Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment and methods

The thesis describes the development of receiver technologies for sub-millimetre astronomy instruments, focusing on high performance coherent cryogenic detectors operating close to the superconductor gap frequency.

The idea of holding this workshop on "e;The Jllilky Way"e; arose at the conference dinner of a meeting on "e;Regions of Recent Star Formation"e; held at Penticton in June 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.

Whereas conventional maps can be expressed as outward-expanding formulae with well-defined central features and relatively poorly defined edges, Constant Scale Natural Boundary (CSNB) maps have well-defined boundaries that result from natural processes and thus allow spatial and dynamic relationships to be observed in a new way useful to understanding these processes.

This volume contains selected and expanded contributions presented at the 3rd Symposium on Space Optical Instruments and Applications in Beijing, China June 28 - 29, 2016.

This volume contains a series of lectures delivered at the 2nd course of the International School of Astrophysics at the "e;Ettore Majorana"e; Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice (Sicily) from June 22 to July 9, 1974.

Space missions subject human beings or any other target of a spacecraft to a radiation environment of an intensity and composition not available on earth.

This book gathers the proceedings of a symposium on Dynamics of satellites which took place in Prague in May 1969 during the twelfth COSPAR meeting.

There are still many questions that remain about the Moon, which this book examines.

Almost every practical astronomer eventually aspires to have a fixed, permanent observatory for his or her telescope.

Otto von Guericke has been called a neglected genius, overlooked by most modern scholars, scientists, and laymen.

Ptolemy's Almagest shares with Euclid's Elements the glory of being the scientific text longest in use.

It is the customary practice to report the major events of a General Assembly -the Invited Discourses, Joint Discussions and Joint Commission Meetings in Highlights of Astronomy.

This book includes nine chapters written by internationally recognized experts, covering all aspects of millisecond pulsars in one concise and cohesive volume.

This two-volume catalog is the first in-depth investigation of comets that were reported since the 17th century but not confirmed and subsequently lost.

What drives a man, born into the shadows of a medieval worldview, to challenge the heavens themselves?

Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope contains descriptions and photographs of the 103 Messier objects, with instructions on how to find them without a computerized telescope or even setting circles.

For Deborah, Mark and Sarah 'Not another book on cosmology!

The hydrogen Lyman-alpha line is of utmost importance to many fields of astrophysics.

The book describes from a historical point of view how cosmic rays were discovered.

Although the development of ideas about the motion and trajectory of comets has been investigated piecemeal, we lack a comprehensive and detailed survey of ph- ical theories of comets.

This book was written for my daughter, Julia; her love and comfort have helped sustain me.

This volume contains the lectures presented at the second course of the International School of Space Chemistry held in Erice (Sicily) from October 20 - 30 1991 at the "e;E.

Leading public intellectuals give perspectives on the theme of vision from a range of fields across science and the arts.

These are the proceedings of an international meeting hosted by the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the dedication of the UKIRT, the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope.

A fundamental, profound review of the key issues relating to the early universe and the physical processes that occurred in it.

Many amateur astronomers are short of time.

This book aims to assess, evaluate and critically analyze the methods that are currently available for a judicious pest management in durable food.

In diesem Buch haben wir versucht, die vielfache Bedeutung aufzuzeigen, welche die Relativitätstheorie heute hat: Sie ist zunächst - zusammen mit der Quanten­ theorie - eine der wichtigsten Grundlagen der modernen Physik, die vor allem in den Laboratorien der Hochenergiephysik ständige Anwendung fmdet.

This thesis develops new and powerful methods for identifying planetary signals in the presence of "e;noise"e; generated by stellar activity, and explores the physical origin of stellar intrinsic variability, using unique observations of the Sun seen as a star.

We have in this volume, compiled a connected account of the proceedings of the Symposium on Wolf-Rayet and High-Temperature Stars held at Buenos Aires.

Indulge in this collection of the best astronomy books from the past 800 years.

That trees should have been cut down to provide paper for this book was an ecological afIront.

A unique guide introducing the latest modern resources available to amateur observers.

This updated second edition has all of the information needed for your successful forays into deep sky observing.

From the author of "e;Celestial Sleuth"e; (2014), yet more mysteries in art, history, and literature are solved by calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects in paintings.

This book describes the fundamentals of particle detectors as well as their applications.

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.

In every scientific discipline there are milestones - periods of significant accom- plishment when it is appropriate to pause and summarize the state of the field.

Describes how radio astronomers made a series of remarkable serendipitous discoveries that changed our understanding of the Universe.

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

X-ray astronomers discovered the diffuse gas in clusters of galaxies about 20 years ago.

Gravitational lensing is by now sufficiently well understood that it can be used as a tool of investigation in other astrophysical areas.

Many books on general astronomy have been published in recent years, but this one is exceptional in several respects.

This NATO Advanced Study Institute provided an up dated understanding, from a fundamental and deep point of view, of the progress and current problems in the early universe, cosmic microwave background radiation, large scale structure, dark matter problem, and the interplay between them.

In 1996 Meade, the world's largest astronomical telescope manufacturer, introduced the ETX, a low-cost and genuinely portable instrument capable of results close to the theoretical limits of optical performance.