Serious amateurs today can make more discoveries and original observations than could their predecessors, and professional astronomers are giving them significant status and support. Sky Watcher's Handbook is for the amateur astronomer who, having…
Explains the basics of equipment and technique needed to photograph and process photographs of the sun, moon, stars, planets and other astronomical phenomena
Teaches the reader to identify and track planets with planet-spotting tables to the year 2000; then use the sky maps to help find stars and constellations every night. A list of 88 constellations with their Latin and common names is included.
Nieuwe wegen in de moderne fysica.Aan de keerz. v.h. titelbl.: "Het twee uur durende televisieprogramma De sleutel tot het heelal ... was een co-productie van BBC (London) BRT (Brussel), KRO (Hilversum) en WTTW (Chicago)
This book chronicles the remarkable resurgence in small telescope astronomical research sparked by three technical breakthroughs: compact Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes, personal computers, and affordable CCD cameras. Every night, cosmic mysteries are…
De moderne natuurkunde rust op twee stevige pijlers: de relativiteitstheorie van Albert Einstein en de quantummechanica. Lange tijd lukte het niet om deze theorieën met elkaar te rijmen. Hierin kwam verandering toen de snaartheorie ten tonele…