Coeli Astrogloss - Contents


Aberration, optical
Aberration, stellar
Absolute luminosity
Absolute magnitude
Absorption line
Absorption nebula
Absorption spectrum
Achernar
Accretion
Adhara
Adonis
Adrastea
Aeon
Airy disc
Alamak
Albedo
Albireo
Alcyone
Aldebaran
Algol
Allende meteorite
All-sky camera
Almach
Almagest
Almanac
Alpha
alpha particle
Alpha centauri
Alpheratz
Altair
Alt-azimuth mounting
Altitude
Amalthea
Amor group
Andromeda
Andromeda galaxy
Andromedids
Angle
Angstrom
Angular acceleration
Angular diameter
Angular distance
Angular momentum
Angular resolution
Angular velocity
Annual parallax
Annular eclipse
Anomaly
Antares
Anthropic principle
Antimatter
Antlia
Antoniadi scale
Aperture optical
Apex
Apex solar
Aphelion
Aphrodite terra
Apollo group
Apollo program
Apparent
Apparent luminosity
Apparent magnitude
Apparent noon
Apparent solar time
Apus
Aquarids
Aquarius
Aquila
Ara
Arc
Arc minute
Arc second
Archaeoastronomy
Arcturus
Argo
Ariel
Aries
Aristarchus
Aristotle
Arsia mons
Ascending node
Ascraeus mons
Ashen light
Aspect
Association
Asterism
Asteroid
Asteroid belt
Asteroid number
Astrology
Astrometry
Astronautics
Astronomer
Astronomical catalogue
Astronomical distance
Astronomical twilight
Astronomical unit
Astronomy
Astrophotography
Atlas
Atmosphere
Atmospheric refraction
Atom
Atomic clock
Auriga
Aurora
Aurora borealis
Autumnal equinox
Axial period
Axis
Azimuth
B stars
Band spectrum
Bar
Barium star
Barlow lens
Barnards star
Barred spiral galaxy
Barycentre
Barycentric coordinates
Baryons
Basalt
Baseline
Bayer johann 1572-1625
Bayer letters
Bedrock
Beehive
Belinda uranus satellite
Bennetts comet
Beta
Beta lyrae stars
Beta particle
Beta pictoris
Beta regio
Betelgeuse alpha orionis
Bianca uranus satellite
Big bang
Big crunch
Big dipper
Binary stars
Binoculars
Bipolar nebula
Bl lacertae objects
Black body
Black drop
Black dwarf
Black hole
Blackbody temperature
Blackeye galaxy
Blaze star
Blink comparator
Blink microscope
Blue snowball
Blue straggler
Blueshift
Bodes law
Bolide
Bootes
Boss general catalogue
Brahe tycho 1546-1601
Bright star catalogue
Brown dwarf
Bubble nebula
Bug nebula
Burst
Burster
Bw stars
Byte
Caelum
Caldera
Calendar
California nebula
Callisto
Caltech
Calypso
Camelopardalis
Canals
Cancer
Canes venatici
Canis major/canis minor
Canopus
Cape canaveral
Cape photographic durchmusterung
Capella
Capricornids
Capricornus
Captured atmosphere
Captured rotation
Carbon cycle
Carbon star
Cardinal points
Carina
Carme
Carpathians
Cartwheel galaxy
Cassegrain focus
Cassegrain telescope
Cassini
Cassini division
Cassini, family
Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia a
Castor
Catadioptric
Caucasus mountains
Ccd
Cd galaxy
Celestial axis
Celestial coordinates
Celestial equator
Celestial mechanics
Celestial poles
Celestial sphere
Celsius anders
Centaurus
Centaurus a
Centre of mass
Centrifugal force
Centripetal force
Cepheids
Cepheus
Ceres
Cetus
Ch stars
Chamaeleon
Chandler wobble
Charge-coupled device
Charon
Chiron
Chondrite
Chromosphere
Chryse planitia
Circinus
Circular motion
Circumpolar star
Circumstellar matter
Cirrus nebula
Civil time
Civil twilight
