Celestial Objects for Modern Telescopes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celestial Objects for Modern Telescopes write by Michael A. Covington. This book was released on 2002-09-26. Celestial Objects for Modern Telescopes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on field notes made by the author during his own career as an amateur astronomer, this unique guide covers both the traditional and novel approaches to studying the night sky. In addition to the more standard techniques, it discusses the latest modern resources available to today s astronomer, such as personal computers, the Internet, and computerized telescopes. It includes practical advice on aspects such as site selection and weather; provides the reader with detailed instructions for observing the Sun, Moon, planets, and all types of deep-sky objects; and it introduces newer specialities such as satellite observing and the use of astronomical databases. The book concludes with detailed information about 200 stars, clusters, nebulae, and galaxies, suitable for viewing with modest-sized telescopes under suburban conditions. Written to complement How to Use a Computerized Telescope, this book will also appeal to astronomers with more traditional equipment.
Hartung's Astronomical Objects for Southern Telescopes
Hartung's Astronomical Objects for Southern Telescopes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hartung's Astronomical Objects for Southern Telescopes write by . This book was released on 1995-10-19. Hartung's Astronomical Objects for Southern Telescopes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Superbly illustrated, up-to-date, expanded version of Hartung's indispensable guide, useful to amateur and expert observers.
300 Astronomical Objects
300 Astronomical Objects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 300 Astronomical Objects write by Jamie Wilkins. This book was released on 2006. 300 Astronomical Objects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A handy and comprehensive reference to the 300 most interesting celestial objects. This book provides a tour through the galaxy, from its solar core to its outer limits, with all the highlights and the very latest data about the universe. Convenient data sidebars with each entry provide facts and figures on every object- including mass, magnitude, density, radius, rotation period, and surface and core temperatures. An annotated cross-section of the object enhances this information, and a full-page photograph brings the object to life. Additional spreads bring together and explain related objects or phenomena. For example, the corresponding pages for the sun include solar power, sunspots and solar flares. Others examples include: *Mercury: Mercury's surface *The asteroid belt: Eros 433 *Jupiter's moons: 10, Europa, Callista *Outer belts and comets: Halley's comet; Deep Impact *Space telescopes: International Space Station. 300 Astronomical Objects is a handy reference for the amateur astronomer. AUTHOR: Jamie Wilkins has a degree in astrophysics from Cambridge University. Robert Dunn has a degree in natural sciences, specializing in physics, from Cambridge University, where he is a researcher at the Institute of Astronomy. 300 + colour illustrations
How to Use a Computerized Telescope
How to Use a Computerized Telescope - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Use a Computerized Telescope write by Michael A. Covington. This book was released on 2002-09-26. How to Use a Computerized Telescope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first handbook that describes how to start observing the sky with a computerized telescope.
The Birth of Modern Astronomy
The Birth of Modern Astronomy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Birth of Modern Astronomy write by Harm J. Habing. This book was released on 2019-03-23. The Birth of Modern Astronomy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This richly illustrated book discusses the ways in which astronomy expanded after 1945 from a modest discipline to a robust and modern science. It begins with an introduction to the state of astronomy in 1945 before recounting how in the following years, initial observations were made in hitherto unexplored ranges of wavelengths, such as X-radiation, infrared radiation and radio waves. These led to the serendipitous discovery of more than a dozen new phenomena, including quasars and neutron stars, that each triggered a new area of research. The book goes on to discuss how after 1985, the further, systematic exploration of the earlier discoveries led to long-term planning and the construction of new, large telescopes on Earth and in Space. Key scientific highlights described in the text are the detection of exoplanets (1995), the unexpected discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe (1999), a generally accepted model for the large-scale properties of the Universe (2003) and the ΛCDM theory (2005) that explains how the galaxies and stars of the present Universe were formed from minute irregularities in the (almost) homogenous gas that filled the early Universe. All these major scientific achievements came at a price, namely the need to introduce two new phenomena that are as yet unexplained by physics: inflation and dark energy. Probably the deepest unsolved question has to be: Why did all of this start with a Big Bang?
