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  title info:
    title: Astronomical Discoveries You Can Make, Too!
    sub title: Replicating the Work of the Great Observers
  name:
    name part: Buchheim, Robert K.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 549 p. 168 illus., 122 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: You too can follow in the steps of the great astronomers such as Hipparchus, Galileo, Kepler and Hubble, who all contributed so much to our modern understanding of the cosmos. This book gives the student or amateur astronomer the following tools to replicate some of these seminal observations from their own homes: With your own eyes: Use your own observations and measurements to discover and confirm the phenomena of the seasons, the analemma and the equation of time, the logic behind celestial coordinates, and even the precession of the equinoxes. With a consumer-grade digital camera: Record the changing brightness of an eclipsing binary star and show that a pulsating star changes color as it brightens and dims. Add an inexpensive diffraction grating to your camera and see the variety of spectral features in the stars, and demonstrate that the Sun’s spectrum is similar to one particular type of stellar spectrum. With a backyard telescope: Add a CCD imager and you can measure the scale of the Solar System and the distance to a nearby star. You could even measure the distance to another galaxy and observe the cosmological redshift of the expanding universe. Astronomical Discoveries You Can Make, Too! doesn’t just tell you about the development of astronomy; it shows you how to discover for yourself the essential features of the universe.
  table of contents: Part I: Motions and Positions in the Sky -- Chapter 1: The Stars, the Sidereal and Solar Day, and the Seasons -- Chapter 2: Measuring Position and Describing Motion -- Part 2: The Moon -- Chapter 3: Introducing Earth's Satellite -- Chapter 4: The Moon in Three Dimensions, Occultations, and Parallax -- Chapter 5: The Moon’s Surface -- Part III: The Planets -- Chapter 6: Solar System Orbits -- Chapter 7: Planetary Phases and Moons -- Chapter 8: Scale and Light -- Part IV: The Stars -- Chapter 9: Observing Variable Stars -- Chapter 10: Barnard’s Star and the Copernican Model -- Part V: Astrophysics and Cosmology -- Chapter 11: Stellar Spectroscopy -- Chapter 12: Chapter 12: Solar Spectroscopy and the H-R Diagram -- Chapter 13: Our Galactic Neighbors -- Appendices.
  note: by Robert K. Buchheim.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9783319156606
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15660-6
  record info:
    record creation date: 150512
    record change date: 20151123194556.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-15660-6