Supernovae Searches For Small Observatories

Author : Clay Sherrod
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781387509935

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SUPERNOVAE SEARCHES FOR SMALL OBSERVATORIES by Clay Sherrod Pdf

There are thousands of college, university, and private modern observatories worldwide, equipped with state-of-the-art high tech equipment that only two decades ago was available to the world's largest research facilities. For the advanced amateur, and the university astronomy class, there are research projects available in which the non-professional not only can contribute real science to the body of knowledge, but provide true opportunities of discovery throughout the cosmos. In this Supernova Study Guide, the author presents the foundation for one of the most exciting and rewarding of all research quests: the search for stellar explosions in other galaxies - the Supernovae, one of nature's most rare events. This represents the first such Guide in which the author provides 300 empirically-determined galaxy targets for supernova searches and combines this vital list with the tools and techniques, step-by-step instructions, for successful supernova searches and research.

Author : Clay Sherrod
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781387537198

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SUPERNOVA SEARCH ATLAS and GUIDE by Clay Sherrod Pdf

Finally, here is YOUR blueprint to discovery in astronomy. Today's non-professional astronomers with well-equipped observatories - advanced amateurs, colleges, institutions - are now contributing more than ever to fascinating discoveries throughout space. These private facilities now contribute thousands of observations and discoveries yearly into the scientific database. One such endeavor is that of supernovae searches, exploring distant galaxies in wait for these rare stellar explosions seen from millions of light years away. But where do we look? Current sources were lacking to detail the process of discovering and reporting these events, as was a study plan with suggested objects for monitoring. SUPERNOVA Search Atlas and Guide fills this void with over 300 carefully selected galaxies, photographed from the Arkansas Sky Observatories over a three year period. This study guide takes the guesswork out of discovery and provides the ultimate blueprint for your next discovery.

Author : Gregg D. Thompson,James T. Bryan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521267218

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Supernova Search Charts and Handbook Pack/Set ICL by Gregg D. Thompson,James T. Bryan Pdf

This unique atlas contains 248 charts of more than 300 of the brightest galaxies, each specially prepared to facilitate the discovery of supernovae. The comparison of these charts with the field seen in a telescope enables any extragalactic supernova to be spotted immediately. The charts include 345 galaxies printed on translucent paper for use on a light-box, each one carrying an explanation of the constellation in which the galaxy lies, special characteristics of the galaxy, observing instructions, expected maximum brightness for the supernovae in each galaxy, and the reference for the sequence. A handbook accompanies the charts advising on their use, on how to make and record supernova discoveries, and reviewing the present understanding of supernovae. Published for an international market, these charts carry real potential for numerous discoveries of supernovae. Supernova Search Charts are is a must for both serious observers and the growing number of deep sky enthusiasts around the world.

Author : Patrick Moore
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781447109990

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Small Astronomical Observatories by Patrick Moore Pdf

In Small Astronomical Observatories, Patrick Moore has collected descriptions of amateur and small professional observatories currently in use in Europe and America, showing how many astronomers have built their own observatory, often with effective and sometimes extraordinary improvisations to reduce the cost. There is a photograph of each, along with details of its construction and a foreword written by Patrick Moore. In addition to providing a fascinating study for its own sake, Small Astronomical Observatories offers a unique fund of ideas and practical details for anyone who wants to build an amateur or small professional observatory.

Author : Jesus Gallego,Jaime Zamorano,Nicolas Cardiel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402013884

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Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics III by Jesus Gallego,Jaime Zamorano,Nicolas Cardiel Pdf

This volume contains the Proceedings of the Fifth Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (Sociedad Espanola de Astronomfa, SEA). The meeting was held at the Universidad de Castilla La Mancha in Toledo, from September 9 to 13, 2002. The event brought together 219 participants who pre sented their latest results in many different subjects. In comparison with the previous scientific meetings of the Society, the numbers of oral talks and poster contributions (122 and 64, respectively) are rapidly increasing, confirming that the SEA conferences are becoming a point of reference to assess the interests and achievements of astrophysical research in Spain. During the meeting, the SEA made public the granting of the Prize to the Best Spanish Ph. D. Thesis in As tronomy and Astrophysics for the period 2000-2001 ex aequo to Dr. A. Zurita and Dr. E. Villaver. This is the second time that the SEA is awarding this prize, which aim is to encourage young spanish astrophysicists to pursue a high level scientific career. The Society is indebted to the Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, and, in particular, to the San Pedro Martir staff, for its hospitality. It is also indebted to the Local Organizing Committee for its dedication and the good atmosphere that prevailed at any moment, and to the Scientific Organizing Committee for its excel lent work.

Author : Terry D. Oswalt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401002530

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The Future of Small Telescopes in the New Millennium by Terry D. Oswalt Pdf

This three-volume set details the essential roles that small telescopes should play in 21st century science and how their future productivity can be maximized. Over 70 international experts have created a definitive reference on the present and future of "big science with small telescopes".

Author : J.B. Hearnshaw,P.L. Cottrell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401094337

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Instrumentation and Research Programmes for Small Telescopes by J.B. Hearnshaw,P.L. Cottrell Pdf

This volume is the proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 118 on "Instrumentation. and Research Programmes for Small Telescopes", where small telescopes were defined as those ground-based instruments with apertures less than 1.5m. The scientific goal of the symposium was to emphasise research programmes which were more suited to smaller tele scopes, on which frequent regular observations can be made. A wide variety of topics on instrumentation, photometry, spectroscopy and polarimetry of objects in the solar system to extragalactic systems were discussed. Each of the four scientific days of the symposium comprised a number of invited review papers, contributed oral papers and discussion sessions devoted purely to the large number (~4) of poster papers. An introductory paper on the research potential of small telescopes sets the scene for the symposium. The proceedings have then been divided into three sections. Section I: Telescopes and instrumentation; Section II: Photometric research programmes; Section III: Spectroscopic research programmes. The diversity of topics within each of these sections indicated the extent to which small telescopes have (and can) contribute greatly to astronomical research. Dr J.A. Graham's summary of the symposium, which illustrates the opportunities available with small telescopes, concludes these proceedings. As in all symposia, the importance of the discussion following each paper was realised. The discussion was recorded on tape (and wherever possible on questions and answer sheets), transcribed and then edited.