Clavius
Cluster
Cluster, globular
Clusters of galaxies
Coalsack nebula
Cobe
Cocoon nebula
Coelostat
Collimation
Colour index
Colour-magnitude diagram
Columba
Colure
Coma berenices
Coma cluster
Comet
Comet shoemaker-levy/9
Comet swift-tuttle
Cometary nebula
Conic section
Conjunction
Constellation
Continuous spectrum
Coordinate systems
Coordinated universal time
Copernican system
Copernicus nicolaus
Cor caroli
Cordelia
Coriolis effect
Corona
Corona australids
Corona australis
Corona borealis
Corvus
Cosmic radiation
Cosmic rays
Cosmic year
Cosmogony
Cosmology
Cosmos
Crab nebula
Crater
Crepe ring
Crescent
Cressida
Crux
C-type asteroids
Culmination
Cygnus
Cygnus a
D region
Dark adaptation
Dark halo
Dark matter
Dark nebula
Dawes limit
Day
Day solar
Daylight saving time
Daylight stream
Dec
Declination
Declination axis
Declination circle
Deep-sky object
Degenerate matter
Degenerate star
Deimos
Delphinus
Delta
Deneb
Denebola
Density
Descending node
Desdemona
Despina
Dew-cap
Diamond ring effect
Diffraction
Diffuse cloud
Diffuse interstellar bands
Diffuse nebula
Dione
Dioptric system
Direct
Disc galaxy
Disk
Dispersion
Distance astronomical
Distance modulus
Diurnal
Diurnal motion
Dobsonian
Donatis comet
Doppler effect
Doppler shift
Dorado
Double galaxy
Double star
Draco
Draconic month
Draper classification
Driving clock
Dumbbell nebula
Dwarf galaxy
Dwarf nova
Dwarf planets
Dwarf star
Dynamical parallax
Eagle nebula
Early-type galaxies
Early-type stars
Earth
Earth geomagnetic field
Earth gravitational field
Earth grazers
Eccentric
Eccentricity
Eclipse
Eclipse year
Eclipsing binary
Ecliptic
Ecosphere
Einstein albert
Ejecta
Elara
Electroglow
Electromagnetic phenomena
Electromagnetic radiation
Electron
Electron density
Element
Ellipse
Ellipsoid
Elnath
Elongation
Emission line
Emission nebula
Enceladus
Encke division
Enckes comet
Entropy
Ephemeris
Ephemeris time
Epimetheus
Epoch
Epsilon
Epsilon aurigae
Epsilon ring
Equator
Equatorial coordinates
Equinox
Equinox autumnal
Equinox vernal
Equuleus
Eridanus
Eros
Escape velocity
Eta carinae
Eta carinae nebula
E-type asteroid
Europa
European Space Agency (ESA)
Evection
Evening star
Event horizon
Exit pupil
Exobiology
Exosphere
Exponental notation
Extinction
Extragalactic
Extragalactic systems
Extraterrestrial life
Eyepiece
F stars
Facula
Falling star
False-colour imagery
Field galaxy
Field of view
Finderscope
Fireball
First point of aries
First point of libra
First quarter
Fissure
Fixed stars
Flamsteed john
Flamsteed number
Flare solar
Flare star
Focal point
Fomalhaut
Fornax
Fornax system
Fossa
Foucault pendulum
Fraunhofer lines
Frequency
Fusion
Gaia hypothesis
Galactic centre
Galactic equator
Galactic poles
Galatea
Galaxy
Galaxy classification
Galilean moons
Galilean telescope
Galileo galilei
Galileo mission
Gamma
Ganymede
Garben
Garnet star
Gas giants
Gaspra
Gauss
Gegenschein
Gemini
Geminids
Geostationary
Geosynchronous
Geosynchronous orbit
Giant
Gibbous
Giotto
Globe
Globule
Goddard space flight center
Graffias
Granulation, solar
Gravitation
Gravitational collapse
Gravitational lensing
Gravity
Great circle
Great red spot
Green flash
