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Astronomical Distance Determination in the Space Age
Knowing the distance of an astrophysical object is key to understanding its formation and evolution. Without an accurate distance, we do not know how bright it is, how large it is, or even when it existed. This volume highlights the tremendous amount…
Astronomical discoveries you can make, too!
You too can follow in the steps of the great astronomers such as Hipparchus, Galileo, Kepler and Hubble, who all contributed so much to our modern understanding of the cosmos. This book gives the student or amateur astronomer the following tools to…
Astronomical Centers of the World
Book Description This is a thorough introduction to observatories that have made particularly important observational and theoretical advances in the field of astronomy, and to the astronomers who made them famous.
About the Author Kevin Krisciunas…
Astronomical Applications of Astrometry
The Hipparcos satellite, developed and launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 1989, was the first space mission dedicated to astrometry – the accurate measurement of positions, distances, and proper motions of stars. Amongst the key…
Astronomical Algorithms
Stated in book," Virtually every previous handbook on celestial calcuations was forced to rely on formaulae for Sun Moon and planets that were developed in the last century or before 1920. With his special knack for computations of all sorts, the…
Astronomica sterrenstelsels/sterren verkennen van de ruimte
Sterren en planeten facineren de mens al sinds het antstaan van de mensheid. In de loop der eeuwen hebben ontelbare observatoren steeds meer en steeds gedeteilleerdere informatie onthuld over het universum. Maar de zoektocht naar gegevens over ons…