Author : C.B. Cosmovici
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401021661

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Supernovae and Supernova Remnants by C.B. Cosmovici Pdf

This conference is a tribute to those astronomers who pioneered the investigation of this subject such a short time ago and who carried it through to its present state. (H. Arp, Concluding Remarks of the Conference) A previous conference, covering mainly the observational aspects of Supernovae, was held at the Haute Provence Observatory in September 1963. In the following ten years this field of research has considerably increased; it seemed, therefore, the right time to organize an international conference on Supernovae taking into account that in the meantime important discoveries, such as the Pulsars, had been made, and new techniques of observation were available. This book contains the proceedings of this conference held at Porto Cesareo (Lecce), Italy, during the period May 7 through 11, 1973. About one hundred participants from eighteen countries attended the conference. It was also the first attempt to hold an international conference in the Salento, the southernmost region of Apulia, in whose capital, Lecce, the newly founded Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lecce is located. The program of the conference included the results and techniques of Supernova surveys, photometric and spectral studies, statistics of Supernovae, Supernova Rem nants, and finally, theories on Supernovae and Supernova Remnants.

Author : H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1236 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781482268867

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Beyond the Desert 99 by H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus Pdf

Addressing the need for an up-to-date reference on silicon devices and heterostructures, Beyond the Desert 99 reviews the technology used to grow and characterize Goup IV alloy films. It covers the theory, device design, and simulation of heterojunction transistors, emphasizing their relevance in developing the technologies involving strained layer

Author : Alberto J. Castro-Tirado,Frederic Victor Hessman,Chenzhou Cui,Bringfried Stecklum
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832522356

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Robotic telescopes by Alberto J. Castro-Tirado,Frederic Victor Hessman,Chenzhou Cui,Bringfried Stecklum Pdf

Author : Raymond Haynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-06-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0521365759

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Explorers of the Southern Sky by Raymond Haynes Pdf

The most comprehensive account of Australian astronomy to date.

Author : Martin Mobberley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387462691

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Supernovae by Martin Mobberley Pdf

This book is intended for amateur astronomers who are readers of Sky & Telescope magazine or similar astronomy periodicals – or are at least at the same level of knowledge and enthusiasm. Supernovae represent the most violent stellar explosions in the universe. This is a unique guide to supernova facts, and it is also an observing/discovery guide, all in one package. Supernovae are often discovered by amateur astronomers, and the book describes the best strategies for discovering and observing them. Moreover, it contains detailed information about the probable physics of supernovae, a subject which even today is imperfectly understood.

Author : Albert G. Petschek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461232865

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Supernovae by Albert G. Petschek Pdf

For millennia mankind has watched as the heavens move in their stately progression from night to night and from year to year, presaging with their changes the changing seasons. The sun, the moon, and the planets move in what appears to be an unchanging firmament, except occasionally when a new "star" appears. Among the new stars there are comets, novae, and finally supernovae, the subject of this book. Superstitious mankind regarded these events as significant portents and recorded them carefully so that we have records of supernovae that may reach back as far as 1300 B. C. (Clark and Stephenson, 1977; Murdin and Murdin, 1985). The Cygnus Loop, believed to be a 15,000-year-old supernova remnant at a distance of only 800 pc (Chevalier and Seward, 1988), must have awed our ancestors. Tycho's supernova of 1572, at a distance of 2500 pc, had a magnitude of -4. 0, comparable to Venus at its brightest, and Kepler's supernova of 1604 had a magnitude of - 3 or so. Thus the Cygnus Loop supernova might have had a magnitude of - 6 or so, and should have been readily visible in daytime. A supernova in Vela, about 8000 B. C. was comparably close, as was SN 1006, whose magnitude may have been -9. While most of the supernova records come from the Old World, the supernova of 1054 is recorded in at least one petroglyph in the American West.

Author : Kurt Weiler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540458630

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Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursters by Kurt Weiler Pdf

Since the dawn of mankind, observers of the sky have wondered at the sudden appearance of new stars on the seemingly unchanging heavens and, for at least 2000 years, have recorded these phenomena in their annals and archives. Even in more modern times, since the discovery of SN1885A in S Andromeda which ?gured in the important “island universe” discussions of the 1920’s, the puzzle of supernovae (SNe) has played an important role in astrophysics. Only with the seminal work of Fritz Zwicky and Walter Baade in the 1930’s did we begin to understand the di?erences between novae and SNe and the importance of SNe as the fonts of energy for the interstellar medium and as drivers of chemical evolution in galaxies. As recently as the 1940’s and 1950’s the early days of radio astronomy were heavily in?uenced by the familiar names of Cassiopeia A and Taurus A, two young supernova remnants, and two Nobel prizes have been awarded for discovery and study of a related phenomenon, pulsars. In spite of the great age of the study of SNe, since at least the Chinese records of SN185and probably earlier, the ?eld is, in fact, very young having only attracted a large devoted following since the spectacular Type II SN1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the ?rst naked-eye SN in more than 400 years.

Author : National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : OSU:32435023323876

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