Mathematical Astronomy Morsels Combined Table of Contents This is a combined table of contents for all four volumes of Mathematical Astronomy Morsels by Jean Meeus. It is organized by section, then by chapter titles within each section. Numbers indicate the volume number followed by the chapter number. For example 2-54 refers to volume 2, chapter 54. Celestial Sphere About the shortest day 2-54 All five planets simultaneously 2-61 Alpha is Not Always the Brightest 1-51 Can Venus be visible at midnight? 3-47 Culmination and meridian transit 2-55 Diurnal path and horizon 3-51 Ecliptic and Galactic Equator 1-48 Heliacal Rising and Settings 1-46 More sunshine near the Polar Circles 3-52 Pole and constellations 2-57 Precession, aberration & Co 2-59 Proper motions and star patterns 2-60 Simultaneous greatest elongations 3-48 Simultaneous inferior conjunctions 3-49 Sun and horizon 2-53 The Declination of Polaris 1-50 The Equinoctial and Solstitial Points and the 1-49 Constellations The greatest variation of the altitude 2-56 The planets' greatest declinations 3-50 The Positions of Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Ceres at 1-47 their Discovery Dates Venus as evening and morning star 2-62 Zodiacal constellations 2-58 Eclipses and Occultations A strange effect at eclipses and occultations 4-19 A new type of solar eclipse 4-20 - 1 -
A special type of lunar eclipse 4-28 About crossing central lines 3-14 About partial solar and lunar eclipses 4-26 About Saros and Inex series 3-18 About solar and lunar eclipses 3-22 About solar eclipses of type IV 3-09 About successive partial solar eclipses 4-18 About the occultations of Antares, Aldebaran, and Beta 4-31 Tauri About the smallest "single" solar eclipse 2-18 About the speed of the Moon s shadow 4-14 Accumulating totalities 3-13 Annular-total solar eclipses 3-07 Broken-ring eclipses 3-08 Central eclipses at midnight 4-13 Central line and maximum duration of totality 4-10 Christmas eclipses 2-22 Curious and Interesting Facts About Lunar Eclipses 1-16 Curious and Interesting Facts About Solar Eclipses 1-10 Eclipse duos 3-19 Eclipses of the satellites of Saturn 2-32 Exotic eclipses 3-23 Groups of occultations of planets 4-32 Intervals between lunar eclipses 4-27 Is a non-central annular-total solar eclipse possible? 2-19 Just-missing partial "eclipses" 3-17 Large solar eclipses at the Poles 3-15 Long eclipseless periods 2-16 Lunar eclipses and Full Moon 4-29 Lunar eclipses of long duration 2-24 Lunar eclipses on Easter Sunday 2-25 Lunar tetrads 3-21 Magnitude, ratio and obscuration 3-20 Mutual occultations of minor planets 2-31 Mutual occultations of planets 2-30 Nearly-Zenithal Central Solar Eclipses 1-15 Northernmost and southernmost lunar eclipses 4-30 Occultations of bright stars by Jupiter and Saturn 4-33 Occultations of bright stars by minor planets 2-29 Occultations of Bright Stars by Planets 1-25 Occultations of bright stars by planets 2-28 - 2 -
Occultations of Bright Stars by the Eclipsed Moon 1-22 Occultations of Bright Stars by the Moon 1-20 Occultations of deep-sky objects during a total lunar 2-27 eclipse Occultations of Planets by the Eclipsed Moon 1-23 Occultations of Planets by the Eclipsed Sun 1-24 Painted Globe 2-15 Proliferation of local solar eclipses 4-16 Regions of Visibility of Solar Eclipses 1-11 Remarkable distributions of eclipses 4-25 Saros and Inex series of lunar eclipses 4-23 Series of Occultations 1-19 Series of Occultations of Saturn 1-21 Similar eclipse paths 3-04 Simultaneous occultations of planets 2-26 Solar and lunar eclipses at a given place 2-12 Solar eclipses and calendar months 2-11 Solar eclipses with long complete duration 4-09 Solar eclipses with long central lines 3-05 Solar eclipses: a region