Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods books

1928 books were found.

Dynamics of Young Star Clusters and Associations: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 42. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy

Dynamics of Young Star Clusters and Associations: Saas-Fee...

Author: Cathie Clarke ,  Robert D. Mathieu
ISBN: 9783662514603
Format: Paperback
$168.16

"Where do most stars (and the planetary systems that surround them) in the Milky Way form? What determines whether...  Read More >>

Development of Coherent Detector Technologies for Sub-Millimetre Wave Astronomy Observations

Development of Coherent Detector Technologies for Sub-Millimetre...

Author: Boon Kok Tan
ISBN: 9783319373188
Format: Paperback
$206.97

The thesis describes the development of receiver technologies for sub-millimetre astronomy instruments, focusing...  Read More >>

Scientific Detectors for Astronomy 2005: Explorers of the Photon Odyssey

Scientific Detectors for Astronomy 2005: Explorers of...

Author: Jenna E. Beletic ,  James W. Beletic
ISBN: 9789401776394
Format: Paperback
$442.46

The 2005 meeting in Taormina, Italy was attended by 127 professionals who develop and use the highest quality detectors...  Read More >>

Cross-Calibration of Far UV Spectra of Solar System Objects and the Heliosphere

Cross-Calibration of Far UV Spectra of Solar System...

Author: Eric Quémerais ,  Martin Snow
ISBN: 9781493947096
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book is the result of a working group sponsored by ISSI in Bern, which was initially created to study possible...  Read More >>

Terraforming: The Creating of Habitable Worlds

Terraforming: The Creating of Habitable Worlds

Author: Martin Beech
ISBN: 9781493939145
Format: Paperback
$100.29

This fascinating book proposes a sound and realistic exploration on the topic of terraforming. The book presents...  Read More >>

The Earth as a Distant Planet: A Rosetta Stone for the Search of Earth-Like Worlds

The Earth as a Distant Planet: A Rosetta Stone for the...

Author: M. Vázquez ,  E. Pallé
ISBN: 9781493950607
Format: Paperback
$290.37

In The Earth as a Distant Planet, the authors become external observers of our solar system from a distance and...  Read More >>

Nulling Interferometers for Space-based High-Contrast Visible Imaging and Measurement of Exoplanetary Environments

Nulling Interferometers for Space-based High-Contrast...

Author: Brian Hicks
ISBN: 9781493954568
Format: Paperback
$290.37

The state of the art in high-contrast imaging systems that have been built for space-based observation, the environment...  Read More >>

Ice, Rock, and Beauty: A Visual Tour of the New Solar System

Ice, Rock, and Beauty: A Visual Tour of the New Solar...

Author: C. Murray ,  David Brodie
ISBN: 9781493950560
Format: Paperback
$100.29

Imaging techniques from Earth continue to improve, while missions such as Voyager, Galileo and the Hubble Space...  Read More >>

Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon’s Motion (1691-1757)

Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the...

Author: John M. Steele
ISBN: 9781493943616
Format: Paperback
$290.37

The discovery of a gradual acceleration in the moon’s mean motion by Edmond Halley in the last decade of the seventeenth...  Read More >>

Physics, Formation and Evolution of Rotating Stars

Physics, Formation and Evolution of Rotating Stars

Author: Andre Maeder
ISBN: 9783662518588
Format: Paperback
$413.97

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Scientific Ballooning: Technology and Applications of Exploration Balloons Floating in the Stratosphere and the Atmospheres of Other Planets

Scientific Ballooning: Technology and Applications of...

Author: Nobuyuki Yajima ,  Naoki Izutsu
ISBN: 9781493950874
Format: Paperback
$527.97

The aim of this book is to introduce scientific ballooning to the many people who are interested in the use of balloons...  Read More >>

Spectroscopic Instrumentation: Fundamentals and Guidelines for Astronomers

Spectroscopic Instrumentation: Fundamentals and Guidelines...

