Observer's Guide to Variable Stars [E-Book] / by Martin Griffiths.
This book contains everything you need to know about variable stars -- stars whose brightness varies noticeably over time. The study of variable stars has been a particularly popular area of research for amateurs for many years; the material contained herein serves as both an introduction to amateur...
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Personal Name(s): | Griffiths, Martin, author |
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1st ed. 2018. |
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Cham :
Springer,
2018
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Physical Description: |
XV, 316 pages 130 illustrations, 55 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
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9783030009045 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-00904-5 |
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The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
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- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Variable Stars
- Chapter 2: The Astrophysics of Variable Stars
- Chapter 3: Observing Techniques
- Chapter 4 Instrumentation and Equipment
- Chapter 5: Variable Star Photometry
- Chapter 6: Observing Variable Stars with Binoculars
- Chapter 7: Giant Stars and Their Variability
- Chapter 8: Cepheids and Other Variable Types
- Chapter 9: Rotating Variable Stars
- Chapter 10: Following the Light
- Eclipsing Variable Stars
- Chapter 11: Explosive and Eruptive Variable Stars
- Chapter 12: Unusual Variables
- X-Rays and Visual GROs
- Chapter 13: Variable Star Associations
- Chapter 14: Variable Stars to Observe
- Appendix: Spectrosocopy of Variable Stars
- Glossary
- References and Further Reading
- Index.