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The Sky at Night

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Table of Contents

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Eye on the Universe
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    Chapter 2 The Turbulent Sun
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    Chapter 3 Comet Crash
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    Chapter 4 The Search for Life Elsewhere
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    Chapter 5 Mapping the Sky
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    Chapter 6 News from the Planets
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    Chapter 7 Spanish Ring
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    Chapter 8 The Sizes of the Stars
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    Chapter 9 The Edge of the Solar System
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    Chapter 10 The Telescopes of Mauna Kea
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    Chapter 11 Turkish Delight
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    Chapter 12 Ringed World
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    Chapter 13 Matter We Cannot See
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    Chapter 14 Gamma-Ray Bursters
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    Chapter 15 Wandering Giants
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    Chapter 16 The Problem of Pluto
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    Chapter 17 Non-identical Twins
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    Chapter 18 The Sounds of the Stars
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    Chapter 19 Space-Man
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    Chapter 20 Exploring Mars
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    Chapter 21 The Lakes of Titan
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    Chapter 22 Fiftieth Anniversary
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    Chapter 23 SuperWASP
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    Chapter 24 Scorpion in the Sky
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    Chapter 25 The August Perseids
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    Chapter 26 Black Holes: And Black Magic
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    Chapter 27 Jodrell Bank: Fiftieth Anniversary
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    Chapter 28 The Grand Collision
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    Chapter 29 Holmes’ Comet
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    Chapter 30 Cosmic Debris
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    Chapter 31 Nearest Star
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    Chapter 32 The Flight of the Phoenix
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    Chapter 33 Devil’s Advocate
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    Chapter 34 Galaxy Zoo
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    Chapter 35 Four Hundred Years of the Telescope
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    Chapter 36 The Merry Dancers
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    Chapter 37 The Fountains of Enceladus
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    Chapter 38 The Herschel Telescope
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    Chapter 39 Onward to the Moon
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    Chapter 40 Forty Years on
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    Chapter 41 Impact!
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    Chapter 42 Life?
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    Chapter 43 Erratum
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (72nd percentile)

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Title
The Sky at Night
Published by
ADS, November 2010
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-6409-0
ISBNs
978-1-4419-6409-0, 978-1-4419-6408-3
Authors

Moore, Patrick, Patrick Moore

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 27 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 11%
Student > Postgraduate 2 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 4%
Unknown 21 78%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 2 7%
Arts and Humanities 1 4%
Physics and Astronomy 1 4%
Social Sciences 1 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 21 78%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 November 2021.
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#6,479,939
of 22,981,247 outputs
Outputs from ADS
#8,100
of 37,421 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#31,693
of 100,860 outputs
Outputs of similar age from ADS
#84
of 348 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 37,421 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% of its peers.
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