Hunting and Imaging Comets
Of all the objects visible in the night sky, it is the brightest comets that have most fascinated amateur astronomers and alarmed the human population. No other objects can stretch as far across the sky as the tail of a truly great comet, or be as easily visible as a zero-magnitude 'broom star....
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Language: | Anglais |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York
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Cham : Springer Nature |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2011. |
| Series: | The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
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| Online Access: | 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: | • Hunting and Imaging Comets, Texte imprimé, 9781441969040 • Hunting and Imaging Comets, Texte imprimé, 9781441969064 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface Acknowledgments Comets, Their Orbits, and Where They Hide! Great Comet Discoveries Throughout History Professional 21st Century Comet Hunters Amateur 21st Century Comet Hunters Finding the Next Hale-Bopp with Your Gear Comets That Have Been Missed by the Pros Recovering Returning Periodic Comets Discovering Comets Using SOHO Following the NEOS that Might Become Comets Monitoring Outbursting Comets Comet Imaging Techniques Lenses, Telescopes, Astrographs, and Mountings Imaging Comets Remotely and via the Internet Comet Photometry A Few of the World's Keenest Comet Imagers Comet Resources Index.