Seeing the Solar System

FRED SCHAAF wrote the monthly "Eye on the Sky" column for Astronomy magazine for five years. He is contributing editor and astronomy essayist for The Old Farmer's Almancac, has written a regular astronomy newspaper column for the past 15 years, has had articles in Sky and Telescope, Highlights for Children, and Omni, and is an astronomy consultant to Time-Life Books. Previous books by Mr. Schaaf include the popular The Starry Room and Seeing the Sky.

Partial table of contents: MOON, SUN, AND ECLIPSES. Tour of the Moon--Evening Crescent to First Quarter. Tour of the Moon--Twelve-Day-Old, Full, After Full. Lunar Maria. Lunar Transient Phenomena (LTP). Lunar Occultations. General Observations of the Sun. Sunspot Counts. Observations of Total Solar Eclipses. Enlargement of Earth's Shadow at Lunar Eclipses. PLANETS. Apparitions of Jupiter. The Great Red Spot. Eclipse Phenomena of the Galilean Satellites. Apparitions of Venus--Part 2. Cloud Features of Venus. Special Observations of Crescent Venus. Cloud Features of Saturn. Saturn's Rings Near Edgewise--Part 1. The Satellites of Saturn. The Different Kinds of Apparitions of Mars. The Light and the Topographic Surface Features of Mars. Atmospheric Phenomena of Mars. Surface Features of Mercury. Neptune and Triton. COMETS, ASTEROIDS, AND METEORS. General Observations of Comets. The Brightness of Comets. The Asteroids. Appendices. Glossary. Sources of Information. General Index. Crater Index.