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THE SKY AT NIGHT

... THE SKY AT NIGHT across the field of view will be caught. Some really spectacular pictures have been taken in this way. The Perseids give us the best reliable display each year, but there are also many other showers. For instance, there are the Quadrantids ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1974
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 952 | Page: 103 | Tags: none

THE SKY AT NIGHT

... THE SKY AT NIGHT top end of the telescope, where the eyepiece was mounted. Reassuringly, Romney Robinson recorded that “though it is rather startling to a person who finds himself suspended over a chasm 60 feet deep, without more than a speculative a ...

Published: Sunday 01 December 1974
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1280 | Page: 101 | Tags: none

THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE

... THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE / / / that it was clear from the outset that the two stars were entirely different. Mira is an intrinsic variable, swelling and shrinking, so that its output of light changes; it reaches maximum once every 11 months and ...

Published: Sunday 01 June 1975
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1242 | Page: 87 | Tags: none

THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE

... THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE (By 7 X 501 mean that the binoculars magnify seven times; the main lens of each component telescope has diameter of 50 millimetres.) Look at the Moon with binoculars of this kind, and you will see the broad, waterless plains ...

Published: Friday 01 November 1974
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 602 | Page: 108 | Tags: none

THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE

... THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE The space between the stars One of the most beautiful features of the night sky is the Milky Way. It stretches across the heavens as a luminous band, and there are many legends attached to it. Even modest optical aid is ...

Published: Sunday 01 July 1979
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1453 | Page: 62 | Tags: none

THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE

... THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOORE Astronomy with binoculars Over the past 20 years —in fact, ever since I have been presenting monthly television programmes—l have received hundreds of letters asking one simple question: “Where can one buy a good, cheap ...

Published: Monday 01 May 1978
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1941 | Page: 56 | Tags: none