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Practical astronomy with your calculator /
Practical Astronomy with your Calculator, first published in 1979, has enjoyed immense success. The author's clear and easy to follow routines enable you to solve a variety of practical and recreational problems in astronomy using a scientific calculator. Mathematical complexity is kept firmly...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1988.
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| Edición: | Third edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the third edition; About this book and how to use it; Dedication; Time; 1 Calendars; 2 The date of Easter; 3 Converting the date to the day number; 4 Julian day numbers; 5 Converting the Julian day number to the calendar date; 6 Finding the day of the week; 7 Converting hours, minutes and seconds to decimal hours; 8 Converting decimal hours to hours, minutes and seconds; 9 Converting the local time to UT; 10 Converting UT to local civil time; 11 Sidereal time (ST); 12 Conversion of UT to GST; 13 Conversion of GST to UT
- 14 Local sidereal time (LST)15 Converting 1st to GST; 16 Ephemeris time (ET) and terrestrial dynamic time (TDT); Coordinate systems; 17 Horizon coordinates; 18 Equatorial coordinates; 19 Ecliptic coordinates; 20 Galactic coordinates; 21 Converting between decimal degrees and degrees, minutes and seconds; 22 Converting between angles expressed in degrees and angles expressed in hours; 23 Converting between one coordinate system and another; 24 Converting between right ascension and hour-angle; 25 Equatorial to horizon coordinate conversion; 26 Horizon to equatorial coordinate conversion
- 27 Ecliptic to equatorial coordinate conversion28 Equatorial to ecliptic coordinate conversion; 29 Equatorial to galactic coordinate conversion; 30 Galactic to equatorial coordinate conversion; 31 Generalised coordinate transformations; 32 The angle between two celestial objects; 33 Rising and setting; 34 Precession; 35 Nutation; 36 Aberration; 37 Refraction; 38 Geocentric parallax and the figure of the Earth; 39 Calculating corrections for parallax; 40 Heliographic coordinates; 41 Carrington rotation numbers; 42 Selenographic coordinates; 43 Atmospheric extinction; The Sun; 44 Orbits
- 45 The apparent orbit of the Sun46 Calculating the position of the Sun; 47 Calculating orbits more precisely; 48 Calculating the Sun's distance and angular size; 49 Sunrise and sunset; 50 Twilight; 51 The equation of time; 52 Solar elongations; The planets, comets and binary stars; 53 The planetary orbits; 54 Calculating the coordinates of a planet; 55 Finding the approximate positions of the planets; 56 Perturbations in a planet's orbit; 57 The distance, light-travel time and angular size of a planet; 58 The phases of the planets; 59 The position-angle of the bright limb
- 60 The apparent brightness of a planet61 Comets; 62 Parabolic orbits; 63 Binary-star orbits; The Moon and eclipses; 64 The Moon's orbit; 65 Calculating the Moon's position; 66 The Moon's hourly motions; 67 The phases of the Moon; 68 The position-angle of the Moon's bright limb; 69 The Moon's distance, angular size and horizontal parallax; 70 Moonrise and moonset; 71 Eclipses; 72 The 'rules' of eclipses; 73 Calculating a lunar eclipse; 74 Calculating a solar eclipse; 75 The Astronomical Calendar; Glossary of terms; Symbols and abbreviations; Index