Astronomy category: 2403 books
by Roland Bacon, Guy Monnet
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Over the last 50 years, a variety of techniques have been developed to add a third dimension to regular imaging, with an extended spectrum associated to every imaging pixel. Dubbed 3D spectroscopy from its data format, it is now widely used in the astrophysical domain, but also inter alia for atmospheric...
Telescopes and Techniques
An Introduction to Practical Astronomy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The modern aspiring astronomer is faced with a bewil dering choice of commercially produced telescopes, including all the designs considered in the preceding chapter. Yet only four decades ago the choice for a small telescope would have been between just a refrac tor and a Newtonian reflector....
Astronomy of the Milky Way
The Observer’s Guide to the Southern Sky
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
This second edition of Mike Inglis's classic guide to observing the Milky Way in the Southern Hemisphere updates all of the science about the target objects with new findings from the astrophysics field. In addition, the book boasts a larger format with entirely re-drawn maps. Newly laid out for ease...
Astronomy of the Milky Way
The Observer’s Guide to the Northern Sky
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
This is the first of a two-volume set that deal with the entire Milky Way. This first volume looks at what can be seen predominantly from the Northern Skies. In addition to the descriptive text, there are many star charts and maps, as well as the latest up-to-date images made by observatories around the world and in space, as well as images taken by amateur astronomers.
Bayesian Methods for the Physical Sciences
Learning from Examples in Astronomy and Physics
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Statistical literacy is critical for the modern researcher in Physics and Astronomy. This book empowers researchers in these disciplines by providing the tools they will need to analyze their own data. Chapters in this book provide a statistical base from which to approach new problems, including...
The Square Kilometre Array: Paving the way for the new 21st century radio astronomy paradigm
Proceedings of Symposium 7 of JENAM 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
: The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will provide more than one order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity compared with any existing radio telescope over a wavelength range of several hundred to one, from decametric to microwave wavelengths. It will revolutionize the study of the most abundant element...
by Marion Dolan
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This carefully researched monograph is a historical investigation of the illustrated Aratea astronomical manuscript and its many interpretations over the centuries. Aratus' 270 B.C.E. Greek poem describing the constellations and astrological phenomena was translated and copied over 800 years...
by R.H. Frater, W.M. Goss, H.W. Wendt
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
This is the story of Bernie Mills, Chris Christiansen, Paul Wild and Ron Bracewell, members of a team of radio astronomers that would lead Australia, and the world, into this new field of research. Each of the four is remembered for his remarkable work: Mills for the development the cross type instrument...
Finding a Million-Star Hotel
An Astro-Tourist’s Guide to Dark Sky Places
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Bob Mizon, one of the world’s best known campaigners against the veil of light pollution that has taken away the starry sky from most of the world’s population, takes readers to a hundred places in the UK and the USA where the wonders of the night sky might still be enjoyed in perfect or near-perfect...
Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth
Using Astronomy to Solve More Mysteries in Art, History, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
From the author of "Celestial Sleuth" (2014), yet more mysteries in art, history, and literature are solved by calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects in paintings. In addition to helping to crack difficult cases,...
The Great Canoes in the Sky
Starlore and Astronomy of the South Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Presenting spectacular photographs of astronomical objects of the southern sky, all taken by author Stephen Chadwick, this book explores what peoples of the South Pacific see when they look up at the heavens and what they have done with this knowledge. From wives killing brothers to emus rising out...
Heavenly Errors
Misconceptions About the Real Nature of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2001
One of the great paradoxes of modern times is that the more scientists understand the natural world, the more we discover that our everyday beliefs about it are wrong. Astronomy, in particular, is one of the most misunderstood scientific disciplines.
With the participation of thousands of undergraduate...
Created Cosmos, The
What the Bible Reveals About Astronomy
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This text investigates what the Bible has to say about astronomical objects and phenomena. The Bible contains many mentions of astronomical things, beginning with creation and concluding with end-time prophecies. Besides the sun and moon, the Bible names groups of stars, Orion, the Pleiades, and the...
by Gaston Tissandier
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
A learned mathematician of the seventeenth century, Ozanam by name, a member of the Academy of Sciences and author of several distinguished works, did not think it derogatory to his dignity to write, under the title of "Mathematical and Physical Recreations," a book designed for the amusement of youth,...