Greenhouse effect
Greenwich mean time
Gregorian reflector
Grus
H.i and h.ii regions
Hadar
Halleys comet
Halo
Hamal
Harvard classification of stars
Harvest moon
Helene
Heliacal rising
Heliocentric world system
Heliostat
Helium
Hellas basin
Hemisphere
Henry draper catalogue
Hercules
Hermes
Herschel sir william
Hertzsprung-russell diagram
Hesperus
Hidalgo
Hilda asteroids
Hipparcos
Hirayama family
Hoba meteorite
Horizon
Horizon 2000
Horologium
Horsehead nebula
Hour
Hour angle
Hour circle
H-r diagram
Hst
Hubble space telescope
Hungaria group
Huygens christiaan
Hyades
Hydra
Hydrosphere
Hydrus
Hyperbola
Hyperbolic orbit
Hypergalaxies
Hyperion
Iapetus
Iau
Icarus -1566
Ice
Igneous
Inclination
Index catalogue
Indus
Inferior conjunction
Infrared astronomy
Infrared cirrus
Infrared space observatory
Inner planets
Integral
Interferometer
Interlunar
International astronomical union
International atomic time
Interplanetary magnetic field
Interplanetary medium
Interstellar matter
Inverse square law
Io
Ion
Ionosphere
Iras
Irregular galaxy
Irregular variable
Izar: Epsilon Bootis
Janus
Jet propulsion laboratory
Jet stream
Joule
Jovian
Jpl
Julian calendar
Julian date
Julian day
Juliet
Jupiter
Jupiter's rings
Jupiter's satellites
Kapteyns star
Keck observatory
Kelvin temperature scale
Kennedy space center
Kepler johannes
Keplers laws
Keyhole nebula
Kilogram
Kilometre
Kiloparsec
Kuiper belt
Lacerta
Larissa
Latitude
Lava
Laws of motion
Leda
Leo
Leo minor
Leonids
Lepus
Libra
Libration
Light
Light second
Light year
Limb
Limiting magnitude
Little dipper
Local group of galaxies
Local supercluster
Local time
Longitude
Luminosity
Lunar
Lunar day
Lunation
Lupus
Lynx
Lyra
Lysithea
Magellan
Magellanic clouds
Magma
Magnetic star
Magnetosphere
Magnetotail
Magnitude
Main sequence
Main-sequence star
Major axis
Major planet
Mantle
Mare
Mariner
Mars
Mars, spacecraft
Mass
Mass transfer
Mass-luminosity relation
Matter
Menkar
Mensa
Mercury
Meridians
Mesa
Mesosphere
Messier catalogue
Meteor shower
Meteor storm
Meteor stream
Meteorite
Meteorite craters
Meteoroid
Meteors
Metis
Microscopium
Milky way
Millibar
Mimas
Minor axis
Minor planet
Mir
Mira
Mira variable stars
Mirak
Miranda
Mirfak
Mirror
Mizar
Molecular clouds
Momentum
Monoceros
Mons
Moon
Morning star
Mounting
M-type asteroids
Multiple star system
Musca australis
Nadir
Naiad
Naked-eye object
Nasa
Nearside
Nebula
Nemesis theory
Neptune
Neptunes satellites
Nereid
Neutrino
Neutron
Neutron star
New general catalogue
New moon
Newton
Newton, Sir Isaac
Newtonian telescope
Ngc
Nodes
Norma
North polar distance
North star
Northern cross
Northern lights
Nova
Nuclear fusion
Nutation
Oberon
Object glass
Objective prism
Obliquity
Observatory
Occultation
Octans
Olbers paradox
Old
Oljato - 2201
Oort cloud
Open cluster
Ophelia
Ophiuchus
Opposition
Optics
Orbit
Orion
Orion nebula
Orrery
Ozone
Ozone layer
Pallas
Pan
Pandora
Parabola
Paris observatory
Parallax
Parsec
Pasiphae
Patera
Pavo
Peculiar stars
Pegasus
Penumbra
Periapsis
Periastron
Pericentre
Perigee
Perihelion
Periodic comet
Period-luminosity relation
Perseus
Perturb
Perturbation
Phaethon
Phase angle
Pherkad
Phobos
