COMPLETE COURSE IN PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY
COMPLETE COURSE IN PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY

Author: Marcel Souza

Publisher: Gavea

Published:

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13:

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Embark on a fascinating journey through the universe with the "Complete Course in Practical Astronomy." This comprehensive guide is designed for both beginners and experienced stargazers, providing you with all the tools and knowledge you need to explore the night sky. Delve into the fundamentals of astronomy, including celestial coordinates, the movement of planets, stars, and galaxies, and the principles of light and optics. This course offers practical insights into using telescopes, binoculars, and other observational equipment, ensuring you can fully appreciate the wonders of the cosmos. With detailed explanations, illustrations, and step-by-step instructions, this book will guide you through various astronomical phenomena, from eclipses and meteor showers to deep-sky observations. Learn how to navigate the night sky, identify constellations, and track celestial events with precision. Whether you're setting up your first telescope or refining your observational skills, the "Complete Course in Practical Astronomy" equips you with the expertise to become a proficient amateur astronomer. Discover the beauty of the universe and unlock the secrets of the stars, all from the comfort of your backyard. Prepare to be captivated by the awe-inspiring wonders of space as you embark on this exciting astronomical adventure.

Practical Astronomy with your Calculator
Practical Astronomy with your Calculator

Author: Peter Duffett-Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-02-02

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1139935798

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Practical Astronomy with your Calculator, first published in 1979, has enjoyed immense success. The author's clear and easy to follow routines enable you to solve a variety of practical and recreational problems in astronomy using a scientific calculator. Mathematical complexity is kept firmly in the background, leaving just the elements necessary for swiftly making calculations. The major topics are: time, coordinate systems, the Sun, the planetary system, binary stars, the Moon, and eclipses. In the third edition there are entirely new sections on generalised coordinate transformations, nutrition, aberration, and selenographic coordinates. The calculations for sunrise and moonrise are improved. A larger page size has increased the clarity of the presentation. This handbook is essential for anyone who needs to make astronomical calculations. It will be enjoyed by amateur astronomers and appreciated by students studying introductory astronomy. • Clear presentation • Reliable approximations • Covers orbits, transformations, and general celestial phenomena • Can be used anywhere, worldwide • Routines extensively tested by thousands of readers round the world

Practical Astronomy with your Calculator or Spreadsheet
Practical Astronomy with your Calculator or Spreadsheet

Author: Peter Duffett-Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-07-06

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9781108436076

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Now in its fourth edition, this highly regarded book is ideal for those who wish to solve a variety of practical and recreational problems in astronomy using a scientific calculator or spreadsheet. Updated and extended, this new edition shows you how to use spreadsheets to predict, with greater accuracy, solar and lunar eclipses, the positions of the planets, and the times of sunrise and sunset. Suitable for worldwide use, this handbook covers orbits, transformations and general celestial phenomena, and is essential for anyone wanting to make astronomical calculations for themselves. With clear, easy-to-follow instructions for use with a pocket calculator, shown alongside worked examples, it can be enjoyed by anyone interested in astronomy, and will be a useful tool for software writers and students studying introductory astronomy. High-precision spreadsheet methods for greater accuracy are available at www.cambridge.org/practicalastronomy

Deep Sky Observing
Deep Sky Observing

Author: Steve R. Coe

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2000-08-16

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781852336271

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Steve Coe has been watching the deep sky from locations near his home in Arizona for almost 20 years. During that time he has accumulated a wealth of knowledge, observations, hints and tips that will help every deep sky observer, regardless of experience. This, his first book, gives detailed practical advice about how to find the best observing site, how to make the most of the time spent there, and what equipment and instruments to take along. There are comprehensive lists of deep sky objects of all kinds, along with Steve's own observations describing how they look through telescopes with apertures ranging from 8 to 36 inches (0.2 - 0.9 m). Most of all, this book is all about how to enjoy astronomy. Steve's enthusiasm and sense of wonder shine through every page as he invites you along on a tour of some of the most beautiful and fascinating sites in the deep sky.

Observer’s Guide to Star Clusters
Observer’s Guide to Star Clusters

Author: Mike Inglis

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-07-20

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1461475678

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Amateur astronomers of all expertise from beginner to experienced will find this a thorough star cluster atlas perfect for easy use at the telescope or through binoculars. It enables practical observers to locate the approximate positions of objects in the sky, organized by constellation. This book was specifically designed as an atlas and written for easy use in field conditions. The maps are in black-and-white so that they can be read by the light of a red LED observer’s reading light. The clusters and their names/numbers are printed in bold black, against a “grayed-out” background of stars and constellation figures. To be used as a self-contained reference, the book provides the reader with detailed and up-to-date coverage of objects visible with small-, medium-, and large-aperture telescopes, and is equally useful for simple and computer-controlled telescopes. In practice, GO-TO telescopes can usually locate clusters accurately enough to be seen in a low-magnification eyepiece, but this of course first requires that the observer knows what is visible in the sky at a given time and from a given location, so as to input a locatable object. This is where "The Observer's Guide to Star Clusters" steps in as an essential aid to finding star clusters to observe and an essential piece of equipment for all amateur astronomers.

Photo-guide to the Constellations
Photo-guide to the Constellations

Author: C. R. Kitchin

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1447106113

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"l hope that people all around the world never forget what a wonderful thing it is to lie on your back and look up at the stars" Pete Seeger What is the fascination that constellations hold for people? There are probably as many different answers to that question as there are people. For many, though, the constella tions are the stepping-off point into the fabulous, mind-bending discoveries and concepts of modern astronomy. For others it is their long and intriguing history that beckons. For some people the constellations provide the means for navigation and orientation over the surface of the Earth, and of course there are the millions who place some faith in horo scopes. But for most people the patterns in the sky are a beautiful part of their environ ment to be treasured alongside the forests, fields and rivers that make life worth living. However just as we are losing our green environment to pollution, so we are losing our sky. The glow from cities across the world swamps the stars in the night sky. Astronomers have had to retreat to remote mountain tops to escape that light pollution. The rest of us must make do with what is available. From the centre of a city, or any other brightly lit area, probably no stars at all will be visible even on the clearest of nights. From the suburbs, the brighter stars should normally be seen.

Observing the Moon
Observing the Moon

Author: Peter T. Wlasuk

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1447104838

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Why write another guide to observing the Moon? That was the question I was pondering as I began this project, having a fine collection of "classic" lunar guidebooks dating back to 1791 in my own library. As a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), member of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences (AAS DPS), and member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), I am fortunate to know many pro fessionallunar scientists who keep me up to date with developments in lunar scienc- contrary to public perception, lunar science has definitely not stagnated since the last Apollo, No. 17, left the surface of the Moon in December, 1972. I am also lucky to know many amateur lunar observers, who, like me, enjoy actually looking at the Moon with tele scopes and imaging it with a wide variety of devices ranging from regular 35 mm cameras to video recorders and CCD cameras. My friends who study the Moon, whether in their professions or just for fun, gave me several reasons for doing "another" lunar guidebook. First, the last lunar observer's guide of any length was published over ten years ago, and many reviewers noted that it was badly out of date even then.