Astronomical Phenomena for the Year 2020

Abstract

This small, useful booklet contains general interest material preprinted from The Astronomical Almanac. It is published jointly by the U.S. Naval Observatory and Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office two years in advance of its date. It includes such things as: dates for Solar equinoxes, solstices, phases of the Moon eclipse maps dates for various planetary phenomena visibility and magnitudes of the planets dates for some religious and civil holidays chronological eras and cycles the equation of time and declination of the Sun sunrise/set, moonrise/set times the position of Polaris

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 31, 2020
Accession Number
AD1090251

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Naval Observatory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Navigation
  • Altitude
  • Asia
  • Astronomical Phenomena
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Celestial Mechanics
  • Eclipses
  • Governments
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Lunar Eclipses
  • Navigation
  • North America
  • Observatories
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Solar Eclipses
  • South America
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.