TTC Video - Our Night Sky With Edward M. Murphy

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TTC Video - Our Night Sky With Edward M. Murphy

Course No. 1846 | .MKV, x264, 784 kbps, 960x720 | English, AAC, 2 Ch | 12x30 mins | + PDF Guidebook | 2.51 GB

Lecturer: Professor Edward M. Murphy Ph.D.

 

For thousands of years, the star-filled sky has been a source of wonder, discovery, entertainment, and instruction. Ancient people from nearly every continent and culture wove exciting stories about the mythological figures they saw in the heavens. People also used the sun, moon, and stars for time-keeping and navigation. And careful observers throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and elsewhere kept precise astronomical records, eventually paving the way for the Scientific Revolution and its remarkable discoveries about the nature of the universe.

 

Even today, watching the sky has not lost its fascination. Equipped only with a pair of eyes or, at most, binoculars and a small telescope, you can behold marvels such as these:

 

The jewel-like star cluster called the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus, easily visible with the naked eye and even more magnificent through a pair of binoculars

The broad band of the Milky Way arching across the summer sky; the band is the plane of our galaxy seen edge-on from the inside

The Perseid meteor shower, a celestial display that peaks in mid-August of every year when Earth passes through debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle

The cratered face of the moon, stark evidence of the violent era after the birth of the solar system-a record almost completely erased from Earth due to weathering

The four Galilean moons of Jupiter, named after Galileo, whose discovery of them in 1610 helped overthrow the geocentric model of the universe

A total solar eclipse, an awe-inspiring spectacle that occurs somewhere on Earth roughly every 18 months and is well worth traveling thousands of miles to see

 

Course Lecture Titles

01. Constellations and Their Stars

02. Seeing and Navigating the Sky

03. Using Binoculars and Backyard Telescopes

04. Observing the Moon and the Sun

05. Observing the Planets with a Telescope

06. Meteor Showers, Comets, Eclipses, and More

07. Northern Sky and the North Celestial Pole

08. Fall Sky

09. Winter Sky

10. Spring Sky

11. Summer Sky

12. Southern Sky and the Milky Way

 

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