Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment and methods

Orreries-mechanical models of the Solar System and its motions-are found everywhere.

The International Conference, Orbis Scientiae 1996, focused on the topics: The Neutrino Mass, Light Cone Quantization, Monopole Condensation, Dark Matter, and Gravitational Waves which we have adopted as the title of these proceedings.

This book describes William Dawes' life and professional achievements.

Mars, popularly known as the Red Planet because of its distinct color, is visible with the naked eye and is one of very few planets in the Solar System in which it is possible to see weather phenomena and surface features and thus is a favorite for amateur and practical astronomers.

Before streets were brightly illuminated at night, astronomy was accessible to everyone and was a matter of great importance: for divination; for setting appropriate dates for planting, harvest, and festivals; for regulating lives.

Distance determination is an essential technique in astronomy, and is briefly covered in most textbooks on astrophysics and cosmology.

In this book, Boston University Professor of Astronomy Michael Mendillo takes readers deep into the annals of history, showing how visual depictions of the heavens evolved in tandem with science and religion throughout much of Western culture.

Designed for anyone who wishes to learn the constellations or observe the best and brightest deep sky objects and double stars, this book contains an alphabetical list of constellations complete with star maps, historical background, and highlights of deep sky objects.

In the history of science the opening up of a new observational or experimental window is always followed by an increase in knowledge of the subject concerned.

This book provides a theoretical and observational overview of the state of the art of gamma-ray astrophysics, and their impact and connection with the physics of cosmic rays and neutrinos.

The beginning astronomical observer passes through a series of stages.

This proceedings volume contains selected and expanded contributions presented at the 6th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, held in Delft, the Netherlands on Sep 24th-25th, 2019.

Prominent progress in science is inevitably associated with controversies.

The aim of the IV International Symposium on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics, HAMSYS-2001 was to join top researchers in the area of Celestial Mechanics, Hamiltonian systems and related topics in order to communicate new results and look forward for join research projects.

Galaxies present a unique challenge to town dwellers.

Modern astronomy has been characterized by an enormous growth in data acquisition - from new technologies in telescopes, detectors, and computation.

Discover the wonders of the Universe with this complete introduction to observing and understanding the night sky.

Every year Earth is bombarded with about 40,000 tons of extraterrestrial material.

This book arises from the significant quantity of original results in the field of impact spectropolarimetry, mainly for solar flare studies, and the evident potential applications of this technique to environmental physics, astrophysics, and hot plasma.

Als begehbares, immersives Modell des Kosmos gewährte das Projektionsplanetarium zu Beginn des 20.

An overview of asteroid science, summarising the astronomical and geological characteristics of asteroids, for students and researchers.

Venus and Mercury have always been regarded as difficult targets for amateurs, but advances in commercially-made instruments have brought them within range of only moderately experienced observers.

This This book book is is a a research research monograph monograph on on Fresnel Fresnel zone zone antennas.

First published in 1999, this is an expanded and updated edition of the best-selling, standard handbook on astrophotography for amateurs.

People must have watched the skies from time immemorial.

What is unorthodox in this book?

Ultrasound is currently used in a wide spectrum of applications ranging from medical imaging to metal cutting.

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) concerns the interaction between magnetic fields and conducting fluids.

This book describes the development of astronomy in the Extreme Ultraviolet wavelength range.

Computers and Astronomy Perhaps every generation of astronomers believes that their telescopes are the best that have ever been.

I have recently discovered the most satisfying hobby so far, and to be frank, I have pursued quite a few hobbies in my time!

Black holes entered the world of science fiction and films in the 1960s, and their popularity in our culture remains today.

An essential text for graduate students in astronomy and physics, providing a thorough review of modern observational techniques and instruments.

The universe literally encompasses everything we were, are and will be, everything we knew, know and can know.

This volume contains the lectures and contributions presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "e;Frontier Topics in Nuclear Physics"e;, held at Predeal in Romania from 24 August to 4 September 1993.

This biography covers the life of Lewis Swift (1820-1913), who discovered 13 comets and nearly 1,200 other deep sky objects.

How radio astronomers challenged national borders, disciplinary boundaries, and the constraints of vision to create an international scientific community.

In recent years, there has been increased interest in our Solar System.

This edited volume charts the history of celestial navigation over the course of five centuries.

An understanding of the collisions between micro particles is of great importance for the number of fields belonging to physics, chemistry, astrophysics, biophysics etc.

This edited volume presents the current state of gas accretion studies from both observational and theoretical perspectives, and charts our progress towards answering the fundamental yet elusive question of how galaxies get their gas.