Astronomical Discoveries You Can Make, Too! : Replicating the Work of the Great Observers
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015
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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 ...; [leggi tutto]
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| Descrizione | Astronomical Discoveries You Can Make, Too! : Replicating the Work of the Great Observers / by Robert K. Buchheim. - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015. - XIII, 549 p. 168 ill., 122 ill. in color ; online resource. - (Springer Praxis Books) |
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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. - Springer eBooks. - Printed edition: 9783319156590
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