300 Astronomical Objects

Author : Jamie Wilkins,Robert Dunn
Publisher : Buffalo, N.Y. ; Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : PSU:000061064867

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300 Astronomical Objects by Jamie Wilkins,Robert Dunn Pdf

A handy and comprehensive reference to the 300 most interesting celestial objects. This book provides a tour through the galaxy, from its solar core to its outer limits, with all the highlights and the very latest data about the universe. Convenient data sidebars with each entry provide facts and figures on every object- including mass, magnitude, density, radius, rotation period, and surface and core temperatures. An annotated cross-section of the object enhances this information, and a full-page photograph brings the object to life. Additional spreads bring together and explain related objects or phenomena. For example, the corresponding pages for the sun include solar power, sunspots and solar flares. Others examples include: *Mercury: Mercury's surface *The asteroid belt: Eros 433 *Jupiter's moons: 10, Europa, Callista *Outer belts and comets: Halley's comet; Deep Impact *Space telescopes: International Space Station. 300 Astronomical Objects is a handy reference for the amateur astronomer. AUTHOR: Jamie Wilkins has a degree in astrophysics from Cambridge University. Robert Dunn has a degree in natural sciences, specializing in physics, from Cambridge University, where he is a researcher at the Institute of Astronomy. 300 + colour illustrations

Author : Robert Burnham
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486318035

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Burnham's Celestial Handbook, Volume Three by Robert Burnham Pdf

Volume III of a comprehensive three-part guide to celestial objects outside our solar system concludes with listings from Pavo to Vulpecula. While there are many books on stars, there is only one Celestial Handbook. Now completely revised through 1977, this unique and necessary reference is available once again to guide amateur and advanced astronomers in their knowledge and enjoyment of the stars. After an extensive introduction in Volume I, which gives the beginner enough information to follow about 80 percent of the body of the material, the author gives comprehensive coverage to the thousands of celestial objects outside our solar system that are within the range of telescopes in the two- to twelve-inch range. The objects are grouped according to the constellations in which they appear. Each constellation is divided into four subject sections: list of double and multiple stars; list of variable stars; list of star clusters, nebulae and galaxies; and descriptive notes. For each object the author gives names, celestial coordinates, classification, and full physical description. These, together with a star atlas, will help you find and identify almost every object of interest. But the joy of the book is the descriptive notes that follow. They cover history, unusual movements or appearance, and currently accepted explanations of such visible phenomena as white dwarfs, novae and super novae, cepheids, mira-type variables, dark nebulae, gaseous nebulae, eclipsing binary stars, the large Magellanic cloud, the evolution of a star cluster, and hundreds of other topics, many of which are difficult to find in one place. Hundreds of charts and other visual aids are included to help in identification. Over 300 photographs capture the objects and are works of beauty that reflect the enthusiasm that star gazers have for their subject. Robert Burnham, Jr., who was on the staff of the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, conceived the idea of The Celestial Handbook decades ago, when he began assembling a notebook of all the major facts published about each celestial object. In its former, privately printed edition, this handbook was acclaimed as one of the most helpful books for astronomers on any level.

Author : James Mullaney
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486170923

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Celestial Harvest by James Mullaney Pdf

This book describes over 300 celestial wonders that can be viewed with common binoculars and low-power "backyard" telescopes incorporating refractors and reflectors. In addition to such showpieces as the Andromeda Galaxy, the largest and brightest of all galaxies after the Milky Way, and the Blue Snowball, one of the autumn sky's outstanding planetary nebulas, over 20 other special objects are listed and characterized, many of which are visible to the unaided eye on a dark, clear night. The sun, moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and other members of the earth’s solar system are also described, as are such bright asteroids as Ceres, Juno, and Vesta; open star clusters, diffuse nebulas, supernova remnants, spiral galaxies, elliptical galaxies, and a host of other astronomical phenomena. An abbreviated descriptive format is used to accommodate as much information on observation as possible for both field and armchair use.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015017162200

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A Master List of Nonstellar Optical Astronomical Objects by Anonim Pdf

"This work is a compendium of all known catalogues of nonstellar objects ... Every object from every catalogue is included, so that multiple listings of the same object may be intercompared. The data given for each object includes 1950.0 position, angular diameter, magnitude, and description. Approximately 185,000 listings from 270 catalogues are included. The characteristics of each catalogue are included in table 3 (see page 27), and complete bibliographical references provided at the end."--Pref. Published 1980.

