Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars
In these days of high-precision astrometric satellites, tremendous contributions to the science of astrometry are being made by amateur astronomers around the globe. This second edition of Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars contains a significant amount of completely new material inspired b...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Έκδοση: | Second Edition. |
| Σειρά: | Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series,
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1: More than one Sun
- Chapter 2: Why observe double stars?
- Chapter 3: The Observation of Binocular Double Stars
- Chapter 4: Double Star Sketching
- Chapter 5: Multiple stars and planets
- Chapter 6: Is the Sun a double star?
- Chapter 7: The orbital elements of a Visual Binary Star
- Chapter 8: Orbit computation
- Chapter 9: Ten famous double stars
- Chapter 10: The resolution of a telescope
- Chapter 11: Reflecting telescopes and double star astronomy
- Chapter 12: Simple techniques of measurement
- Chapter 13: Filar micrometer
- Chapter 14: The Diffraction Grating Micrometer
- Chapter 15: CCD Camera Observations
- Chapter 16: Lucky Imaging
- Chapter 17: The DSLR Camera
- Chapter 18: Astrometric Speckle Interferometry for the Amateur.-Chapter 19: Internet astrometry
- Chapter 20: How to measure the minima of eclipsing binaries; an amateur's experiences
- Chapter 21: Lunar Occultations
- Chapter 22: What the amateur can contribute
- Chapter 23: Some active amateur double star observers
- Chapter 24: An observing session
- Chapter 25: Some Useful Formulae
- Chapter 26: Star atlases and software
- Chapter 27: Catalogues
- Chapter 28: Publication of results
- Chapter 29: Brief biographies
- Chapter 30: References and Bibliography
- Index.
