Astronomy, space and time

Patrick Moore has pulled together a group of professional and amateur astronomers, each an expert in a particular field, to describe how to observe every category of object that is within reach of an astronomical telescope of modest size.

Here is a comprehensive guide for every amateur astronomer who hopes to do more than just star-gaze.

In a year that will probably be remembered almost as much for books about the millennium as for the turn of 2000 A.

Although transits of planets across the Sun are rare (only Mercury and Venus orbit the Sun closer than us, and so can transit the Sun's disc) amateur astronomers can observe, record and image other kinds of transit, which are very much more frequent.

Background A new collection of deep sky targets for the modern amateur astronomer was long overdue.

Steve Coe has been watching the deep sky from locations near his home in Arizona for almost 20 years.

The purpose of this book is two-fold.

The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the numerous safe methods of observing the Sun and solar eclipses, and to suggest objects and features to observe and observing programmes to follow.

Because today's amateur astronomical telescopes are both powerful and affordable, spectroscopy - once the province of professionals - is becoming more and more popular.

Since comet Shoemaker-Levy collided with the planet Jupiter with stupendous force in 1994 there has been an upsurge of amateur interest in comets.

As an amateur astronomer with years of experience, I marvel at the joy experienced by a beginner who successfully hunts down their first deep-space object in a telescope.

Stellar evolution - the birth, development and death of stars - is central to our current understanding of astronomy.

Observing variable stars is one of the major contributions amateur astronomers make to science.

The Sun is the brightest and most accessible object in the sky, and it has much to offer the amateur astronom er with modest equipment.

The modern aspiring astronomer is faced with a bewil- dering choice of commercially produced telescopes, including all the designs considered in the preceding chapter.

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.

Almost every serious amateur astronomer knows the benefit of having a fixed observatory of some sort - it saves a vast amount of time and effort during every observing session - and this book provides the necessary help.

Amateur astronomy is becoming more and more popular, mostly because of the availability of relatively low-cost astronomical telescopes of superb quality - commercially-made Schmidt-Cassegrain and Maksutovs.

Small telescopes have a lot to recommend them.

Deep-sky observing - that's looking at the stars, nebulae and galaxies - is easily the most popular field for amateur astronomers.

One of the wonderful aspects of the US Manned Spaceflight Program was the opportunity for people around the entire globe to participate in one of man's greatest adventures.

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

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from INCREASE 2023, Indonesia.

Are we alone in the universe?

Are we alone in the universe?

This book provides a comprehensive description of advances in the study of general relativistic instability supernovae.

';Entertaining and engrossing' Sean Carroll Press the snooze button on your alarm once too often and you soon remember the importance of good timekeeping.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ';Sean Carroll has achieved something I thought impossible: a bridge between popular science and the mathematical universe of working physicists.

Astronomy in Depth fills the need for a textbook that covers pre-university level Astronomy courses (in the UK, the GCSE syllabuses) and provides numerical examples to help students.

Celestron's NexStar telescopes were introduced in 1999, beginning with their first computer controlled "e;go to"e; model, a 5-inch.

One of the wonders of the universe we live in is the Milky Way.

The 3-D Atlas of the Stars and Galaxies shows the stars and A star at twice that distance (and showing a parallax of one-half galaxies in three-dimensional space, with the third of a second of arc) is said to be at a distance of'two parsecs'; one dimension- distance- dire.

Tantrasangraha, composed by the renowned Kerala astronomer Nilakantha Somayaji (c.

This book takes the reader on an exploration of the Cosmos, from Mesopotamia and Egypt to China; it unveils the fascinating development of astronomy and mathematics.

This proceedings volume contains selected and expanded contributions presented at the 8th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, held in Beijing, China on 15~17 November, 2023.

This comprehensive introductory overview describes the emission of radiation (X-rays to radio) and the winds of host stars and how they control the past, present, and future evolution of an exoplanet.

Interested students in the natural and engineering sciences, as well as high school graduates, instructors, teachers, and amateur astronomers, will find a valuable overview of the physics of stars in this book.

A unified quantum theory incorporating the four fundamental forces of nature is one of the major open problems in physics.

This third edition of Malcolm Longair's highly acclaimed textbook is an up-to-date text on astrophysical cosmology expounding the structure of classical cosmological models from a contemporary viewpoint.

This book presents high-quality contributions in the subject area of Aerospace System Science and Engineering, including topics such as: Trans-space vehicle systems design and integration, Air vehicle systems, Space vehicle systems, Near-space vehicle systems, Opto-electronic system, Aerospace robotics and unmanned system, Aerospace robotics and unmanned system, Communication, navigation, and surveillance, Dynamics and control, Intelligent sensing and information fusion, Aerodynamics and aircraft design, Aerospace propulsion, Avionics system, Air traffic management, Earth observation, Deep space exploration, and Bionic micro-aircraft/spacecraft.

This textbook provides students with a solid introduction to the techniques of approximation commonly used in data analysis across physics and astronomy.

This third edition of Malcolm Longair's highly acclaimed textbook is an up-to-date text on astrophysical cosmology expounding the structure of classical cosmological models from a contemporary viewpoint.

This volume presents cutting-edge research on one of modern cosmology's most intriguing challenges: the observed dipolar anisotropies that appear to conflict with the standard ΛCDM cosmological model.

The world is warming up rapidly and this change is most noticeable in mountains with already observable consequences on flora and fauna.

This book features several of the significant scientific debates and controversies that helped develop space science in the early space era.

This book presents pioneering work on a critical observational test of the planet formation theory based on the theoretical study of the water snowline, beyond which water takes the form of ice, in the protoplanetary disks - the place where planets are formed.