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 by...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York
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Cham : Springer Nature |
| Edició: | 2nd ed. 2013. |
| Col·lecció: | The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
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| Accés en línia: | Accès sur la plateforme de l'éditeur Accès sur la plateforme Istex Accès Université d'Orléans Accès INSA CVL |
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Observing and measuring visual double stars, R. W. Argyle, editor, 2nd edition, New York, Springer, 2012, 1 vol. (XIV-419 p.), Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series, 978-1-4614-3944-8 • Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars, Texte imprimé, 9781461439462 |
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- 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