Astronomical Discoveries You Can Make, Too!
Replicating the Work of the Great Observers
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
amateur astronomer the following tools to...
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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 oramateur astronomer the following tools to replicate some of these seminal observations from their own homes:
With your own eyes: Use your own observations and measurements to discover and confirm the phenomena of the seasons, the analemma and the equation of time, the logic behind celestial coordinates, and even the precession of the equinoxes.
With a consumer-grade digital camera: Record the changing brightness of an eclipsing binary star and show that a pulsating star changes color as it brightens and dims. Add an inexpensive diffraction grating to your camera and see the variety of spectral features in the stars, and demonstrate that the Sun's spectrum is similar to one particular type of stellar spectrum.
With a backyard telescope: Add a CCD imager and you can measure the scale of the Solar System and the distance to a nearby star. You could even measure the distance to another galaxy and observe the cosmological redshift of the expanding universe.
Astronomical Discoveries You Can Make, Too! doesn't just tell you about the development of astronomy; it shows you how to discover for yourself the essential features of the universe.
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Part I: Motions and Positions in the Sky.- Chapter 1: The Stars, the Sidereal and Solar Day, and the Seasons.- Chapter 2: Measuring Position and Describing Motion.- Part 2: The Moon.- Chapter 3: Introducing Earth's Satellite.- Chapter 4: The Moon in Three Dimensions, Occultations, and Parallax.- Chapter 5: The Moon's Surface.- Part III: The Planets.- Chapter 6: Solar System Orbits.- Chapter 7: Planetary Phases and Moons.- Chapter 8: Scale and Light.- Part IV: The Stars.- Chapter 9: Observing Variable Stars.- Chapter 10: Barnard's Star and the Copernican Model.- Part V: Astrophysics and Cosmology.- Chapter 11: Stellar Spectroscopy.- Chapter 12: Chapter 12: Solar Spectroscopy and the H-R Diagram.- Chapter 13: Our Galactic Neighbors.- Appendices.
Autoren-Porträt von Robert K. Buchheim
Robert Buchheim's professional career has consisted of a variety of engineering and manufacturing management positions in the aerospace industry. In the late 1970's he was responsible for development of a first-generation adaptive optics system. It was the first successful demonstration of adaptive optics in the far-infrared, which was classified technology at that time.Buchheim's avocation of amateur astronomy spans 30 years. It has included telescope-making, deep-sky observing, and pursuit of a variety of research-oriented projects such as asteroid occultation timing, astrometry, photometry and spectroscopy. He has organized groups of students to monitor meteor showers, designed and built a new type of equatorial platform, presented papers at conferences, been a guest teacher at secondary schools and colleges and written a monthly astronomy column for newspapers. He has first-hand experience with the projects described in the proposed book, and a demonstrated ability to explain the "how" and "why" of observations and measurements. Buchheim is also the author of The Sky Is Your Laboratory (Springer/Praxis, 2007).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Robert K. Buchheim
- 2015, XIII, 549 Seiten, 122 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 16,8 x 24 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3319156594
- ISBN-13: 9783319156590
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.05.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"This is one of the most genuinely exciting new astronomy books I've seen in a long time. It shows you, for example, how you can use Galileo's method to work out the height of mountains on the moon. ... The time commitment and equipment requirements for each project are well set out, and the projects are well explained. ... this book a treat for the armchair astronomer, but a real treasure trove for a team of committed explorers." (Andy Sawers, Astronomy Now, February, 2016)
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