Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods books

"Catalogues the astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum collection. This book includes accompanying essays written...  Read More >>

By focusing on the history of the Gemini Observatory—twin 8-meter telescopes located on mountain peaks in Hawaii...  Read More >>

The dark matter problem is a profoundly difficult to solve problem in the history of science. This book tells the...  Read More >>

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

Includes tools for amateur astronomers who wish to go beyond CCD imaging and step into 'serious' science. This title...  Read More >>

Examines the major constellations, offering tales of the mythology surrounding them and detailing their seasonal...  Read More >>

Written in a folksy style, this user-friendly guide to the night sky is designed for beginner and intermediate stargazers,...  Read More >>

The main purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the subject of solar activity and the connection with...  Read More >>

Stars are born and die in clouds of gas and dust, opaque to most types of radiation, but transparent in the infrared....  Read More >>

In the initial 3-year phase of the research programme (2002-2004), new gravity ?eld models have been computed from...  Read More >>

Offers reviews of detectors and spectrographs. This book addresses ways to handle photons, based on quantum physics....  Read More >>

Includes two reviews about wavefront processing and about image restoration and deconvolution algorithms for ill...  Read More >>

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Traces the impact of Einstein's ideas on astronomy, including the way we interpret observations of stars and galaxies....  Read More >>

Deals with the complex concepts of relativity and the stimulated emission of light. This title tells the remarkable...  Read More >>

Covers a range of subjects, covering the developments in Celestial Mechanics from the theoretical point of nonlinear...  Read More >>

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Project is a global project to design and c- struct a revolutionary new radio telescope...  Read More >>

In the years since The Art and Science of CCD Astronomy was ?rst published, digital imaging has been transformed...  Read More >>

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Deep Impact, or at least part of the flight system, is designed to crash into comet 9P/Tempel 1. This bold mission...  Read More >>

During the past several years, research teams around the world have developed astrophysics-relevant utilizing high...  Read More >>

Nearly all the information we know about the Universe comes from the study of light as it reaches us. The understanding...  Read More >>

Solar-type activity over the whole range of the electromagnetic spectrum is a phenomenon inherent in the majority...  Read More >>

Covering topics of radio astronomy, this book contains graduate-level problems with carefully presented solutions....  Read More >>

Modern astronomical telescopes, along with other advances in technology, have brought the deep sky – star clusters,...  Read More >>