The Star Atlas Companion: What You Need to Know about the Constellations

by Philip M. Bagnall

Conventional star atlases are great for locating constellations and individual stars but The Star Atlas Companion goes one step further and describes the physical properties of more than 1,100 stars. With the aid of scale diagrams, the reader can get a real sense of the sizes, shapes, distances, and surface features of many of the stars visible to the naked eye in both the Nothern and Southern Hemispheres. Information on their rotational velocities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461408296
• ISBN13: 9781461408291
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 2.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"