Gerald North, Nick James

Observing Variable Stars, Novae and Supernovae

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Instructs amateur astronomers in observing and monitoring variable stars and other objects of variable brightness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781107636125
• ISBN-10: 1107636124
• Artikelnr.: 41316250

Autorenporträt

Gerlad North is a freelance astronomer and writer based in Norfolk, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Foundations, federations and finder-charts
2. Variables in vision
3. Astrovariables reckoned
4. Photometry
5. Stars great and small
6. Variable beginnings
7. Clockwork pulsators
8. Less regular single-star variables
9. Eclipsing binary stars and novae
10. Cataclysmic and symbiotic systems
11. The extra-galactic realm
Appendices.