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| Genre/Form: | Handbook Handbooks and manuals Guides et manuels Amateurs' manuals Manuels d'amateurs |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Newton, Jack, 1942- Guide to amateur astronomy. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988 (OCoLC)802299810 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jack Newton; Philip Teece |
| ISBN: | 0521340284 9780521340281 |
| OCLC Number: | 15489336 |
| Description: | viii, 327 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Contents: | Amateur fundamentals : getting started : Amateur's universe -- How to locate objects in the night sky -- Buying a telescope -- Mountings & alignment -- Developing observational skills -- Solar system -- Deep space -- Telescopic sketching -- Guide to the night sky : Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring -- Locating the planets -- Compact atlas of the night sky -- Amateur observing advanced : projects & techniques : Advanced lunar & solar observation -- Mars, Jupiter, Saturn -- Tracking the asteroids -- Metrowatch : Fireflies in an atmospheric net -- Stars : classic doubles -- Challenging variables -- Close stellar neighbours -- Backyard photometer -- Microcomputers & the amateur astronomer -- Star parties & public meetings -- Notes on Comet Halley, 1986 Jack Newton -- Complete guide to astrophotography : First subjects -- Mounting the camera -- Aligning the telescope -- Guided photography -- Cold camera -- Moon & planets -- Photographing the sun -- Solar prominence spectroscopes -- Solar eclipse photography -- Photographic films -- Darkroom procedures -- Eclipse expeditions -- Build-it-yourself astronomer : Telescope of your own : grinding & figuring the mirror -- Dobsonian -- Constructing a cold camera -- Home observatory -- Build a comparator -- Sky nomenclature -- Care & adjustment -- Star colours & spectral classes. |
| Responsibility: | Jack Newton and Philip Teece. |
Abstract:
A reference work to all aspects of amateur astronomy, introducing the fundamentals of astronomy, the solar system and deep space and how to start observing.
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