Book A Ras de Cielo

Book A Ras de Cielo.

get up off the couch and go outdoors to contemplate the sky!

The embryo from which this book was born was a series of articles published in the magazine Tribuna de Astronomía in the 1990s. This material, restructured and enriched, led to a first edition of the work in 1998 and a second, revised and expanded edition in 2008. The passage of time and the comments of the reading public allow this new, much improved edition to appear today, with which the author fulfills an aspiration since he first conceived it: its illustrated character, in full color, with photographs of the highest quality, provided by one of the best astrophotographers in the world, Juan Carlos Casado. The treatment of such visual scientific issues as those included in this book is greatly improved by presenting, together with the explanations, some of the best available photographic images of these phenomena, many of which have been recognized by NASA as Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD). Hopefully these pages will serve to move those who read them to get up from their seats and go outdoors to look at the sky.

About the author:

David Galadí-Enríquez (Córdoba, Spain, 1969) is an amateur astronomer and active observer of the firmament from a very young age. He studied physics at the Universities of Granada and Barcelona, where he received his PhD in astrophysics in 1998. He has worked as a high school teacher, university professor at the University of Barcelona, and researcher at the Astrobiology Center (CSIC-INTA) and the Astrophysics Institute of Andalusia (CSIC). He worked until 2014 as technical astronomer and head of communication at the German-Spanish Astronomical Center (Calar Alto Observatory, CAHA) where he continues as Resident Astronomer. He has published numerous books, among others Fundamental Astronomy ( 2005), with Enric Marco Soler, Secrets of the Universe (2009), Curious Questions of Astronomy. Resueltas por el Perito en Lunas (2014). David Galadí-Enríquez has become a reference name in the field of science popularization for his works and for the wide range of topics he deals with in a way that is accessible to all readers.

Contents of the work:

• • • • • Prologue
        • Presentation
        • Part One: Atmosphere and near space
          • 1 Blue velvet
          • 2 The hour of the satellites
          • 3 The air mirror
          • 4 Chalk of snow
          • 5 The stars tremble
          • 6 Northern Lights
        • Part Two: The Moon and the Solar System
          • 7 The lunar illusion
          • 8 The January Moon
          • 9 The Moon and the Tides
          • 10 The darkening of limbo
          • 11 Captured Rotation
          • 12 Blood Moon
          • 13 Day became night
        • Part Three: The starry sky
          • 14 Sancho and the Horn
          • 15 Green stars
          • 16 The time machine
          • 17 Black velvet
          • 18 Recovering the sky
          • Appendix I: The stellar magnitude system
          • Appendix II: About the photographs
          • Annotated bibliography

Technical data sheet:

• • • • • Language: Spanish
        • EAN: 9788446045953
        • ISBN: 978-84-460-4595-3
        • Publication date: 30-04-2018
        • Pages: 224
        • Illustrations: 104
        • Width: 21,5 cm
        • Height: 27,5 cm
        • Edition: 1