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Choosing and Using a Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope [E-Book] : A Guide to Commercial SCTs and Maksutovs /
Table of Contents: ...1 Why a CAT? -- 2 What’s a CAT? -- 3 Inside a CAT -- 4 Which CAT? -- 5 The SCT Out-of-Box Experience: Initial Telescope Assembly and Checkout -- 6 Accessories for your CAT -- 7 From That Very First Night: Field Set-up, Checkout and Observing -- 8 Care...

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Eclipsing Binary Stars [E-Book] : Modeling and Analysis /
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Optical Detectors for Astronomy [E-Book] : Proceedings of an ESO CCD Workshop held in Garching, Germany, October 8–10, 1996 /
Table of Contents: ..., Shutter, LN2 Level, All in One Box -- Very-high Frame-rate Burst-image Sensor -- High Speed, Wide Dynamic Range CCD Systems for Applications in Astronomy -- Recent Results from the EEV CCD42 -- The AIP Photometric Testbench -- High-Speed Data Acquisition System...

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Wide-Field Spectroscopy [E-Book] : Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Working Group of IAU Commission 9 on “Wide-Field Imaging” held in Athens, Greece, May 20–25, 1996 /
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Galactic Bulges [E-Book] : Proceedings of the 153th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Ghent, Belgium, August 17–22, 1992 /
Table of Contents: ... Dispersions and Metallicities of Box-Shaped Galaxies -- Photometric Properties of Box-Shaped Galaxies -- Hot Stellar Populations in the M31 Bulge -- Line Profiles in the Bulge of NGC 7217 -- On the Photometric Characteristics of Ellipticals and Bulges of Spirals...

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Windows on Galaxies [E-Book] : Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop of the Advanced School of Astronomy of the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, May 21–31, 1989 /
Table of Contents: ... -- Potential Sites for Star Formation in Colliding Galaxies -- Characterising “Box/Peanut” Galagtic Bulges -- Some Implications of the Small-Scale Isotropy of the X-Ray Background -- The Kinetic Energy in Elliptical Galaxies -- The Predominance of Cools Flowing...

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BL Lac Objects [E-Book] : Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Como, Italy, September 20–23, 1988 /
Table of Contents: ... and on the cosmological evolution -- The optical and radio properties of X-ray selected Bl Lacertae Objects -- Optical polarimetry of x-ray selected BL Lacs 1989 -- Two new BL Lacertae objects discovered in the error boxes of hard X-ray sources -- Discovery of an X-ray...

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The World of Galaxies [E-Book] : Proceedings of the Conference “Le Monde des Galaxies” Held 12–14 April 1988 at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris in Honor of Gérard and Antoinette de Vaucouleurs on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday /
Table of Contents: ...-Component Systems of Galactic Mass -- Kinematics and Chemical Properties of the Old Disk of the Galaxy -- Complex Instability of Simple Periodoc Orbits in a Realistic Galactic Potential -- Photometry of Early-Type Galaxies and the r1/4 Law -- Box- and Peanut...

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Structure and Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies [E-Book] : Proceedings of the 127th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union Held in Princeton, U.S.A., May 27–31, 1986 /
Table of Contents: ... Isophotes and Dust Lanes in Bright Virgo Ellipticals -- The Unusual Box-Shaped Elliptical(?) Galaxy IC 3370 -- AM2020-5050: an Elliptical Galaxy with an Outer Ring -- Taurus Observations of S0 Polar Ring Galaxies -- The Structure and Kinematics of the Ionized Gas...

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Dark Companions of Stars [E-Book] : Astrometric Commentary on the Lower End of the Main Sequence /
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Automated Data Retrieval in Astronomy [E-Book] : Proceedings of the 64th Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union Held in Strasbourg, France, July 7–10, 1981 /
Heintz, W.
1982
Table of Contents: ... investigation -- 53. Geneva photometric boxes IV. A refined method for direct access -- 54. Data for the compilation of the “Third catalogue of nearby stars” -- 55. Fundamental Data for FK4/FK4Sup Stars -- 56. Remarks about the cataloguing of open cluster data -- 57...

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Origin of Cosmic Rays [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ... -- Search for X-Ray Sources in the COS-B Gamma-Ray Error Boxes -- The Acceleration of Galactic Cosmic Rays -- Cosmic Ray Acceleration in the Presence of Losses -- Cosmic-Ray Injection into Shock-Waves -- Shock Structure including Cosmic Ray Acceleration...

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X-Ray Astronomy [E-Book] : Proceedings of the XV ESLAB Symposium held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22–26 June 1981 /
Table of Contents: ... -- Optical Observations of the X-Ray Source 2S0921-630 -- Ultraviolet Study of V1341 Cyg = Cyg X-2. Observation of an Accretion Disk -- Einstein Observations of the Galactic Centre -- Soft X-Ray Sources and Their Optical Counterparts in the Error Box of the Cos-B...

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An Introduction to Nuclear Astrophysics [E-Book] : The Formation and the Evolution of Matter in the Universe /