Visual astronomy : a guide to understanding the night sky /

This book introduces the basics of observational astronomy. It explains the essentials of time and coordinate systems, and their use in basic observations of the night sky. The fundamental concepts and terminology are introduced in simple language making very little use of equations and math. Exam...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Photinos, Panos (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2015]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 1.
IOP concise physics.
Temas:
Astronomy > Observers' manuals.
Astronomy > Amateurs' manuals.
Popular astronomy and space.
SCIENCE / Astronomy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Author biography
  • Introduction
  • A brief survey of celestial objects and a sense of scale
  • The size of objects in the Solar System
  • Objects beyond the Solar System
  • Distances of celestial objects
  • The celestial sphere and apparent motion of the Sun
  • The celestial sphere
  • The annual motion of the Sun
  • The Sun's analemma
  • The motion of the sunrise and sunset points
  • The motion of the celestial poles
  • Coordinate systems
  • The equatorial coordinate system
  • The hour angle
  • The altitude-azimuth coordinate system
  • The local paths of stars
  • Which stars can be seen from a given location?
  • When can a star be seen in the night sky?
  • The ecliptic coordinate system
  • Resources
  • The motion and phases of the Moon
  • The phases of the Moon
  • The diurnal motion of the Moon
  • East and west elongation
  • Features of the Moon
  • The Moon's orbital path
  • Eclipses
  • The sidereal and synodic periods of the Moon
  • The apparent size of the Moon
  • The ocean tides
  • Resources
  • The planets
  • The orbits of planets
  • Planetary motion and Kepler's laws
  • The phases of the planets
  • Planetary configurations
  • Synodic and sidereal periods
  • An explanation of the retrograde motion of planets
  • Observing the planets
  • Resources
  • Comets, meteoroids and meteor showers
  • The structure of comets
  • The orbits of comets
  • Long and short period comets
  • Meteors and meteor showers
  • Space junk
  • Resources
  • Constellations, asterisms and star names
  • The distances between stars in constellations and asterisms
  • The constellations of the zodiac
  • Star names
  • Which constellations can be seen from a given location?
  • Resources
  • Star properties
  • The color and temperature of stars
  • The spectral classification of stars
  • Other information contained in the absorption spectra of stars
  • Luminosity and luminosity classes
  • The apparent brightness and the inverse square law
  • The size of stars
  • Telescopes
  • Types of telescopes
  • The focal length and the f/number
  • Magnification
  • Image resolution
  • Refractors versus reflectors
  • The effects of the atmosphere
  • Using cameras with telescopes
  • Finding the stars
  • Appendices
  • A. Measuring angles
  • B. Measuring distance in astronomy
  • C. Time keeping
  • D. Star magnitude systems and the distance modulus
  • E. Bibliography.

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