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  2. Teach Yourself - Wikipedia

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    Teach Yourself About the Greeks by J. C. Stobart, was abridged from his full length work The Glory that was Greece (1911). Teach Yourself Amateur Acting by John Bourne, said to have been read by Michael Caine at the start of his career. [8] Teach Yourself Arabic, first published in 1943, was written by Arthur Stanley Tritton.

  3. Gravitational microlensing - Wikipedia

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    The mathematics of microlensing, along with modern notation, are described by Gould [40] and we use his notation in this section, though other authors have used other notation. The Einstein radius , also called the Einstein angle, is the angular radius of the Einstein ring in the event of perfect alignment.

  4. List of mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    To remember the order of taxa in biology (Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, [Variety]): "Dear King Philip Came Over For Good Soup" is often cited as a non-vulgar method for teaching students to memorize the taxonomic classification of system.

  5. Astrophotography - Wikipedia

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    Astrophotography, also known as astronomical imaging, is the photography or imaging of astronomical objects, celestial events, or areas of the night sky. The first photograph of an astronomical object (the Moon ) was taken in 1839 [ 1 ] , but it was not until the late 19th century that advances in technology allowed for detailed stellar ...

  6. Bortle scale - Wikipedia

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    3 Rural sky 6.6–7.0 21.3–21.6 the zodiacal light is striking in spring and autumn, and color is still visible; some light pollution evident at the horizon; clouds are illuminated near the horizon, dark overhead; nearer surroundings are vaguely visible; the summer Milky Way still appears complex; M15, M4, M5, and M22 are naked-eye objects

  7. Photometry (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    [3] Photometry is also used in the observation of variable stars , [ 4 ] by various techniques such as, differential photometry that simultaneously measures the brightness of a target object and nearby stars in the starfield [ 5 ] or relative photometry by comparing the brightness of the target object to stars with known fixed magnitudes. [ 6 ]

  8. Category:Astrophotography - Wikipedia

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    Astrophotography cameras (3 P) Pages in category "Astrophotography" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent ...

  9. Air mass (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    The angle of a celestial body with the zenith is the zenith angle (in astronomy, commonly referred to as the zenith distance).A body's angular position can also be given in terms of altitude, the angle above the geometric horizon; the altitude and the zenith angle are thus related by =.