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An enchanting tour of the stars, the planets, and the sky at night.. Do you sometimes wonder why the sky at dusk is filled with color, or how the moon controls the tides? Why do stars twinkle and planets don't? Filled with science and lore, with references to myths, legends, and "high" and popular culture, this "naked-eye" guide (no telescope required) demystifies the celestial in accessible, instructive, and entertaining prose.Upgren tells us why werewolves only come out at night and how to find Betelgeuse. He discusses twilight, the seasons and their causes, our solar system, light and darkness, weather, stars and latitude, the moon, light pollution, and the planets. Night Has a Thousand Eyes is the perfect resource for amateur astronomers and meteorologists of all ages who pause to enjoy sunsets and identify constellations on a starry night.
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On a clear night, away from the lights and haze of city and suburbs, there seems to be no end of stars. Read the first page
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Reading this book is like attending a lecture by a very knowledgeable speaker. He goes down fascinating byways which complement the main thrust of his discourse. In this way, Upgren shows that astronomy is an integral part of human culture.
His explanations are written in clear, easy to understand language. For example, this book has one of the best descriptive accounts of the relationship between stellar temperature, size, colour and brightness that I have seen.
I do have some niggles. For example, Upgren's staement that mag 9.5 is "too faint even to be seen with binoculars", will raise some eyebrows, but I suggest that given the quality of the rest of the book, such errors can be forgiven, especially from one who is primarily a naked-eye observer writing a naked-eye book.
An excellent read!
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Star gazing the warm way!
4 April 2000
Format:Hardcover
An end to the lonely ameteur astronomer on the top of a hill with only a thermos and a telescope for company, The night has a thousand eyes... is a brilliant source of not only cold faced fact but eye popping stories and history. It is hard not to be impressed by the light from a star seventy billion years old, and this book keeps you enthralled. I have just finished reading it and I want to read it again. You don't need a degree in astronomy to appreciate this book, nor is it 'dumbed down'for popularity. The only problem, and its a small one, is the book's tendency to wander into territory not enirely connected with the subject. On the whole, though, it beats the thermos any day.
2 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Fairly informative and useful
8 Jan 2002
Format:Paperback
This is a pretty good book for astronomy buffs, etc. There was one paragraph, though, where the author falls into bad science.
Buying into the religion hates science paradigm, the author makes sure the reader knows that no one "held Copernicus and his theory [heliocentrisim] in lower esteem" than Martin Luther. The author claims this theory was a competing worldview on "somewhat equal ground" to Christianity. He goes on to say one [science] is based on "testing and questioning" while the other [Christianity] is based on "blind faith."
It is obvious, the author, Arthur Upgreen, has never studied the science versus religion debate closely. If he had, he would have never made such claims right after quoting the
works of Christians like Kepler, Galileo and Copernicus. Nor does he detail the errors that led to the geocentrisim interpretation/theory to begin with. Nor the fact that
Christianity has never been based upon "blind faith."
If geocentrisim and the Galileo Affair of centuries past continue to be such authors' best evidences for their belief, then they don't have much ground to stand on. Compare these and what few other "antiscience" events one finds in orthodox, rational Christianity to its pro-science history and scholars,
one finds the former doesn't even show up on the charts.
Why write all this all on one paragraph? Because there is so much bad science out there as there is, and so many don't like science, simply because people like this don't test what they believe.
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