Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Our night sky / the Teaching Company ; Jupiterimages Corporation ; producer, Zachary H. Rhoades ; academic content supervisor, Jay Tate.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

2 videodiscs (386 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 85 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

Summary:

Presents 12 lectures by Edward M. Murphy on astronomy. You'll learn how to use a star map and how to read coordinates to locate planets, constellations and other objects in the night sky.

Target Audience Note:

College students and adults.

Series:

The great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Astronomy

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Astronomy.

Subjects:

Astronomy.

Genre:

Filmed lectures.

Educational films.

Instructional films.

Documentary films.

Science films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Murphy, Edward M. (Edward Michael), teacher.

Rhoades, Zachary, film producer.

Tate, Jay.

Jupiterimages Corporation.

Teaching Company.

Notes:

Course no. 1846.

Lectures produced in 2007.

Guidebook includes bibliography (pages 76-85).

For home use or face-to-face teaching.

Editor, Dan Shine.

Lecturer, Edward M. Murphy, Ph. D., University of Virginia.

DVD, NTSC.

Contents:

Disc 1. The constellations and their stars (33 min.) -- Seeing and navigating the sky (34 min.) -- Using binoculars and backyard telescopes (30 min.) -- Observing the moon and the sun (33 min.) -- Observing the planets with a telescope (34 min.) -- Meteor showers, comets, eclipses, and more (33 min.).

Disc 2. The northern sky and the north celestial pole (32 min.) -- The fall sky (31 min.) -- The winter sky (32 min.) -- The spring sky (31 min.) -- The summer sky (31 min.) -- The southern sky and the milky way (32 min.).

ISBN:

9781598036671

9780961320751

0961320753

159803667X

Publisher Number:

1846

ID1846A-01

PD1846A

PB1846A

Other Number:

647366951

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

656906

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

GREAT DVD 520 Our nigh