and up, have learned in his popular stargazing classes. You won’t find a more enthusiastic guide to the night sky than Mike Lynch and you won’t find a better guidebook to our night sky than "Mike Lynch’s Minnesota Star Watch". |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 8 |
A Sky Full of Constellations | 29 |
CHAPTER 4 | 35 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
Albireo Alcor Algol Altair Andromeda Galaxy Apollo Aquila Arcturus astronomers AURIGA Bear URSA Beehive Cluster Betelgeuse Big Bear Big Dipper binoculars Boötes BOREALIS bright star brightest star Canis Major CANIS MINOR Capella Cassiopeia Castor Celestial Goodies celestial sphere Cepheus chariot comet constella constellation Corvus CYGNUS The Swan dark Deneb diameter distance DRACO Dubhe earth eyepiece full moon Globular cluster Greek horizon hydrogen Jupiter light Little Dipper look lunar Magnitude Mars Merak meteor MILKY WAY BAND million miles Mirfak Mizar moderate telescope naked eye night sky North Star Northern Cross open cluster orbit Pegasus Perseus Double Cluster planets Pleiades Polaris Pollux Princess Rasalgethi red giant Sagittarius Saturn scorpion Scorpius skies small telescope small to moderate solar system star clusters star maps stargazing Summer Triangle sun's supernova surface Synodic Period tail Taurus Thomas Matheson Thuban tion URSA MAJOR URSA MINOR Vega Venus Virgo Zeus