of visibility with two nodes 4-21 Solar eclipses: Duos and Double Duos 2-21 Solar eclipses: shapes of central lines 3-06 Solar Eclipses: Some Periodicities 1-09 Tetrads and solar eclipses 4-22 The calculation of solar eclipses 2-08 The extinction of total solar eclipses 2-20 The Frequency of Total and Annular Solar Eclipses for a 1-13 Given Place The Half-Saros 1-18 The length of Saros series and the frequency of solar 4-24 eclipses The length of the solar crescent during a partial solar 4-15 eclipse The maximum duration of a total solar eclipse 3-10 The maximum possible duration of an annular solar 4-08 eclipse The Number of Eclipses in a Year 1-08 The number of total solar eclipses per year 2-10 The period of 112 years 4-17 The shortest time interval between two totalities at the 3-12 same place - 3 -
The time interval between two successive solar eclipses 3-11 The total solar eclipse of 2015 March 20 at the North 4-07 Pole The Wednesday enigma 2-23 Three special annular solar eclipses 2-09 Three total solar eclipses in a short interval 2-14 Total and Annular Solar Eclipses in Close Succession at 1-14 a Given Place Total Penumbral Lunar Eclipses 1-17 Total solar eclipses of long duration 2-17 Total solar eclipses of long duration in Europe 4-06 Total solar eclipses of long duration in the United Sates 4-05 Total solar eclipses per country 2-13 Two eclipses in northern Siberia and the period of 10 3-03 years Uranus, Neptune, and bright stars 4-34 When is the Northern Limit the Southern One? 1-12 When only a part of the shadow passes over the Earth 4-12 Where does greatest eclipse occur? 3-16 Wide paths 4-11 Years with five solar eclipses 3-02 Moon About the Metonic Cycle 2-05 About the Moon's elongation 2-02 About the phases of the Moon 4-01 Extreme Declinations of the Moon 1-05 Extreme perigees and apogees of the Moon 2-06 Extreme perigees and apogees of the Moon - mystery 3-01 solved Full Moon and opposition in right ascension 4-03 Months With Five Lunar Phases 1-07 Northernmost and southernmost Full Moons 4-02 The age of the Moon 2-03 The brightest Full Moon and the phase effect 2-07 The Distribution of the Moon's Perigee and Apogree 1-03 Distances The duration of the lunation 2-04 The Extreme Values of the Distance of the Moon to the 1-02 Earth - 4 -
The Harvest Moon 2-01 The Instantaneous Lunar Orbit 1-01 The Librations of the Moon 1-06 The Moon as a boat 4-04 What is the Mean Value of the Earth-Moon Distance? 1-04 Planetary Motions A Periodicity of 179 Years? 1-29 About the orbital inclinations of the asteroids 4-40 About the perihelia of Saturn 3-29 About the synodic period of a satellite 3-33 Asteroid 63252 and Comet Lexell 3-25 Asteroids of the Hilda group 4-35 Ceres and Pallas, and Other Couples 1-33 Close approaches between asteroids 3-27 Cruithne, an asteroid with a remarkable orbit 2-38 Defining Asteroids of the Apollo and Amor Types 1-35 Evolution of two cometary orbits 2-39 Hidalgo and friends 4-37 How Often are the Planets Aligned? 1-31 Iris and Metis 3-26 Long-period variations of the orbit of Mars 2-35 Long-period variations of the orbit of the Earth 2-33 Long-period variations of the orbit of Venus 2-34 Mars' closest approaches to Earth 2-36 On 'Remarkable' relations between the Mean Motions of 1-32 the Planets On the Passages of Earth in Perihelion 1-27 Periheloids and Apheloids 1-28 Periodicities in the world of the minor planets 4-39 Planetary perturbations 3-30 Planetary Quadrants and Planetary Sectors 1-30 Planets and the Latus Rectum 3-28 Pseudotrojans 4-38 Seneca, Orthos, and Quetzalcoatl 1-34 Surface gravity and escape velocity 3-32 The Barycenter of the Solar System 1-26 The minor planet Thule 4-36 The motion of a satellite with respect to the Sun 2-40 The Orbital inclinations of the Four Galilean Satellites 1-37 - 5 -
