• Title: Complete Idiot's Guide to the Sun
• Author(s) Jay M. Pasachoff
• Publisher: Alpha (August 5, 2003)
• Paperback: 368 pages
• eBook: PDF and PDF Files
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592570747
• ISBN-13: 978-1592570744
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Book Description

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.

• 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 College and the Director of Hopkins Observatory.

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