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- Provides all the background material needed to appreciate and understand the astronomy of the major radio sources that are observable by amateurs
- Contains the information necessary to build and use a low cost backyard radio telescope
- No previous experience in electronics is required
- Gives plans for a simple ’cook-book’ radio telescope that can be built in a weekend!
Part of the book series: Astronomers' Observing Guides (OBSERVING)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
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“Lashley (National Space Centre, UK) draws on his own work building and observing with radio telescopes and receivers and provides detailed instructions for building several radio detectors … . accessible to readers with minimal background in astronomy or electronics … . this practical guide will likely be useful to those with a specific interest in this topic. Summing Up … upper-division undergraduate and graduate students interested in building a radio telescope.” (C. Palma, Choice, Vol. 48 (9), May, 2011)
“Observing the sky in the radio domain, although perfectly accessible to the keen amateur, requires dedication and practical skills beyond those normally needed for optical work. … the rewards are great and those observers willing to follow Lashley’s succinct advice will undoubtedly increase their enjoyment of the sky. … inexperienced will also benefit from Lashley’s no-nonsense exposition. … If you enjoy a challenge as well as the thrill of discovery, there can be no better introduction to the field of radio astronomy than Lashley’s book.” (Alastair Gunn, Sky at Night Magazine, July, 2011)
“Jeff Lashley has obviously put in an immense amount of work in compiling this book and the result is a very worthwhile manual that should make it far easier for amateurs to take up this interesting area of astronomy. More than that, a colleague is seriously considering its use as a text for aspiring postgraduate radio astronomers. That is, in itself, real and deserved praise for a book that can be highly recommended.” (Ian Morison, The Observatory, Vol. 132 (1226), February, 2012)
Authors and Affiliations
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Melton Mowbray, United Kingdom
Jeff Lashley
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Radio Sky and How to Observe It
Authors: Jeff Lashley
Series Title: Astronomers' Observing Guides
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0883-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0882-7Published: 17 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0883-4Published: 19 November 2010
Series ISSN: 1611-7360
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6546
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 236
Number of Illustrations: 94 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Astronomy, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques