| Authors: |
Teaching Company.
Filippenko, Alexei V.
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| Material type: |
DVD-Video |
| Subject: |
Astronomy.
Cosmology.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., c2011. |
| Description: |
3 videodiscs (ca. 540 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 172 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.) |
| ISBN: |
1598037943 9781598037944 |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliography references (p.165-172) in course guidebook. |
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Course no. 1852. |
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The length of each of the twelve lectures is: ca. 45 min. |
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Lecture notes and program information are included in course guidebook. |
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Lecturer: Professor Alex Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley. |
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DVD. |
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In English. |
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Editor, John McNeill. |
| Contents: |
Disc 1. Day and night skies across all distances ; The blue sky, clouds, and lightning ; The rainbow family: sunlight and water ; Solar halos: sunlight and ice crystals -- Disc 2. The colors of sunrise and sunset ; Bright stars, constellations, and the zodiac ; Viewing the planets and their motions ; The 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. |
| Series: |
Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics
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| Summary: |
The twelve lectures of this course are about looking at the sky and objects or phenomena in it during the day and night, over small and large distances from Earth. In these lectures explore various topics related to astronomy including, rainbows and coronas, solar and lunar halos, sunspots and prominences, star patterns, the planets, the Moon and lunar phases, and solar and lunar eclipses. |