Solar science : exploring sunspots, seasons, eclipses, and more /
Dennis Schatz, Andrew Fraknoi.
- Virginia: NSTA Press, c2016.
- xxi, 353 pages : illustrations (mostly color), colored maps ; 28 cm + Observer's guide (15 pages : color illustrations, colored maps ; 26 cm) + 1 pair of eclipse shades
Includes index.
Understanding and tracking the daily motion of the sun -- Understanding and tracking the annual motion of the sun -- Solar activity and space weather -- The sun, the moon, the earth together: phases, eclipses, and more.
"Solar Science offers more than three dozen hands-on, inquiry-based activities on many fascinating aspects of solar astronomy. The activities cover the Sun's motions, the space weather it causes, the measures of time and seasons in our daily lives, and much more."--