Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods books

2002 books were found.

Post-Hipparcos Cosmic Candles

Post-Hipparcos Cosmic Candles

Author: Andre Heck ,  F. Caputo
ISBN: 9789401059909
Format: Paperback
$290.37

In May 1976, when one of us was temporarily associated with Stras­ bourg Observatory for lecturing on distance determination...  Read More >>

High-Energy Physics and Cosmology: Celebrating the Impact of 25 Years of Coral Gables Conferences

High-Energy Physics and Cosmology: Celebrating the Impact...

Author: Behram N. Kursunogammalu ,  Stephan L. Mintz
ISBN: 9781461374640
Format: Paperback
$145.17

The list includes, just to name a few: Julian Schwinger, Robert Oppenheimer, Lars Onsager, Robert Hofstater, Abdus...  Read More >>

QSO Hosts and Their Environments

QSO Hosts and Their Environments

Author: Isabel Márquez ,  Josefa Masegosa
ISBN: 9781461351993
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Advanced technologies in astronomy at various wavelengths have provided us with high resolution and high quality...  Read More >>

The Impact of Long-Term Monitoring on Variable Star Research: Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Data Handling, Archiving

The Impact of Long-Term Monitoring on Variable Star...

Author: C. Sterken ,  Mart de Groot
ISBN: 9789401045070
Format: Paperback
$580.77

Long-term monitoring is of fundamental significance in solving many important problems in astrophysics and, furthermore,...  Read More >>

Le costellazioni al binocolo: Trecento oggetti celesti da riconoscere ed esplorare

Le costellazioni al binocolo: Trecento oggetti celesti...

Author: Bojan Kambic
ISBN: 9788847027084
Format: Paperback
$118.77

Nella seconda parte, vengono proposte mappe per riconoscere tutte le costellazioni visibili dai nostri cieli, e...  Read More >>

The Freja Mission

The Freja Mission

Author: Rickard Lundin ,  Gerhard Haerendel
ISBN: 9789401041324
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Freja is a joint Swedish and German satellite, launched on October 6, 1992 and orbiting at 600--1750 km, covering...  Read More >>

Infrared and Submillimeter Space Missions in the Coming Decade: Programmes, Programmatics, and Technology

Infrared and Submillimeter Space Missions in the Coming...

Author: Harley A. Thronson Jr. ,  Marc Sauvage
ISBN: 9789401041621
Format: Paperback
$448.77

A revolution similar to that brought by CCDs to visible astronomy is still ahead in IR and submillimeter astronomy....  Read More >>

Interferometry in Radioastronomy and Radar Techniques

Interferometry in Radioastronomy and Radar Techniques...

Author: R. Wohlleben ,  H. Mattes
ISBN: 9789401056465
Format: Paperback
$290.37

In recent years aperture synthesis and interferometry have become very powerful tools in radioastronomy. Radar...  Read More >>

New Advances in Celestial Mechanics and Hamiltonian Systems: HAMSYS-2001

New Advances in Celestial Mechanics and Hamiltonian...

Author: Joaquín Delgado ,  Ernesto A. Lacomba
ISBN: 9781461347781
Format: Paperback
$448.77

The aim of the IV International Symposium on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics, HAMSYS-2001 was to join...  Read More >>

The Chemistry of Life’s Origins

The Chemistry of Life’s Origins

Author: J. Mayo Greenberg ,  C.X. Mendoza-Gómez
ISBN: 9789401048569
Format: Paperback
$871.17

Much progress has been made since the amazingly perceptive contributions by Oparin some 70 years ago when he first...  Read More >>

The Cluster and Phoenix Missions

The Cluster and Phoenix Missions

Author: C.P. Escoubet ,  R. Schmidt
ISBN: 9789401063890
Format: Paperback
$465.72

Cluster was one of the two missions - the other being the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) - constituting...  Read More >>

Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy: Volume III

Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy: Volume III...

Author: Andre Heck
ISBN: 9789401039321
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Not everybody knows that the scheduling of the Hubble Space Telescope is performed by a neural­ network software...  Read More >>

Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy

Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy

Author: Andre Heck
ISBN: 9789401037938
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Reorganising the research activities after the war was no minor under­ taking, specially because communications...  Read More >>

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission

Author: C.T. Russell
ISBN: 9789401061896
Format: Paperback
$336.35

Describes the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission, its instruments, investigation plans and data center. This...  Read More >>

The Search for Extra-Solar Terrestrial Planets: Techniques and Technology: Proceedings of a Conference held in Boulder, Colorado, May 14–17, 1995

The Search for Extra-Solar Terrestrial Planets: Techniques...

Author: J.M. Shull ,  Harley A. Thronson Jr.
ISBN: 9789401064538
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Proceedings of a Conference held in Boulder, CO on May 14-17, 1995  Read More >>

Next Generation Infrared Space Observatory

Next Generation Infrared Space Observatory

Author: S.J. Bell Burnell ,  J.K. Davies
ISBN: 9789401051866
Format: Paperback
$448.77

Infrared astronomy has undergone an enormous revolution during the last decade. This volume contains the refereed...  Read More >>

The FAST Mission

The FAST Mission

Author: Robert F. Pfaff Jr.
ISBN: 9789401038478
Format: Paperback
$290.37

The fields experiments (electric and magnetic) were constructed by the University of California at Berke­ ley (UCB),...  Read More >>

Compact Stars: Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics, and General Relativity

Compact Stars: Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics, and...

Author: Norman K. Glendenning
ISBN: 9781461270454
Format: Paperback
$263.97

The book develops a theory for the constitution of neutron stars and the more exotic Hyperon Stars, Hybrid Stars...  Read More >>

Impact Spectropolarimetric Sensing

Impact Spectropolarimetric Sensing

Author: Sergi Kazantsev ,  Natalia M. Firstova
ISBN: 9781461371946
Format: Paperback
$580.77

This book arises from the significant quantity of original results in the field of impact spectropolarimetry, mainly...  Read More >>

The Nature of Unidentified Galactic High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources: Proceedings of the Workshop held at Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico, 9-11 October 2000

The Nature of Unidentified Galactic High-Energy Gamma-Ray...

Author: Alberto Carramiñana ,  Olaf Reimer
ISBN: 9789401038751
Format: Paperback
$580.77

The Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) instru­ ment on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory left as a...  Read More >>

Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy: Volume 4

Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy: Volume 4...

Author: Andre Heck
ISBN: 9789401039895
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Only by creativity in developing new techniques for radio noise (including legal transmissions) reduction and by...  Read More >>

The Theory of Cosmic Grains

The Theory of Cosmic Grains

Author: N.C. Wickramasinghe ,  B. Hoyle
ISBN: 9789401055055
Format: Paperback
$448.77

Light scattering and absorption by small homogeneous particles can be worked-out exactly for spheres and infinite...  Read More >>

Physics, Cosmology and Astronomy, 1300–1700: Tension and Accommodation

Physics, Cosmology and Astronomy, 1300–1700: Tension...

Author: Sabetai Unguru
ISBN: 9789401054768
Format: Paperback
$448.77

Habent sua Jata colloquia. The present volume has its ongms in a spring 1984 international workshop held, under...  Read More >>

Super-Intelligent Machines

Super-Intelligent Machines

Author: Bill Hibbard
ISBN: 9781461352273
Format: Paperback
$290.37

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