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| Preface | p. vii |
| A Note to the Student | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Contributors | p. xiii |
| The Daytime Sky | p. 1 |
| Using a Handy Tool to Locate Objects in the Sky | p. 12 |
| Plotting the Apparent Daily Motion of the Sun | p. 16 |
| Keeping a Journal of the Sun's Apparent Motion | p. 18 |
| The Nighttime Sky | p. 21 |
| Keeping a Journal of the Moon's Motion | p. 35 |
| Building and Using a Star Finder | p. 37 |
| The Celestial Sphere: A Model of the Sky | p. 41 |
| Building a Celestial Sphere | p. 59 |
| Modeling the Sun's Apparent Motion | p. 63 |
| Modeling the Reasons for the Seasons | p. 69 |
| Distances, Sizes, and Angles | p. 73 |
| Estimating Size and Distance | p. 83 |
| Seeing Details | p. 88 |
| Measuring Angular Size | p. 91 |
| About Light | p. 95 |
| Judging Apparent Brightness at Various Distances | p. 108 |
| About Mirrors and Lenses | p. 113 |
| Investigating Mirrors | p. 125 |
| Investigating Pinholes and Lenses | p. 128 |
| Building and Using a Pinhole Tube | p. 131 |
| Building and Using an Astronomical Telescope | p. 135 |
| Earth, Moon, and Sun | p. 143 |
| Making Scale Models of the Earth, Moon, and Sun | p. 160 |
| Modeling the Phases of the Moon | p. 163 |
| The Paths of the Planets | p. 171 |
| Plotting the Orbits of Mercury and Venus | p. 179 |
| Making a Scale Model of the Solar System | p. 182 |
| Keeping It All Together: Gravity | p. 191 |
| How Does a Pendulum Swing? | p. 207 |
| Stars | p. 211 |
| Estimating How Many 200-watt Bulbs "Equal" the Sun | p. 229 |
| Using a Flashlight to Estimate Distances to Stars | p. 233 |
| Using Apparent Brightness to Estimate Stellar Distances | p. 235 |
| Building Three-Dimensional Models of Constellations | p. 241 |
| More about Light | p. 245 |
| Investigating Colors of the Spectrum | p. 254 |
| Investigating the Colors of Objects | p. 260 |
| What Do Filters Do? | p. 265 |
| Graphing the Spectrum | p. 269 |
| More about Stars | p. 273 |
| Graphing Color and Temperature | p. 284 |
| Measuring Colors with the Spectrometer | p. 287 |
| What Is the Sun Made Of? | p. 289 |
| The Milky Way | p. 293 |
| Locating the Solar System in the Milky Way Galaxy | p. 306 |
| Galaxies and the Universe | p. 313 |
| Determining Galaxy Sizes and Distances | p. 321 |
| The Universe on a Rubber Band | p. 324 |
| Observing the Structure of the Universe | p. 326 |
| Odds and Ends | p. 331 |
| Tossing Coins | p. 343 |
| Tossing Dice | p. 345 |
| Using Astrology to Identify a "Famous" Person | p. 346 |
| Trekking among the Stars | p. 349 |
| Portraits of the Planets | p. 361 |
| Glossary | p. 379 |
| Answers to Self-Test Questions | p. 383 |
| Some Astronomy Resources on the World Wide Web | p. 391 |
| Illustration Credits | p. 393 |
| Index | p. 395 |
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