Author: Thomas Eversberg ,  Klaus Vollmann
ISBN: 9783662511527
Format: Paperback
$194.04

Today they can be done using self-designed spectrographs and highly efficient CCD cameras, without the need for...  Read More >>

Tools of Radio Astronomy

Tools of Radio Astronomy

Author: Thomas L. Wilson ,  Kristen Rohlfs
ISBN: 9783662517321
Format: Paperback
$181.10

This 6th edition of “Tools of Radio Astronomy”, the most used introductory text in radio astronomy, has been revised...  Read More >>

A Survey of the Almagest: With Annotation and New Commentary by Alexander Jones

A Survey of the Almagest: With Annotation and New Commentary...

Author: Olaf Pedersen ,  Alexander Jones
ISBN: 9781493939220
Format: Paperback
$343.17

The Almagest , by the Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, is the most important surviving treatise on early...  Read More >>

The Multi-Messenger Approach to High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources: Third Workshop on the Nature of Unidentified High-Energy Sources

The Multi-Messenger Approach to High-Energy Gamma-Ray...

Author: Josep M. Paredes ,  Olaf Reimer
ISBN: 9789401776486
Format: Paperback
$413.97

This book provides a theoretical and observational overview of the state of the art of gamma-ray astrophysics, and...  Read More >>

Breakthrough!: 100 Astronomical Images That Changed the World

Breakthrough!: 100 Astronomical Images That Changed...

Author: Robert Gendler ,  R. Jay GaBany
ISBN: 9783319360355
Format: Paperback
$85.36

This unique volume by two renowned astrophotographers unveils the science and history behind 100 of the most significant...  Read More >>

The Hatfield SCT Lunar Atlas: Photographic Atlas for Meade, Celestron, and Other SCT Telescopes: A Digitally Re-Mastered Edition

The Hatfield SCT Lunar Atlas: Photographic Atlas for...

Author: Anthony Cook
ISBN: 9781493938261
Format: Paperback
$158.37

The new, digitally re-mastered second edition vastly improves the clarity and definition of the original photographs...  Read More >>

From Suns to Life: A Chronological Approach to the History of Life on Earth

From Suns to Life: A Chronological Approach to the History...

Author: Muriel Gargaud ,  Philippe Claeys
ISBN: 9781493938858
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This review emerged from several interdisciplinary meetings and schools gathering a group of astronomers, geologists,...  Read More >>

Galaxy Formation

Galaxy Formation

Author: Malcolm S. Longair
ISBN: 9783662495797
Format: Paperback
$142.29

Many of the agonies which had to be gone through in the rst edition have disappeared and, to many people’s amazement,...  Read More >>

The Starlight Night: The Sky in the Writings of Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Hopkins

The Starlight Night: The Sky in the Writings of Shakespeare,...

Author: David H. Levy
ISBN: 9783319371016
Format: Paperback
$310.47

Although the sky enters into much of literature through the ages, British authors offer an especially fertile connection...  Read More >>

The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water

The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites...

Author: Gunter Faure ,  Teresa M. Mensing
ISBN: 9789402404807
Format: Paperback
$388.10

This book presents a summary of the geology of the Transantarctic Mountains for Earth scientists who may want to...  Read More >>

The Earliest Stages of Massive Clustered Star Formation: Fragmentation of Infrared Dark Clouds

The Earliest Stages of Massive Clustered Star Formation:...

Author: Ke Wang
ISBN: 9783662524282
Format: Paperback
$194.04

This thesis presents an in-depth, high-resolution observational study on the very beginning of the formation process:...  Read More >>

101 Optical Telescope Designs: for Amateur and Professional Astronomers

101 Optical Telescope Designs: for Amateur and Professional...

Author: Mark Ackermann
ISBN: 9781441984401
Format: Paperback
$69.84

101 Optical Telescope Designs is about optical telescope designs. It isn't about how to build a telescope, nor aberration...  Read More >>

La correspondance entre Henri Poincaré, les astronomes, et les géodésiens

La correspondance entre Henri Poincaré, les astronomes,...

Author: Scott A. Walter ,  Philippe Nabonnand
ISBN: 9783764371678
Format: Hardback
$451.95

La correspondance de Poincaré éditée et annotée dans ce volume concerne, au-delà des mémoires mathématiques, l'activité...  Read More >>

A Practical Guide to Lightcurve Photometry and Analysis

A Practical Guide to Lightcurve Photometry and Analysis...

Author: Brian D. Warner
ISBN: 9783319327495
Format: Paperback
$129.35

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