The Periodic Comet Encke and Jupiter 1-36 The recovery of Albert 2-37 The Trojans 3-24 True and apparent distances 3-31 Planetary Phenomena About some planetary conjunctions 2-41 About the conjunctions of Mars 4-47 About the Venus-Jupiter conjunctions 2-42 About the visibility of Mercury 4-43 Another list of Venus transits 3-42 Close planet-star conjunctions 2-43 Equinoxes and solstices on Uranus and Neptune 2-51 Illuminated fraction and greatest elongation 2-47 Jupiter and Triple Shadow Phenomena 1-44 Jupiter with only one visible satellite 3-39 Jupiter Without Satellites 1-45 Jupiter without satellites, 1600-1799 2-49 Jupiter: triple satellite phenomena 3-40 Mars and the Pleiades 4-48 More about the Venus-Jupiter conjunctions 4-46 More simultaneous transits 3-45 More than one opposition in one year? 3-34 Mutual occultations of planets (off-earth) 3-46 Nearly-simultaneous inferior conjunctions of Mercury and 4-45 Venus On the changing aspect of Saturn's ring 2-50 On the greatest elongations of Mercury and Venus 4-44 Opposition Loops 1-39 Opposition Places 1-40 Periodicities in the Phenomena of the Satellites of 1-43 Jupiter Planet-planet oppositions 4-50 Planetary Groupings 1-42 Planetary groupings 2-46 Planetary Motions: Approximate Periodicities 1-38 Playing with orbital elements 4-52 Quintuple conjunctions 4-49 Ring sighting 4-57 Satellites of Jupiter: simultaneous greatest elongations 4-53 - 6 -
Shadows on Jupiter 3-38 Simultaneous transits 3-44 The axial tilt of Mercury 3-35 The Jupiter-Regulus conjunctions 2-44 The motion of periodic comet Halley 4-41 The motion of the Sun in the sky of Mercury 3-36 The wrong periodicity of d Arrest 4-55 Transits as seen from Pluto 2-52 Transits of Earth as seen from Jupiter 4-56 Transits of Mercury - panoramas and partial transits 2-48 Transits of Venus and Mercury: some secular variations 3-41 Transits of Venus: local durations 3-43 Triple Conjunctions 1-41 True and angular distances 4-42 Trying to solve the problem 4-51 Venus and Antares 3-37 Venus and the Pleiades 2-45 When a satellite occults a shadow 4-54 Statistics Solar Activity and the Brightness of Lunar Eclipses 1-55 Statistics: Danger! 1-53 Sunspots and the Weather 1-54 The Mean Frequency, Yes, but 1-52 Varia A calendrical problem 4-59 A sky full of moons? 3-57 About sunspot activity 2-75 About the Equinoxes and the Solstices 1-57 About the latitude of the Sun 4-62 About the rate of change in daylight length 4-65 Approximations 2-67 Astronomical anomalies? 2-70 Decreasing right ascensions 4-58 Delta T 4-60 Friday the 13th 3-56 Galileo's first records of Jupiter's satellites 3-54 How long is the Earth s shadow cone? 4-66 - 7 -
Incorrect definitions 2-72 Peculiarities about minor planet names 2-74 Peculiarities about minor planet names 4-68 Planetographic and planetocentric latitudes 3-55 Planets and radio disturbances 2-73 Predicting Sunspot Activity 1-62 Pursuing the Sun 3-53 Rounding Numbers 1-61 Some popular misconceptions 2-71 Some special astronomical phenomena during the 21st 2-64 century The 13th day 4-67 The Date of Easter - Some Interesting Data 1-60 The day of the year - a mathematical joke 2-66 The declination of the Sun at the equinoxes and at the 4-63 solstices The dip of the horizon and the times of sunrise and 4-64 sunset The Distribution of Easter Sundays 1-59 The effect of DeltaT on astronomical calculations 2-68 The Equation of Time 1-56 The Gregorian calendar and the tropical year 2-63 The puzzling relation between sidereal time and 4-61 Universal Time The shortest and the longest twilight 2-65 The Simplex method and the least distance between two 2-69 planetary orbits The Weekday of Christmas Day 1-58 - 8 -