Author : Jack W. Sulentic,William G. Tifft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015017183214

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The Revised New General Catalogue of Nonstellar Astronomical Objects by Jack W. Sulentic,William G. Tifft Pdf

This book is an updated version of J.L.E. Dreyer's New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (1864). In producing this much-needed work, the authors have greatly revised, corrected, and enlarged the following useful information for each entry: NGC identification number; type of object on the Palomar Sky Survey; magnitude of object; source of magnitude; visual appearance of object transcribed from Dreyer; Palomar Sky Survey description of each object; and cross references for RNGC objects. Published 1973.

Author : Thomas William Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : CHI:23151037

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Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes by Thomas William Webb Pdf

Author : Chi-Chao Wu,Qichao Wu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : HR diagrams
ISBN : NASA:31769000527393

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International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) Ultraviolet Spectral Atlas of Selected Astronomical Objects by Chi-Chao Wu,Qichao Wu Pdf

A quick reference for the ultraviolet spectra of many categories of astronomical objects. Shows reflected sunlight from the Moon, planets, and asteroids, and emission from comets. Contains the spectra for: pre-main sequence stars, chemically peculiar stars, pulsating variables, subluminous stars, and Wolf-Rayet stars. Presents phenomena such as the chromospheric and transition region emissions from late-type stars; composite spectra of stars, gas streams, accretion disks and gas envelopes of binary systems; the behavior of gas ejecta shortly after the outburst of novac and supernovac; and the H II regions, planetary nebulae, and supernova remnants. Population 2 stars, globular clusters, and luminous stars in the Magellanic Clouds, M31, and M33, are included. Finally, gives the ultraviolet spectra of galaxies of different Hubble types and of active galaxies.

Author : Charles A. Schweighauser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Solar system
ISBN : OCLC:5468739

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Astronomy from A to Z by Charles A. Schweighauser Pdf

Author : T. W. Webb
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368175627

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Celestial Objects by T. W. Webb Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Author : Gregory Vogt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCSD:31822017514803

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Software for Aerospace Education by Gregory Vogt Pdf

Author : Hans Vehrenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Galaxies
ISBN : OCLC:462212847

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Atlas of Deep-sky Splendors by Hans Vehrenberg Pdf

Author : Edvige Corbelli,Francesco Palla,Hans Zinnecker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402034077

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The Initial Mass Function 50 Years Later by Edvige Corbelli,Francesco Palla,Hans Zinnecker Pdf

Theideatocelebrate50yearsoftheSalpeterIMFoccurredduringtherecent IAU General Assembly in Sydney, Australia. Indeed, it was from Australia that in July 1954 Ed Salpeter submitted his famous paper "The Luminosity Function and Stellar Evolution" with the rst derivation of the empirical stellar IMF. This contribution was to become one of the most famous astrophysics papers of the last 50 years. Here, Ed Salpeter introduced the terms "original mass function" and "original luminosity function", and estimated the pro- bility for the creation of stars of given mass at a particular time, now known as the "Salpeter Initial Mass Function", or IMF. The paper was written at the Australian National University in Canberra on leave of absence from Cornell University (USA) and was published in 1955 as 7 page note in the Astroph- ical Journal Vol. 121, page 161. To celabrate the 50th anniversary of the IMF, along with Ed Salpeter’s 80th birthday, we have organized a special meeting that brought together scientists involved in the empirical determination of this fundamental quantity in a va- ety of astrophysical contexts and other scientists fascinated by the deep imp- cations of the IMF on star formation theories, on the physical conditions of the gas before and after star formation, and on galactic evolution and cosmology. The meeting took place in one of the most beautiful spots of the Tuscan countryside, far from the noise and haste of everyday life.

Author : William Henry Smyth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : UCAL:B4399113

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A Cycle of Celestial Objects by William Henry Smyth Pdf

Author : National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : UCSC:32106020742166

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Reprints - National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, W. Va by National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Yowann Byghan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476679501

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Sacred and Mythological Animals by Yowann Byghan Pdf

From the household cat to horses that can fly, a surprisingly wide range of animals feature in religions and mythologies all across the world. The same animal can take on different roles: the raven can be a symbol of evil, a harbinger of death, a wise messenger or a shape-changing trickster. In Norse mythology, Odin's magical ravens perch on his shoulders and bring him news. This compendium draws upon religious texts and myths to explore the ways sacred traditions use animal images, themes and associations in rituals, ceremonies, texts, myths, literature and folklore across the world. Sections are organized by the main animal classifications such as mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians and insects. Each chapter covers one significant grouping (such as dogs, cats or horses), first describing an animal scientifically and then detailing the mythological attributes. Numerous examples cite texts or myths. A final section covers animal hybrids, animal monsters and mythical animals as well as stars, constellations and Zodiac symbols. An appendix describes basic details of the religions and mythologies covered. A glossary defines uncommon religious terms and explains scientific animal names.