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The Aurora Paperback - 2007
by Bone, Neil,
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- Title The Aurora
- Author Bone, Neil,
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Condition New
- Pages 183
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer, New York, NY
- Publication date 2007-06-05
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4974099-n
- ISBN 9780387360522 / 0387360522
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9.18 x 6.24 x 0.49 in (23.32 x 15.85 x 1.24 cm)
- Category Science
- Library of Congress subjects Auroras, Auroras - Observations
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006940469
- Dewey Decimal Code 538.768
- Quantity available 5
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From the rear cover
The uniquely beautiful light display of an aurora is the result of charged particles colliding with tenuous atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen, more than 60 miles above the Earth, when the magnetosphere is disturbed by changes in the solar wind.
Often - and incorrectly - regarded as being confined to high northern and southern latitudes, major auroral displays are visible from even the southern USA and the south of England, and occur perhaps twenty times in each eleven-year sunspot cycle.
Major auroral storms always cause great interest and excitement in the media, and of course provide practical astronomers with the opportunity to study and image them.
This book describes the aurora from the amateur observational viewpoint, discusses professional studies of auroral and geomagnetic phenomena to put amateur work in context, and explains how practical observers can go about observing and recording auroral displays.
