Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods books

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Rare Astronomical Sights and Sounds

Rare Astronomical Sights and Sounds

Author: Jonathan Powell
ISBN: 9783319977003
Format: Paperback
$64.66

From phenomena as old and far-off as a supernova witnessed a thousand years ago, and as recent and nearby as Sputnik's...  Read More >>

NightScenes: A Monthly Guide to the Astronomical Events for the Year

NightScenes: A Monthly Guide to the Astronomical Events...

Author: Paul L. Money
ISBN: 9781907781124
Format: Paperback
$15.53

Now into its 20th year, the annual Nightscenes book gives clear concise information on what to look out for during...  Read More >>

Tools of Radio Astronomy - Set: 6th Edition with Problems and Solutions Book

Tools of Radio Astronomy - Set: 6th Edition with Problems...

Author: Thomas L. Wilson ,  Kristen Rohlfs
ISBN: 9783030032654
Format: Hardback
$258.72

Both students and practicing astronomers will appreciate this new up-to-date edition of Tools of Radio Astronomy.Tools...  Read More >>

Bode’s Law and the Discovery of Juno: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research

Bode’s Law and the Discovery of Juno: Historical Studies...

Author: Clifford J. Cunningham
ISBN: 9783319813905
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Clifford Cunningham, a dedicated scholar, opens to scrutiny this critical moment of astronomical discovery, continuing...  Read More >>

Investigating the Origin of the Asteroids and Early Findings on Vesta: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research

Investigating the Origin of the Asteroids and Early...

Author: Clifford J. Cunningham
ISBN: 9783319863269
Format: Paperback
$336.35

This book assesses the origin of asteroids by analyzing the discovery of Vesta in 1807. Wilhelm Olbers, who discovered...  Read More >>

Modelling Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Modelling Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Author: Diego F. Torres
ISBN: 9783319874586
Format: Paperback
$336.35

In view of the current and forthcoming observational data on pulsar wind nebulae, this book offers an assessment...  Read More >>

Inventing a Space Mission: The Story of the Herschel Space Observatory

Inventing a Space Mission: The Story of the Herschel...

Author: Vincent Minier ,  Roger-Maurice Bonnet
ISBN: 9783319867618
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This book describes prominent technological achievements within a very successful space science mission: the Herschel...  Read More >>

The Exoplanet Handbook

The Exoplanet Handbook

Author: Michael Perryman
ISBN: 9781108419772
Format: Hardback
$188.86

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The Nature of Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies

The Nature of Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies

Author: William Cowley
ISBN: 9783319883113
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This thesis combines a theoretical model of galaxy formation with a treatment of the radiative transfer in the titular...  Read More >>

Asteroseismology and Exoplanets: Listening to the Stars and Searching for New Worlds: IVth Azores International Advanced School in Space Sciences

Asteroseismology and Exoplanets: Listening to the Stars...

Author: Tiago L. Campante ,  Nuno C. Santos
ISBN: 9783319865966
Format: Paperback
$388.10

"This book presents the proceedings of the IVth Azores International Advanced School in Space Sciences entitled...  Read More >>

Lewis Swift: Celebrated Comet Hunter and the People's Astronomer

Lewis Swift: Celebrated Comet Hunter and the People's...

Author: Gary W. Kronk
ISBN: 9783319876191
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This biography covers the life of Lewis Swift (1820-1913), who discovered 13 comets and nearly 1,200 other deep...  Read More >>

Amplitude Modulation of Pulsation Modes in Delta Scuti Stars

Amplitude Modulation of Pulsation Modes in Delta Scuti...

Author: Dominic M. Bowman
ISBN: 9783319882925
Format: Paperback
$310.47

This outstanding thesis by Dominic Bowman provides a thorough investigation of long-standing questions as to whether...  Read More >>

Supernova Explosions

Supernova Explosions

Author: David Branch ,  J. Craig Wheeler
ISBN: 9783662572238
Format: Paperback
$194.04

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The Science of Time 2016: Time in Astronomy & Society, Past, Present and Future

The Science of Time 2016: Time in Astronomy & Society,...

Author: Elisa Felicitas Arias ,  Ludwig Combrinck
ISBN: 9783319867328
Format: Paperback
$465.72

The uses of time in astronomy - from pointing telescopes, coordinating and processing observations, predicting ephemerides,...  Read More >>

Astronomical Knowledge Transmission Through Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts

Astronomical Knowledge Transmission Through Illustrated...

Author: Marion Dolan
ISBN: 9783319860008
Format: Paperback
$388.10

The survey encompasses four interrelated disciplines: history of literature, history of myth, history of science,...  Read More >>

Applied Computer Science for GGOS Observatories: Communication, Coordination and Automation of Future Geodetic Infrastructures

Applied Computer Science for GGOS Observatories: Communication,...

Author: Alexander N.J. Neidhardt
ISBN: 9783319820392
Format: Paperback
$103.47

This book combines elementary theory from computer science with real-world challenges in global geodetic observation,...  Read More >>

Outskirts of Galaxies

Outskirts of Galaxies

Author: Johan H. Knapen ,  Janice C. Lee
ISBN: 9783319859453
Format: Paperback
$362.22

This book consists of invited reviews written by world-renowned experts on the subject of the outskirts of galaxies,...  Read More >>

High Time-Resolution Astrophysics

High Time-Resolution Astrophysics

Author: Tariq Shahbaz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife) ,  Jorge Casares Velázquez (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife)
ISBN: 9781107181090
Format: Hardback
$323.44

High time-resolution astrophysics (HTRA) involves measuring and studying astronomical phenomena on timescales of...  Read More >>

Introduction to Methods of Approximation in Physics and Astronomy

Introduction to Methods of Approximation in Physics...

Author: Maurice H. P. M. van Putten
ISBN: 9789811097423
Format: Paperback
$155.22

This textbook provides students with a solid introduction to the techniques of approximation commonly used in data...  Read More >>

Gas Accretion onto Galaxies

Gas Accretion onto Galaxies

Author: Andrew Fox ,  Romeel Davé
ISBN: 9783319849201
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This edited volume presents the current state of gas accretion studies from both observational and theoretical perspectives,...  Read More >>

Submillimetre Studies of Prestellar and Starless Cores in the Ophiuchus, Taurus and Cepheus Molecular Clouds

Submillimetre Studies of Prestellar and Starless Cores...

Author: Katherine Miranda Pattle
ISBN: 9783319859354
Format: Paperback
$284.60

The book illustrates core stability on the “virial plane”, in which core stability is plotted against core confinement...  Read More >>

Tools of Radio Astronomy - Problems and Solutions

Tools of Radio Astronomy - Problems and Solutions

Author: T.L. Wilson ,  Susanne Hüttemeister
ISBN: 9783319908199
Format: Paperback
$142.29

Covering topics of radio astronomy, this book contains graduate-level problems with carefully presented solutions....  Read More >>

A Dirty Window: Diffuse and Translucent Molecular Gas in the Interstellar Medium

A Dirty Window: Diffuse and Translucent Molecular Gas...

Author: Loris Magnani ,  Steven N. Shore
ISBN: 9783662571941
Format: Paperback
$362.22

A brief exposition on dust in the diffuse interstellar medium is followed by a discussion of molecular clouds in...  Read More >>

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