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Ye Stars! Which are the poetry of heaven – Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Cohen's Cosmos LISTINGS FOR COLUMN "ASTRONOMY FROM Å to ZZ" (A column that ran in the Alachua Astronomy Club's Newsletter, FirstLight) (Click for PDF Index) Astronomy is rich with terminology. Common dictionaries contain many of these terms because the English language includes many astronomical words in popular speech. (For example, elongation, gibbous, menses, star and synodic are all in unabridged English dictionaries.) This column briefly introduced a new but basic astronomical term (word, acronym or abbreviation). Began January 1999 with the letter a, each column was alphabetical using successive letters for each article's entry. (Column ran monthly from 1999 through 2001, then only a few times from 2002 to 2008) PDF Index of Monthly Columns Jump Down to Year 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008 (Click on each term below to access a PDF copy of article) TERM PUBLICATION DATE IN FIRSTLIGHT   Year 1999 absolute magnitude 1999 January Bayer letter 1999 February conjunction 1999 March deep sky or deep-sky object 1999 April elongation 1999 May full Moon 1999 June gibbous Moon 1999 July Huygens eyepiece 1999 August inferior planet 1999 September Julian Date (Julian Day Number) 1999 October kelvin (Kelvin scale) 1999 November leap year 1999 December   Year 2000 month 2000 January nebula 2000 February open cluster (originally galactic cluster) 2000 March parsec 2000 April quadrature 2000 May retrograde 2000 June spectral class 2000 July transit (culmination) 2000 August Universal Time 2000 September visual binary 2000 October Wolf sunspot number (incl. sunspots) 2000 November X-rays 2000 December   Year 2001 year 2001 January zenith, zenith distance 2001 February altazimuth mounting 2001 March bolide 2001 April Charon 2001 May Dawes' limit 2001 June early-type star, late-type star 2001 July Flamsteed numbers 2001 August Greenwich Civil (Mean) Time 2001 September Harvest & Hunter's Moons 2001 October impact crater 2001 November Jovian planet 2001 December   Year 2002 Keplerian Telescope 2002 January libration 2002 April   Year 2005 meridian (celestial) 2005 February/March   Year 2008 NGC (New General Catalog) 2008 November/December Return to Top of Page BACK TO COHEN'S COSMOS PAGE   or   RETURN TO HOME PAGE Last updated 2014 February 19 © 2014 H.L. Cohen