Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment and methods

On 25 May 1961, John F Kennedy announced the goal of landing an American man on the Moon by the end of the decade.

A valuable reference that fills a number of niches including that of a buyer's guide, technical desk reference and observer's field guide.

This is a follow-on book to the introductory textbook "e;Physics of the Solar Corona"e; previously published in 2004 by the same author, which provided a systematic introduction and covered mostly scientific results from the pre-2000 era.

Many of the ISO observers who assembled for this workshop at Ringberg c- tle met for the third time in the Bavarian Alps.

Most amateur astronomers, because they live in or near cities, have to carry out their observing from relatively light-polluted sites.

Faint Objects and How to Observe Them is for visual observers who are equipped with a 10-inch or larger astronomical telescope and who want to "e;go deep"e; with their observing.

There are 'voids' obscuring all kinds of objects in the cosmos.

Deep-Sky Video Astronomy is a concise guide to using modern integrating video cameras for deep-sky viewing and imaging with the kinds of modest telescopes available commercially to amateur astronomers.

Reflector antennas are widely used in the microwave and millimeter wavelength domain.

Human civilization has evolved to the point at which we can consider tapping space resources and expanding beyond Earth's atmosphere.

There is no dearth of books on telescope optics and, indeed, optics is clearly a keyelementinthedesignandconstructionoftelescopes.

The first star atlas devoted to the Herschel objects, a must-have for stargazers who want to explore these fascinating objects.

The Wheels of Apollo and the Quest for Mars fills a need for a complete history of the Lunar Roving Vehicle used on Apollo 15, 16 and 17, drawing on many photographs never before published.

Revised second edition for advanced undergraduate students in astronomy and astrophysics.

Atomic jets and molecular out?

Small telescopes have a lot to recommend them.

Turbulence and magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the Universe.

Astronomy isthemostancientsciencehumanshavepracticedonEarth.

Long regarded as the finest photographic lunar atlas available, The Hatfield Lunar Atlas is a model of accuracy and clarity.

Not all amateur astronomers who live in a suburban location realize just how very effective a 'chilled-chip' astronomical CCD-camera and software can be at cutting through seemingly impenetrable light-pollution.

It is a pleasure to present this work, which has been well received in German-speaking countries through four editions, to the English-speaking reader.

Eyes on the Universe is an illustrated history of the telescope, beginning with pre-telescopic observatories and the refractors of Galileo, Lippershey and Digges, and ending with the most modern instruments including - of course - the Hubble Space Telescope.

La Caille was one of the observational astronomers and geodesists who followed Newton in developing ideas about celestial mechanics and the shape of the earth.

The Cargese Workshop Random Surfaces and Quantum Gravity was held from May 27 to June 2, 1990.

xxii CONTENTS In 1957 I was invited to work on special problems in Magnetic Laboratory of the Academy of Sciences of USSR as a Head of Department of Magnetic Hydrodynamics.

Every amateur astronomer - and many non-astronomers - will be familiar with seeing a "e;star"e; that shows that characteristic steady slide across the starry background of the sky.

This star guide enables amateur astronomers to focus on a class of object, and using an observation list that begins with the easiest object, find and move progressively over a period of months to more difficult targets.

In 1979 I gave graduate courses at the University of Zurich and lectured in the 'Troisieme Cycle de la Suisse Romande' (a consortium offour uni- versities in the french-speaking part of Switzerland), and these lectures were the basis of the 'Springer Lecture Notes in Physics', Volume 150, published in 1981.

In the early part of the eighteenth century, Francesco Bianchini of Verona turned his primitive telescope - a refractor of only a few centimetres aperture but with an enormous focal length of around 20 metres - on the planet Venus.

In 'Paving the Way for Apollo 11' David Harland explains the lure of the Moon to classical philosophers, astronomers, and geologists, and how NASA set out to investigate the Moon in preparation for a manned lunar landing mission.

In the 1960s and 1970s deep space missions were dispatched in pairs in case one was lost in launch or failed during its journey.

Exploring Ancient Skies brings together the methods of archaeology and the insights of modern astronomy to explore the science of astronomy as it was practiced in various cultures prior to the invention of the telescope.

This book has been designed for a final year undergraduate course in stochastic processes.

This book takes the reader on an exploration of the structure and evolution of our universe.

Both beginning/novice amateur astronomers (at the level of Astronomy and Night Sky magazine readers), as well as more advanced amateur astronomers (level of Sky and Telescope) will find this book invaluable and fascinating.

Astromineralogy deals with the science of gathering mineralogical information from the astronomical spectroscopy of asteroids, comets and dust in the circumstellar environments in general.

Contemporary research in atomic and molecular physics concerns itself with studies of interactions of electron, positron, photons, and ions with atoms, molecules, and clusters; interactions of intense ultrashort laser interaction with atoms, molecules, and solids; laser assisted atomic collisions, optical, and magnetic traps of neutral atoms to produce ultracold and dense samples; high resolution atomic spectroscopy and experiments by using synchrotron radiation sources and ion storage rings.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

"e;New Eyes on the Universe - Twelve Cosmic Mysteries and the Tools We Need to Solve Them"e; gives an up-to-date broad overview of some of the key issues in modern astronomy and cosmology.

A physicist and an inventor, Jules Janssen (1824-1907) devoted his life to astronomical research.

This book presents the astrophysical concepts behind astronomical spectroscopy, covering both theoretical and practical elements.

This book provides a brief and pedagogic introduction to a variety of topics, with a common motif that they all occur, in some way or other, in "e;the sky"e;, and involve some sort of "e;rhythm"e;.

A concise introduction and overview of variable stars, for undergraduate students and experienced amateur astronomers, first published in 2007.

Many amateur astronomers make their own instruments, either because of financial considerations or because they are just interested.

My principal aim in writing this book was to present a wide range of astrophysical topics in sufficient depth to give the reader a general quantitative understanding of the subject.

This book is devoted to eruptive phenomena on the Sun, the most dangerous sources of space weather disturbances.

HESS (High Energy Stereoscopic System), a ground-based Cerenkov array telescopes has been operated since a few years and in 2004 has performed the ?

From the reviews:"e;It survives the pitfalls of this fashion-conscious era by pursuing a rigorously independent-minded attitude to contemporary ideas.