Imaging the Southern Sky Authors: Chadwick Stephen Cooper Ian If you’re looking for a handy reference guide to help you image and explore the many splendors of the southern sky Imaging the Southern Sky is the book for you. The work features not only stunning color images all taken by Stephen Chadwick of the best …
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Scientific Astrophotography Author: Gerald R Hubbell This book is a wealth of information and a distillation of ideas presented by a diverse set of sources and based on the most recent techniques equipment and data available. It also includes numerous exercises for the reader to maximize the success and minimize the frustration inherent in the …
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Twenty-Five Astronomical Observations That Changed the World – And How To Make Them Yourself Author: Michael Marett-Crosby Starting with our most visible companion the Moon each chapter offers a step-by-step walk-through of famous astronomical observations from the history of science. Beginning with the easiest targets sometimes even accessible with the naked eye the challenges become …
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Mars and How to Observe It Authors: Grego Peter Mars has long been a favorite subject for astronomers both amateur and professional. Known as the Red Planet because of its distinct color it shines brightly in the skies when it is closest to the Earth every two years. Exciting to view through a telescope this …
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Solar System Maps – From Antiquity to the Space Age Author: Nick Kanas This book tells the exciting story of how we have conceptualized and mapped our Solar System from antiquity to modern times. In addition to the complete text this story is made more vivid by: 162 Solar System and planetary maps diagrams and …
Sketching the Moon Authors: Handy R. Kelleghan D. McCague Th. Rix E. Russell S. Soon after you begin studying the sky through your small telescope or binoculars you will probably be encouraged by others to make sketches of what you see. Sketching is a time-honored tradition in amateur astronomy and dates back to the earliest …
Celestial Delights Authors: Reddy Francis Celestial Delights is the essential TV Guide for the sky. Through extensive graphics integrated with an eight-year-long calendar of sky events it provides a look at don’t miss sky events mostly for naked-eye and binocular observing. It is organized by ease of observation lunar phases and the brighter planets come …
The Chemical Cosmos – A Guided Tour Author: Steve Miller If you have ever wondered how we get from the awesome impersonality of the Big Bang universe to the point where living creatures can start to form and evolve into beings like you your friends and your family wonder no more. Steve Miller provides us …
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Stands as a unique single-source reference for astronomers and for anyone interested in classical literature. Organized by season for convenient practical observations. Gives practical observation data for stellar and deep-sky features as well as observing and imaging tips. Serves as a great resource for astronomy lectures and star parties. The Mythology of the Night Sky …
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Choosing and Using a Refracting Telescope Authors: English Neil The refracting telescope has a long and illustrious past. Heres what the author says about early telescopes and todays refractors: Four centuries ago a hitherto obscure Italian scientist turned a home-made spyglass towards the heavens. The lenses he used were awful by modern standards inaccurately figured …
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Star Clusters Authors: Cardona III Charles A. Star clusters are some of the most beautiful objects in the night sky and are prime targets for observational astronomers as well as astrophotographers. Using some of the newer technologies and larger and more powerful telescopes available today to amateur astronomers many more of these dazzling groupings of …
The Radio Sky and How to Observe It Authors: Lashley Jeff We have learned a great deal about our universe not only by looking at the sky through optical telescopes but also by listening to it! Although in the past most of the great discoveries have been made by professional radio astronomers using large radio …
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New Quests in stellar astrophysics II Editors: Chavez Dagostino M. Bertone E. Rosa Gonzalez D. Rodriguez-Merino L.H. (Eds.) This driveway has derived in a renewed interest on the stars that presumably dominate or have important effects on the integrated UV properties of evolved systems of the nearby and faraway Universe. The topics included in this …
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Starlight Authors: Robinson Keith There are so many questions and in this engaging and informative book by Keith Robinson which serves as a companion to his very popular earlier book called Spectroscopy the Key to the Stars you will learn the basics of stellar physics and the answers to many of these questions as well …
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Mysteries of galaxy-formation Authors: COMBES Francoise The mystery of how the galaxies formed is a complex and intriguing subject involving several different theories and an understanding of many different phenomena. Françoise Combes outlines the context in which the Big Bang and the expansion of the universe occurred and the first inhomogeneities from which arose the …
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A Spectroscopic Atlas of Bright Stars Authors: Martin Jack Den här behändiga användarvänliga fältatlasen i fickformat som har undersökts noggrant med data sammanställda under många år av författaren (en amatörastronom i 45 år) innehåller spektra (spektraldiagram) för över 73 ljusstarka stjärnor på norra halvklotet och är avsedd att användas av andra amatörer studenter och utbildningsinstitutioner …
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Make Time for the Stars by Antony Cooke Perhaps you have a telescope from years ago which you used a few times then put it away in a closet where it has been gathering dust ever since. Could you still use that telescope or do you have to buy a new one? And what about …
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Practical Microscopy for Beekeepers av Bob Maurer Boken innehåller grunderna för studier av nosema trakékvalster varroa m.fl. sjukdomar. Den visar hur man enkelt disikerar bin för undervisnig och diagnos. Den ger också en översikt över hur man preparerar pollen. Mycket informativ och lättläst bok. Språk: Engelska Visa pris
Galaxy Collisions – Forging New Worlds from Cosmic Crashes Authors: Struck Curtis Galaxy collisions are the key process in building galaxies triggering the formation of stars and the build-up of heavy elements that allow the formation of planets and solar systems. This book presents the revolutionary research advances achieved in the last decade and lucidly …
Cosmic Collisions Authors: Christensen Lars Lindberg de Martin Davide Shida Raquel Yumi Like majestic ships in the grandest night galaxies can slip ever closer until their mutual gravitational interaction begins to mold them into intricate figures that are finally and irreversibly woven together. It is an immense cosmic dance choreographed by gravity. Cosmic Collisions contains …
