Occultations of Bright Stars by the MoonĢ2. Curious and Interesting Facts About Lunar EclipsesĢ0. Nearly-Zenithal Central Solar Eclipsesġ6. Total and Annular Solar Eclipses in Close Succession at a Given Placeġ5. The Frequency of Total and Annular Solar Eclipses for a Given Placeġ4. When is the Northern Limit the Southern One?ġ3. Regions of Visibility of Solar Eclipsesġ2. Curious and Interesting Facts About Solar Eclipsesġ1. What is the Mean Value of the Earth-Moon Distance?ġ0. The Distribution of the Moon's Perigee and Apogree DistancesĤ. The Extreme Values of the Distance of the Moon to the Earthģ. The following is the table of contents for the book:Ģ. You can tell that the author has a real love of his subject matter. ![]() Don't get me wrong, there are precise algorithmic steps given here, there is just more conversation along the way. It might be retitled "Odd occurrences in Astronomy and the Mathematics Behind Them". This book takes a more conversational approach than that book, since the events being described are rare. ![]() The author's book Astronomical Algorithms is all about the precise steps you take to perform certain calculations in astronomy that are rather common with little explanation on how the results were formulated.
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