The New Amateur Astronomer [E-Book] / by Martin Mobberley.
Amateur astronomy has changed beyond recognition in less than two decades. The 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 adv...
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Personal Name(s): | Mobberley, Martin, author |
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London :
Springer,
2004
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X, 229 p. 222 illus. online resource. |
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englisch |
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9781447106395 |
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10.1007/978-1-4471-0639-5 |
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Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series
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- — Why Amateur Astronomy?
- I — The Equipment
- 1 Optical Fundamentals
- 2 Buying a Commercial Telescope
- 3 Navigating the Rotating Spherical Sky
- 4 “Go To” Telescopes and Mountings
- 5 Digicams and Video Astronomy
- 6 Cooled CCD Cameras
- 7 Image-Processing Software
- II — The People
- 8 CCD Planetary Imagers
- 9 Supernova Discoverers
- 10 Deep-Sky Perfectionists
- 11 Cataclysmic-Variable Observers and Gamma Ray Burster Hunters
- 12 Saving the World: Near-Earth Object Chasers
- 13 Armchair Comet Hunters
- 14 Backyard Spectroscopists
- Appendix: Useful Web Page URLs and Equipment Suppliers.