Practical Astronomy with Your Calculator

Practical Astronomy with Your Calculator

Author: Peter Duffett-Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780521356992

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Using clear and logical routines, this book shows how a variety of problems and exercises in modern astronomy can be readily solved with a scientific calculator. This edition includes new sections on mutations, aberration and selenographic co-ordinates and


Sidereal Time

Sidereal Time

Author: Christopher Meredith

Publisher: Seren Books

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Clint and Dustin are coconuts, 10L have turned into three-toed sloths, Gron is becoming Zero Mostel, the lower sixth is an airliner of people about to fall out of the sky, and you, you've turned into a three-eyed Martian who speaks a nounless language and has forgotted to pay the child minder. But what's all this got to do with sixteenth century Ermland? It's an ordinary week in post-industrial south wales, and alienated desperation is as much fun as it's ever been. Sidereal Time, starting with the experiences of Sarah, a school teacher feeling the first intimations of middle age, explores the cussed paradox of the way life can be predictable and yet not follow any script you've prepared.