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Astronomy with a Budget Telescope, 2nd Edition is a complete introduction to buying and using a low-cost amateur astronomical telescope. It provides essential hints and tips about what to look for when buying on a budget - the best are now excellent value, but they all...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-02-28
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: The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will provide more than one order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity compared with any existing radio telescope over a wavelength range of several hundred to one, from decametric to microwave wavelengths. It will revolutionize the...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-01-11
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Authored by an experienced writer and a well-known researcher of stellar evolution, interstellar matter and spectroscopy, this unique treatise on the formation and observation of organic compounds in space includes a spectroscopy refresher, as well as links to...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2012-01-09
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This most up-to-date, one-stop reference combines coverage of both theory and observational techniques, with introductory sections to bring all readers up to the same level. Written by outstanding researchers directly involved with the scientific program of the Laser...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2012-01-09
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The idea that the speed of light is a constant - at 186,000 miles per second - is one of the few scientific facts that almost everyone knows. That constant - c- also appears in the most famous of all scientific equations: e=mc2- Yet over the last few years, a small...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-12-31
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Written by a carefully selected consortium of researchers working in the field, this book fills the gap for an up-to-date summary of the observational and theoretical status. As such, this monograph includes all used wavelengths, from radio to gamma, the FERMI...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2011-12-08
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Adopted as the official book of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA) 2009, this stunningly illustrated history of telescopic discovery spans the range from the first telescopes via the Hubble Space Telescope to next generation platforms, and how they have changed...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2011-12-07
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This authoritative book presents the theoretical development of gravitational physics as it applies to the dynamics of celestial bodies and the analysis of precise astronomical observations. In so doing, it fills the need for a textbook that teaches modern dynamical...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2011-10-25
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Distance determination is an essential technique in astronomy, and is briefly covered in most textbooks on astrophysics and cosmology. It is rarely covered as a coherent topic in its own right. When it is discussed the approach is frequently very dry, splitting the...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-09-20
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In the words of those who trod the void and those at missioncontrol, here are over 50 of the greatest true stories of suborbital,orbital and deep-space exploration. From Apollo 8'sfirst view of a fractured, tortured landscape of craters on the'dark side' of the Moon to...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2011-09-01
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This 22nd volume in the series contains 15 invited reviews and highlight contributions from outstanding speakers presented during the 2009 annual meeting of the Astronomical Society on the subject of "Deciphering the Universe through Spectroscopy", held in Potsdam,...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2011-08-24
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Reviews in Modern Astronomy
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Die Beiträge zu diesem Band gehen auf die von der Grimmelshausen-Gesellschaft im März 2009 in Oberkirch veranstaltete Tagung «Grimmelshausen als Kalenderschriftsteller und die zeitgenössische Kalenderliteratur» zurück. Anlass für die intensive Beschäftigung mit der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-07-08
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An invaluable, user-friendly guide to discovering and navigating the night sky every monthThe Night Sky Month by Month in ebook format offers directions for observing stars and constellations in both the northern and southern hemispheres at any time of the year....
Editeur :
Dorling Kindersley
Parution :
2011-01-20
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This Very Short Introduction looks deep into space and describes the worlds that make up our Solar System: terrestrial planets, giant planets, dwarf planets and various other objects such as satellites (moons), asteroids and Trans-Neptunian objects. It considers how our...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-11-25
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This Very Short Introduction looks deep into space and describes the worlds that make up our Solar System: terrestrial planets, giant planets, dwarf planets and various other objects such as satellites (moons), asteroids and Trans-Neptunian objects. It considers how our...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-11-25
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The Almagest, by the Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, is the most important surviving treatise on early mathematical astronomy, offering historians valuable insight into the astronomy and mathematics of the ancient world.
Pedersen's 1974 publication, A...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-11-12
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Building an astronomical telescope offers the amateur astronomer an exciting challenge, with the possibility of ending up with a far bigger and better telescope than could have been afforded otherwise. In the past, the starting point has always been the grinding and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-10-14
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Just over four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a 'hurried little masterpiece' in John Heilbron's words. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented telescope - of the craters of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-10-14
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Just over four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a 'hurried little masterpiece' in John Heilbron's words. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented telescope - of the craters of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-10-14
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Radio telescopes as well as communication antennas operate under the influence of gravity, temperature and wind. Among those, temperature influences may degrade the performance of a radio telescope through transient changes of the focus, pointing, path length and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-03-17
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