Phoebe
Phoenix
Photometer
Photometry
Photon
Photosphere
Pictor
Pisces
Piscis australis
Planet
Planet x
Planetarium
Planetary nebula
Planisphere
Planitia
Plasketts star
Plasma
Pleiades
Pleione
Pluto
Polaris
Polarisation
Polarised light
Pole star
Pollux
Porrima
Portia
Praesepe
Precambrian
Precession
Precession of the equinoxes
Pre-imbrian period
Prime meridian
Principia
Prism
Procyon
Prometheus
Prominence
Proper motion
Proteus
Proton
Proton-proton reaction
Protoplanet
Protostar
Proxima centauri
Ptolemaic system
Ptolemy
Puck
Pulsars
Pulsating stars
Puppis
Pyxis
Quadrant
Quadrature
Quantum mechanics
Quark
Quasar
Quasi-stellar objects
Quiet sun
Ra
Radar astronomy
Radiant
Radio astronomy
Radio emission
Radio galaxies
Radio source
Radio telescope
Recurrent nova
Red dwarf
Red giant
Red spot
Red shift
Reflection nebula
Refraction
Regio
Regolith
Regulus
Relativity
Resolution
Resonance
Retardation
Reticulum
Retrograde
Rgo
Rhea
Rift
Rift valley
Rigel
Right ascension
Roche lobe
Rosalind
Royal greenwich observatory
Sagan
Sagitta
Sagittarius
Sagittarius a
Satellite, artificial
Satellite, natural
Saturn
Saturn's rings
Saturn's satellites
Schmidt camera
Schmidt telescope
Scorpius
Sculptor
Scutum
Seeing
Selenography
Semimajor axis
Semiregular variable stars
Serpens
Seti
Setting circles
Seven sisters
Sextans
Sextant
Seyfert galaxies
Sheliak
Shepherd
Shield volcano
Shooting star
Sickle
Sidereal
Sidereal day
Sidereal month
Sidereal period
Sidereal time
Sigma octantis
Sirius
Solar apex
Solar cycle
Solar day
Solar maximum
Solar minimum
Solar radiation
Solar system
Solar time
Solar wind
Solstice
Space
Space age
Space exploration
Speckle interferometry
Spectral class
Spectral line
Spectrograph
Spectroscope
Spectroscopic binary
Spectroscopy
Spectrum
Speculum
Spheroid
Spica
Star
Star atlas
Starburst galaxy
Starspots
Steady-state theory
Stellar classification
Stellar evolution
Stellar nomenclature
Stellar parallax
Stellar population
Stellar spectrum
Su ursae majoris stars
Subgiant
Sun
Sundial
Sunspots
Supercluster
Supergiant
Superior planets
Supernova
Synchronous rotation
T tauri stars
Taurus
Telescope
Telescopium
Telesto
Terminator
Terra
Terrestrial coordinates
Terrestrial planets
Tethys
Thalassa
Thebe
Theodolite
Thuban
Tidal force
Tides
Time
Time zone
Titan
Titania
Titius-bode law
Transit
Transit circle
Triangulum
Triangulum australe
Triangulum galaxy
Triton
Trojans
Tropical month
Tropical year
Troposphere
Tucana
Twilight
U geminorum stars
Ultraviolet astronomy
Ulysses
Umbra
Umbriel
Undae
Universal time
Universe
Uranus
Uranus' rings
Uranus' satellites
Ursa major
Ursa minor
Vail nebula
Van allen belts
Variable star
Vega
Vela
Venera
Vent
Venus
Vernal equinox
Very large array
Vesta
Viking
Virgo
Virgo cluster of galaxies
Visual binary
Visual magnitude
Volans
Voyager
Vulpecula
Vulpecula
W ursae majoris stars
W virginis stars
Waning
Waxing
Wedge
White dwarf
White hole
Wolf-rayet stars
Xi bootis
Xi scorpii
X-ray
X-ray astronomy
X-ray binary
Young
Z camelopardalis stars
Zenith
Zenith distance
Zenith tube
Zenithal hourly rate
Zodiac
Zodiacal light

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