Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods books

Generally speaking, we might say that the commonly accepted ""Modern Text­ book"" of ancient and medieval European,...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Large Telescopes, held in Tokyo, Japan, November 29-December 2, 1988...  Read More >>

The author explains and organizes the material through a systematic study of generating families, which are the...  Read More >>

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the current observational and theoretical status in the field of the...  Read More >>

One of the great problems of astrophysics is the unanswered question about the origin and mechanism of chromospheric...  Read More >>

The classical restricted three-body problem is of fundamental importance because of its applications in astronomy...  Read More >>

Satellite Orbits -Models, Methods, and Applications has been written as a compre­ hensive textbook that guides the...  Read More >>

A number of introductory chapters provide a general overview, which makes the book accessible also to non-specialists...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the 97th Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Brussels, Belgium, June 8-13,...  Read More >>

All readers missing such a presentation are reminded that up-to­ date in-depth information about the VLT status...  Read More >>

At that meeting, the four of us collectively decided that the time was ripe for an even more focussed discussion...  Read More >>

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Although the field is rapidly changing, with so-called facts in a state ofconstant volubility, now is a good time...  Read More >>

IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration) is the first NASA MIDEX mission and the first mission...  Read More >>

Pascal programmes for various astronomical problems are available on the floppy disk that accompanies the book....  Read More >>

Pulsar timing is a promising method for detecting gravitational waves in the nano-Hertz band. In his prize winning...  Read More >>

Whereas conventional maps can be expressed as outward-expanding formulae with well-defined central features and...  Read More >>

Astronomical guides were available in the early nineteenth century, but it was rare to find examples in English...  Read More >>

This volume is concerned essentially with the modern developments in reflecting telescope optics. Other subjects...  Read More >>

A valuable reference that fills a number of niches including that of a buyer's guide, technical desk reference and...  Read More >>

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Spherical astronomy is concerned with the location of objects on the celestial sphere. In this technical introduction...  Read More >>

This book details the methods and practices of visual amateur astronomy and explains how to produce an accurate...  Read More >>

“Binocular Astronomy”, 2nd edition, extends its coverage of small and medium binoculars to large and giant (i.e.,...  Read More >>

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