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The author has pioneered the measurement of brightness variations in stars over very short time scales and in this book he discusses the applications of astronomical photometry with time resolutions of between 10 microseconds and 10 minutes to a…

This is an extensively revised, updated and enlarged edition of Dr Steel's popular textbook on interferometry. The book provides a general treatment that brings together the many different applications of the interference of electromagnetic waves.…

La collection "Que sais-je?"Le point des connaissances actuelles n°652

Scruter le ciel et observer l'invisible. Ce rêve devint réalité au XVIIe siècle avec la lunette de Galilée, le premier instrument optique de l'histoire de l'astronomie à avoir révélé l'immensité de l'espace. L'exploration du cosmos en était alors à…

This guide for the backyard astronomer provides basic information, offers activity ideas, and gives construction details and assembly drawings for six telescopes.

The long-awaited second edition of this well-received textbook gives a thorough introduction to observational astronomy. Starting with the basics of positional astronomy and systems of time, it continues with charts and catalogs covering both…