Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods books

This edited volume presents the current state of gas accretion studies from both observational and theoretical perspectives,...  Read More >>

The book illustrates core stability on the “virial plane”, in which core stability is plotted against core confinement...  Read More >>

English summary: The 8th International Workshop on Planetary, Solar and Heliospheric Radio Emissions was held...  Read More >>

This volume contains selected and expanded contributions presented at the 3rd Symposium on Space Optical Instruments...  Read More >>

This book comprises a fascinating collection of contributions on the Merz telescopes in Italy that collectively...  Read More >>

Related techniques are introduced, including intensity interferometry, optical interferometry, lunar occultations,...  Read More >>

This fascinating portrait of an amateur astronomy movement tells the story of how Charles Olivier recruited a hard-working...  Read More >>

In his PhD dissertation Martin Bo Nielsen performs observational studies of rotation in stars like the Sun. The...  Read More >>

This important book describes the basic principles of astrochemistry—an interdisciplinary field combining astronomy,...  Read More >>

The book will be of particular interest to scholars engaged in the study of Islamic theoretical astronomy, but is...  Read More >>

Presenting spectacular photographs of astronomical objects of the southern sky, all taken by author Stephen Chadwick,...  Read More >>

This book comprises 26 articles on the EChO science cases, mission pre-assessment and assessment, phase-studies,...  Read More >>

NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is a four-spacecraft Solar Terrestrial Probe mission to study magnetic...  Read More >>

Radio astronomy was born during the Second World War, but as this book explains, the history of early Dutch radio...  Read More >>

This book develops a general approach that can be systematically refined to investigate the statics and dynamics...  Read More >>

This monograph traces the development of our understanding of how and where energetic particles are accelerated...  Read More >>

This textbook presents the established sciences of optical, infrared, and radio astronomy as distinct research areas,...  Read More >>

This textbook presents ultraviolet and X-ray astronomy, gamma-ray astronomy, cosmic ray astronomy, neutrino astronomy,...  Read More >>

I can recommend it unconditionally… Elena Prestini… has taken one major mathematical idea, that of Fourier analysis,...  Read More >>

Based on extensive primary sources, many never previously translated into English, this is the definitive account...  Read More >>

Why and when did ancient scholars make the enormous effort to understand the principles and master the mathematics...  Read More >>

This book offers an essential compendium of astronomical high-resolution techniques. Recent years have seen considerable...  Read More >>

Detecting the weak cosmological radiation emitted billions of years ago, from the time of the first 'stars', is...  Read More >>

An asteroid scholar, Cunningham in this book picks up where his Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres left off...  Read More >>

From unicorns on the Moon to UFOs piloted by Martian bees, this book chronicles some of the strangest ideas that...  Read More >>