Telescopes and Techniques: An Introduction to Practical Astronomy - Softcover

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Section 1: Telescopes.- 1 Types of Telescope.- Historical Introduction.- Modern Instruments.- Mounting.- Schmidt Camera.- Multi-Mirror and Space Telescopes.- Atmospheric Compensation.- Radio Telescopes.- Interferometers.- 2 Telescope Optics.- Point Sources.- Extended Images.- Objectives.- Eyepieces.- Accessories.- Aberrations.- Interferometers.- Mountings.- Observatories and Observing Sites.- Exercises.- 3 Modern Small Telescope Design.- Making Your Own.- Commercially Produced Telescopes.- Binoculars.- Section 2: Positions and Motions.- 4 Positions in the Sky.- Spherical Polar Coordinates.- Celestial Sphere.- Altitude and Azimuth.- Rotation.- Solar and Sidereal Days.- Declination and Hour Angle.- Time.- Mean Solar Time.- Solar Time.- Civil Time.- Sidereal Time.- Right Ascension and Declination.- Other Coordinate Systems.- Heliocentric Time.- Julian Date.- Spherical Trigonometry.- Exercises.- 5 Movements of Objects in the Sky.- Diurnal Motion.- Circumpolar Objects.- Seasons and Annual Motions.- Movement of the Moon and Planets.- Moon.- Other Solar System Objects.- Proper Motion.- Precession.- Parallax.- Aberration.- Relative Planetary Positions.- Position with Respect to the Earth.- Eclipses.- Position in an Orbit.- Synodic Period.- Exercises.- 6 Telescope Mountings.- Equatorial Mountings.- Alt-Az Mountings.- Making Your Own Mounting.- Alignment.- Setting Circles.- Guiding.- Modern Commercial Mountings.- Section 3: Observing.- 7 Electromagnetic Radiation.- Intensity.- Photons.- Polarisation.- Range.- Measurements.- Photometry.- Spectroscopy.- Polarimetry.- 8 Visual Observing.- General and Practical Considerations and Safety.- Finding.- Moon.- Planets.- Sun.- Finding.- Observing.- Stars.- Stellar Nomenclature.- Magnitudes.- Observing Stars.- Nebulae and Galaxies.- Daytime Observing.- False Observations.- Exercise.- 9 Detectors and Imaging.- The Eye.- Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs).- Image Processing.- Photography.- p-i-n Photodiode.- Superconducting Tunnel Junction Detectors.- Exercise.- 10 Data Processing.- Data Reduction.- Data Analysis.- Linear Regression.- Correlation Coefficient.- Student's t Test.- Exercises.- 11 Photometry.- CCD Photometry.- Photographic Photometry.- Absolute Magnitude.- Wavelength Dependence.- UBV System.- Bolometric Magnitude.- Spatial Information.- Photometers.- Observing Techniques.- Exercises.- 12 Spectroscopy.- Spectroscopes.- Spectroscopy.- Spectral Type.- Luminosity Class.- Radial Velocity.- Spectrophotometry.- Exercise.

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