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Observing the moon : the modern astronomer's guide /

Provides background knowledge of the Moon and lunar observation and offers practical advice for novice and experienced astronomers on the best ways to observe the moon.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: North, Gerald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. "Magnificent desolation"
  • 1.1. An orbiting rock-ball
  • 1.2. Phases and eclipses
  • 1.3. Solar eclipses
  • 1.4. Gravity and tides
  • 1.5. More about the motions of the Moon
  • libration
  • 1.6. Co-ordinates on the surface of the Moon
  • 1.7. Occultations
  • 2. The Moon through the looking glass
  • 2.1. The Moon in focus
  • 2.2. The pioneering selenographers
  • 3. Telescopes and drawing boards
  • 3.1. What type of telescope do you need?
  • 3.2. How big a telescope do you need?
  • 3.3. So, what telescope should I spend my money on?
  • 3.4. Eyepiece characteristics
  • 3.5. Specific eyepiece types and magnification
  • 3.6. Making the best of what you have
  • 3.7. Drawing the Moon.
  • 4. The Moon in camera
  • 4.1. Some basic principles of CCD astrocameras and digital cameras
  • 4.2. Practical CCD astrocameras and digital cameras
  • 4.3. The imaging area of a CCD camera when used on your telescope, or with an attached camera lens
  • 4.4. Image scale using the supplied lenses on a '35mm format' DSLR
  • 4.5. practical lunar photography through the telescope
  • at the principal focus
  • 4.6. The potential resolution of detail in the image
  • 4.7. Enlarging the telescope's primary image
  • 4.8. Image processing
  • 5. Stacking up the Moon
  • 5.1. The Moon and your domestic video camera
  • 5.2. The benefits of stacking selected images
  • 5.3. manually stacking individual frames
  • 5.4. The webcam revolution
  • 5.5. Your webcam and computer
  • 5.6. The webcam's first night on your telescope
  • 5.7. Stacking the images using RegiStax
  • 5.8. Processing the stacked image in RegiStax
  • 5.9. Striving for the best results.
  • 6. The physical Moon
  • 6.1. The first lunar scouts
  • 6.2. Men on the Moon
  • 6.3. The post-Apollo Moon
  • 6.4. Not green cheese but ...
  • 6.5. Genesis of the Moon
  • 6.6. The Moon's structure
  • 6.7. The evolution of the Moon
  • a brief overview
  • 6.8. Lunar chronology
  • 6.9. Filling in the details
  • 7. Lunarware
  • 7.1. Out-of-print books
  • 7.2. Books currently in print
  • 7.3. Printed maps, charts and atlases
  • 7.4. Some useful website addresses concerning equipment and techniques
  • 7.5. Consolidated Lunar Atlas, LUnar Orbiter Photographic Atlas, Apollo Image Atlas and Ranger photographs online
  • 7.6. Clementine, Lunar Prospector and SMART-1 images and data online
  • 7.7. Virtual Moon atlas
  • 7.8. Lunar ephemerides
  • 7.9. Key map for chapter 8.
  • 8. 'A to Z' of selected lunar landscapes
  • 8.1. Agarum, promontorium
  • 8.2. Albategnius
  • 8.3. Alpes, Vallis
  • 8.4. Alphonsus
  • 8.5. Apenninus, Montes
  • 8.6. Ariadaeus, Rima
  • 8.7. Aristarchus
  • 8.8. Aristoteles
  • 8.9. Bailly
  • 8.10. Bullialdus
  • 8.11. Cassini
  • 8.12. Clavius
  • 8.13. Copernicus
  • 8.14. Crisium, Mare
  • 8.15. Endymion
  • 8.16. Fra Mauro
  • 8.17. Furnerius
  • 8.18. 'Gruithuisen's lunar city'
  • 8.19. Harbinger, Montes
  • 8.20. Hevelius
  • 8.21. Hortensius
  • 8.22. Humorum, Mare
  • 8.23. Hyginus, Rima
  • 8.24. Imbrium, Mare
  • 8.25. Janssen
  • 8.26. Langrenus
  • 8.27. Maestlin R
  • 8.28. Messier
  • 8.29. Moretus
  • 8.30. Nectaris, Mare
  • 8.31. Neper
  • 8.32. Pitatus
  • 8.33. Plato
  • 8.34. Plinius
  • 8.35. Posidonius
  • 8.36. Pythagoras
  • 8.37. Ramsden
  • 8.38. Regiomontanus
  • 8.39. Russell
  • 8.40. Schickard
  • 8.41. Schiller
  • 8.42. Sirsalis, Rimae
  • 8.43. 'Straight Wall' (Rupes Recta)
  • 8.44. Theophilus
  • 8.45. Torricelli
  • 8.46. Tycho
  • 8.47. Wargentin.
  • 8.48. Wichmann
  • 8.49. Webcam gallery
  • 9. TLP or not TLP?
  • 9.1. The mystery unfolds
  • 9.2. Categories of TLP
  • 9.3. The mystery continues
  • 9.4. What might be the cause(s) of TLP?
  • 9.5. Possible causes of bogus TLP
  • 9.6. TLP observing programme
  • Appendix 1 : Telescope collimation
  • Appendix 2 : Field-testing a telescope's optics
  • Appendix 3 : Polar alignment
  • Index.