Lewis Swift [E-Book] : Celebrated Comet Hunter and the People's Astronomer / by Gary W. Kronk.
This biography covers the life of Lewis Swift (1820-1913), who discovered 13 comets and nearly 1,200 other deep sky objects. All 13 comets found by Swift now bear his name, including three periodic comets with periods of 6 years (11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR), 9 years (64P/Swift-Gehrels), and 133 years (...
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| Personal Name(s): | Kronk, Gary W, author |
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1st ed. 2017. |
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Cham :
Springer,
2017
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| Physical Description: |
XVI, 428 pages 17 illustrations (online resource) |
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englisch |
| ISBN: |
9783319637211 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-319-63721-1 |
| Series Title: |
Historical & Cultural Astronomy
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- Chapter 1: Family and Swift's Early Years
- Chapter 2: Swift Steps into Astronomy
- Chapter 3: Duffy's Cider Mill
- Chapter 4: The Solar Eclipse of July 29, 1878. Chapter 5: Warner Observatory: A Dream Becomes Reality
- Chapter 6: Celebrity and Its Consequences
- Chapter 7: Edward Emerson Barnard
- Chapter 8: Swift's Heyday of Discovery
- Chapter 9: Growing Dissatisfaction at Warner Observatory
- Chapter 10: A Mountain Resort and Lowe Observatory
- Chapter 11: A Few of Swift's Favorite Things
- Chapter 12: The Final Years
- Chapter 13: Swift's Legacy
- Chapter 14: Annotations for Swift's Catalogs
- Swift's Deep Sky Catalogs
- List of Abbreviations Used in the NGC and IC Descriptions
- Index.