The stars of heaven

ch. 1. Stellar parallax and the quest for transcendence

ch. 2. The joy and Paschen of starlight

ch. 3. Spectral classes, temperatures, and doppler shifts

ch. 4. Luminosity and the distance modulus

ch. 5. Hertzsprung-Russell, mass-luminosity relations, and binary stars

ch. 6. Last tango on the heliopause

ch. 7. Stellar evolution and the helium flash

ch. 8. Stellar graveyards, nucleosynthesis, and why we exist

ch. 9. Some final thoughts.