Star Identification

Star Identification

Author: Guangjun Zhang

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-23

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 3662537834

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This book summarizes the research advances in star identification that the author’s team has made over the past 10 years, systematically introducing the principles of star identification, general methods, key techniques and practicable algorithms. It also offers examples of hardware implementation and performance evaluation for the star identification algorithms. Star identification is the key step for celestial navigation and greatly improves the performance of star sensors, and as such the book include the fundamentals of star sensors and celestial navigation, the processing of the star catalog and star images, star identification using modified triangle algorithms, star identification using star patterns and using neural networks, rapid star tracking using star matching between adjacent frames, as well as implementation hardware and using performance tests for star identification. It is not only valuable as a reference book for star sensor designers and researchers working in pattern recognition and other related research fields, but also as teaching resource for senior postgraduate and graduate students majoring in information processing, computer science, artificial intelligence, aeronautics and astronautics, automation and instrumentation. Dr. Guangjun Zhang is a professor at the School of Instrumentation Science and Opto-electronics Engineering, Beihang University, China and also the Vice President of Beihang University, China


Optomechatronics

Optomechatronics

Author: Alexander W. Koch

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2018-10-09

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 3038420018

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Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Sensors


Starlight & Error

Starlight & Error

Author: Remica Bingham-Risher

Publisher: Diode Editions

Published: 2017-02-08

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 193972810X

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How do we save what’s coming? The love between two people, cut through by error and time, often marks the path for those who follow. In Starlight & Error, the legacies of love between aunts and uncles, mothers and fathers, children and their children’s children is re-told through the lens of imagined memory. In the difficult landscape of the present, is black love revolutionary? Are faith and forgiveness? Here, the history of love—fraught with fear and light, war and hunger, distance and gravity—is always asking: how do we transcend the mistakes of those who made us? Can music save us? Can the stars?


The Measurement of Starlight

The Measurement of Starlight

Author: J. B. Hearnshaw

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-05-02

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 9780521403931

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A well-illustrated historical survey of the science of measuring the brightness and colours of stars - for professional astronomers, amateur astronomers and historians of science.


Signal and Information Processing, Networking and Computers

Signal and Information Processing, Networking and Computers

Author: Yue Wang

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-12-17

Total Pages: 1104

ISBN-13: 9813341025

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This book collects selected papers from the 7th Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Networking and Computers held in Rizhao, China, on September 21-23, 2020. The 7th International Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Networking and Computers (ICSINC) was held in Rizhao, China, on September 21-23, 2020.


The Astrophotography Manual

The Astrophotography Manual

Author: Chris Woodhouse

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2015-05

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1317680154

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The Astrophotography Manual is for those photographers who aspire to move beyond using standard SLR cameras and editing software, and who are ready to create beautiful images of nebulas, galaxies, clusters, and the solar system. Beginning with a brief astronomy primer, this book takes readers through the full astrophotography process, from choosing and using equipment through image capture, calibration, and processing. This combination of technical background information and the hands-on approach brings the science down to earth with a practical method to plan for success. Features include: Over 400 images, graphs, and tables to illustrate these concepts A wide range of hardware to be used, including smartphones, tablets, and the latest mount technologies How to utilize a variety of leading software such as Maxim DL, Nebulosity, Sequence Generator Pro, Photoshop, and PixInsight Case studies showing how and when to use certain tools and overcoming technical challenges How sensor performance and light pollution relate to image quality and exposure planning


Advances in Guidance, Navigation and Control

Advances in Guidance, Navigation and Control

Author: Liang Yan

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-11-12

Total Pages: 5416

ISBN-13: 981158155X

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This book features the latest theoretical results and techniques in the field of guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) of vehicles and aircraft. It covers a range of topics, including, but not limited to, intelligent computing communication and control; new methods of navigation, estimation, and tracking; control of multiple moving objects; manned and autonomous unmanned systems; guidance, navigation, and control of miniature aircraft; and sensor systems for guidance, navigation, and control. Presenting recent advances in the form of illustrations, tables, and text, it also provides detailed information of a number of the studies, to offer readers insights for their own research. In addition, the book addresses fundamental concepts and studies in the development of GNC, making it a valuable resource for both beginners and researchers wanting to further their understanding of guidance, navigation, and control.


The Analysis of Starlight

The Analysis of Starlight

Author: J. B. Hearnshaw

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1990-04-19

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 9780521399166

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This book presents a detailed pedagogical account of the equation of state and its applications in several important and fast growing topics in theoretical physics, chemistry and engineering. This book is the storv of the analysis of starlight by astronomical spectroscopy. It describes the development of the subject from the time of Joseph Fraunhofer, who, in 1814, used a telescope-mounted prism to observe the spectral light emitted from several bright stars. He discovered that light was missing at certain colours (wavelengths) in the starlight, and these so-called spectral lines were subsequently shown to hold clues to the nature of the stars themselves. The book explains how the classification of stars using their line spectra developed into a major branch of astronomy whilst new methods in astrophysics made possible the approximate quantitative analysis of spectral lines in the 1920s and 1930s. After the Second World War these techniques were considerably improved when computers were programmed to model the structure of the outer layers of stars. Basic concepts in spectroscopy and spectral analysis are also covered and. finally. Dr Hearnshaw comments on the stellar spectroscopy of some individual star.


The Analysis of Starlight

The Analysis of Starlight

Author: John B. Hearnshaw

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-03-17

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1107031745

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A reference for astronomers and historians on astronomical spectroscopy, from the discovery of spectral lines through to the year 2000.