Night Has A Thousand Eyes

by Arthur Upgren

Overview

Do you sometimes wonder why the sky at dusk is filled with color, or how the moon controls the tides? Why do stars twinkle and planets don't? Filled with science and lore, with references to myths, legends, and "high" and popular culture, this "naked-eye" guide (no telescope required) demystifies the celestial in accessible, instructive, and entertaining prose.Upgren tells us why werewolves only come out at night and how to find Betelgeuse. He discusses twilight, the seasons and their causes, our solar system, light and darkness, weather, stars and latitude, the moon, light pollution, and the planets. Night Has a Thousand Eyes is the perfect resource for amateur astronomers and meteorologists of all ages who pause to enjoy sunsets and identify constellations on a starry night.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738203225
Publisher:	Basic Books
Publication date:	07/06/2000
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1280L (what's this?)

About the Author

Arthur Upgren is Professor of Astronomy at Wesleyan University and has been director of its Van Vleck Observatory. He is the author of Night Has a Thousand Eyes: A Naked-Eye Guide to the Sky, Its Science, and Lore.Jurgen Stock has been on the faculty of Hamburg and Case-Western Reserve Universities. He has also been director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory at La Serena, Chile, as well as founding director of CIDA, the Venezuelan National Observatory at Mérida.

Editorial Reviews

Erudite, entertaining, and educational, this is an excellent introduction to astronomy at its most basic level, that of simple stargazing. Upgren (astronomy, Yale, Wesleyan) enriches his discussion of constellations with reference to myths, historical stories, and works of art and literature related to them. Individual chapters cover the arrangement of the stars in each of the four seasons, as well as the moon and the planets. Additional chapters discuss such topics as astrology; the possibility of extraterrestrial life; and Stonehenge and a tower in Newport, Rhode Island, possibly built by early Viking explorers as a similar astronomical tool. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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