Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Argyle, Bob (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2004.
• Series: Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series,
• Subjects: Physics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

Double stars are the rule, rather than the exception: our solar system, having a single sun, is in the minority. Orbiting satellites, ground-based observatories and interferometers have all helped discover many hundreds of new pairs - but this has left enormous numbers of wide, faint pairs under-obs...