Overview
- A fully updated and comprehensive book about observing visual double stars
- Contains a significant amount of completely new material including the use of the Internet to discover new binary stars
- Suitable for beginners in this branch of astronomy and experienced observers who want to try out advanced techniques
- Includes a new guide to sketching double stars, and a section on how to image unequal double stars
- Full of contributions from 16 experts!
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series (PATRICKMOORE)
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
The second edition of Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars (2004) is the definitive book for those who are serious about this fascinating aspect of astronomy. It deals with equipment (you can start modestly with commercial or even home-made instruments), observing methods using binoculars upwards to advanced instrumentation and techniques, including speckle interferometry. The astronomy of double stars, including orbital calculation, is given its own section.
This second edition of this popular book contains a significant amount of completely new material, inspired by the work done by observers – particularly in the USA – since the first edition was published. This includes the use of the Internet to carry out astrometry (precise astronomical measurement) using existing survey plates and films. The new edition contains an excellent guide to sketching double stars, a topic not previously covered. In addition, there is information about how to image double stars of unequal brightness, always a difficult matter but now somewhat easier because of advances in hardware and image-processing software. Nearly all of the chapters and tables have been updated.
The CD-ROM that accompanied the first edition of Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars is replaced by access to the Springer Extras web site. The extra information includes the complete Washington Double Star and Tycho-2 Catalogs. There is an extensive database of astrometric, double-and multiple-star formation, including positions, orbits, separations, and magnitudes, and a software suite that implements many of the calculations and equations featured in the book.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars
Editors: R. W. Argyle
Series Title: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3945-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-3944-8Published: 06 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-3945-5Published: 06 September 2012
Series ISSN: 1431-9756
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6562
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIV, 419