Cargando…

Astronomical spectrographs and their history /

Astronomical spectrographs analyse light emitted by the Sun, stars, galaxies and other objects in the Universe, and have been used in astronomy since the early nineteenth century. This book provides a comprehensive account of spectrographs from an historical perspective, from their theory and develo...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hearnshaw, J. B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The historical development of astronomical spectroscopes and spectrographs
  • The theory of spectroscopes and spectrographs
  • High resolution spectrographs
  • Solar spectrographs and the history of solar spectroscopy
  • Objective prism spectrographs
  • Ultraviolet and nebular spectroscopy
  • Multi-object spectrographs
  • Ten pioneering spectrographs of the late twentieth century.