reason is, of course, technology. Affordable high-quality telescopes, computer-controlled 'go to' mountings, autoguiders, CCD cameras, video, and (as always) computers and the Internet, are just a few of the advances that have revolutionized astronomy for the twenty-first century.
Martin Mobberley first looks at the basics before going into an in-depth study of what’s available commercially. He then moves on to the revolutionary possibilities that are open to amateurs, from imaging, through spectroscopy and photometry, to patrolling for near-earth objects - the search for comets and asteroids that may come close to, or even hit, the earth.
The New Amateur Astronomer is a road map of the new astronomy, equally suitable for newcomers who wants an introduction, or old hands who needs to keep abreast of innovations.
Geschrieben für:
Amateur astronomers, 1st year astronomy students
Inhalt
- Introduction - Why Amateur Astronomy?
- Part I - Equipment
- Optical Fundamentals
- Buying a Commercial Telescope
- Navigating the Rotating Spherical Sky
- ‘Go To’ Telescopes and Mountings
- Digicams and Video Astronomy
- Cooled CCD Cameras
- Image Processing Software
- Part II - The People
- CCD Planetary Imagers
- Supernova Discoverers
- Deep-sky Perfectionists
- Cataclysmic
- Variable Observers & Gamma Ray Burster Hunters
- Saving the World
- Near Earth Object Chasers
- Armchair Comet Hunters
- Backyard Spectroscopists
- Appendix
Springer Berlin, 2004, 300 S.
42,75 Euro
Broschiert
ISBN: 978-1-85233-663-9
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