Skywatching seeing and understanding cosmic wonders
(2011)
Nonfiction
DVD
Series:
Call Numbers:
DVD/520/SKYWATCHING
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Details
PUBLISHED
Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2011]
©2011
©2011
DESCRIPTION
3 videodiscs (approximately 540 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 172 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
ISBN/ISSN
1598037943 1852, 9781598037944
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Course no. 1852
Course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography (p. 165-172)
12 lectures, 45 minutes per lecture
Lecturer: Professor Alex Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley
DVD
CONTENTS
Disc 1: Day and night skies across all distances --
Blue sky, clouds, and lightning --
Rainbow family: sunlight and water --
Solar halos: sunlight and ice crystals --
Disc 2: Colors of sunrise and sunset --
Bright stars, constellations, and the zodiac --
Viewing the planets and their motions --
Moon, phases, and lunar eclipses --
Disc 3: Satellites, comets, and meteors --
Observing solar activity and Earth's auroras --
Solar eclipses: marvelous coincidences --
Celestial sights when the night is darkest