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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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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.