Télécharger le livre :  Lights in the Sky
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Many lights and other objects in the sky go unrecognised, or at least are little understood by those observing them. Such things range from the commonplace like rainbows and meteors, to the distinctly unusual like the green flash and ball lightning. And there is still a...

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Télécharger le livre :  Observing the Sun with Coronado™ Telescopes
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Scientists will often tell you that now is the most exciting time for a particular interest. We will always have just discovered or invented something that will “revolutionize” something or the other. The computer on which I am typing this, for example, is four times...

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Télécharger le livre :  Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images
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I have recently discovered the most satisfying hobby so far, and to be frank,I have pursued quite a few hobbies in my time! This one encompasses computers, optics, precision mechanics, digital image processing and artistic appreciation, and it therefore satisfies just...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Complete CD Guide to the Universe
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This is without doubt the largest and most comprehensive atlas of the universe ever created for amateur astronomers. It is the first major observing guide for amateurs since Burnham’s Celestial Handbook. With finder charts of large-scale and unprecedented detail, in...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Night Sky Companion
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Thebookyouareholdinginyourhandsisoneofthebestlearningandoutreach tools you could want for your collection. The Night Sky Companion is full of informationaboutastronomy.Thinkofhowmanytimesyouhavewalkedoutside,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Spectroscopy: The Key to the Stars
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While most amateur astronomers know about the red shift, have a general idea of the way that the emission and absorption lines in stellar spectra provide an insight into the atomic processes of the star, it is unusual to find someone who has any kind of detailed...

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Télécharger le livre :  Astrophysics is Easy!
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Astrophysics is a subject that is often - with some justification - regarded as extremely difficult, requiring at least degree-level mathematics as a prerequisite to its understanding. Consequently, many amateur astronomers just don't bother, and miss out on the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Real Astronomy with Small Telescopes
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Thesmallrefractingtelescopewithitssimpledirectdesignandconstructionand permanently aligned optics is the time tested standard for personal use. Easily portable, it can be taken out of the house and set up at a moment’s notice. Or, it can be packed conveniently into a...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Buyer's and User's Guide to Astronomical Telescopes & Binoculars
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Both beginning/novice amateur astronomers (at the level of Astronomy and Night Sky magazine readers), as well as more advanced amateur astronomers (level of Sky and Telescope) will find this book invaluable and fascinating. Amateur astronomers are always contemplating...

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Télécharger le livre :  Pattern Asterisms
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Since the very beginning of astronomy, people have looked up sky and constructed patterns – the constellations – out of the almost random scattering of stars in the night sky. The fact that the constellations are still used to day reflects not their historical origins,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Binocular Astronomy
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The advantages of using both eyes for astronomical observing are many and considerable, largely because of the way the human brain processes visual information. Binoculars – the usual kinds – are incredibly useful for wide-field observing, but "binocular astronomy" is...

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Télécharger le livre :  Creating and Enhancing Digital Astro Images
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The book will, in jargon-free blow-by-blow terms, describe how to create the best astronomical images you can with the digital camera equipment at your disposal. It will explain the steps we go through to extract results from the raw-and-dirty original imagery, and then...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Urban Astronomer's Guide
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Most amateur astronomers yearn to observe more frequently. Many of them, however, live in urban and highly developed suburban areas that are heavily light polluted. Due to this light pollution, they are under the impression that deep sky objects - nebulae, galaxies,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Human Vision and the Night Sky
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For years, the images have blazed through your imagination. They are the magni?cent full-color photographs returned by the Hubble Space Telescope and 1 its sister Great Observatories of the grand depths of the cosmos.From the “pillars of creation,”considered to be...

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Télécharger le livre :  CCD Astrophotography: High-Quality Imaging from the Suburbs
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Not all amateur astronomers who live in a suburban location realize just how very effective a ‘chilled-chip’ astronomical CCD-camera and software can be at cutting through seemingly impenetrable light-pollution. CCD Astrophotography from the Suburbs details one man’s...

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Télécharger le livre :  Lunar and Planetary Webcam User's Guide
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In the last few years, cheap webcams have revolutionized amateur astronomy by providing a very inexpensive alternative to purpose-made astronomical CCD cameras, which use refrigerated imaging chips and are thus extremely expensive. Webcams are capable of more advanced...

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Télécharger le livre :  Astronomy with a Home Computer
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Here is a one-volume guide to just about everything computer-related for amateur astronomers! Today’s amateur astronomy is inextricably linked to personal computers. Computer-controlled "go-to" telescopes are inexpensive. CCD and webcam imaging make intensive use of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Care of Astronomical Telescopes and Accessories
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Commercially-made astronomical telescopes are better and less expensive than ever before, and their optical and mechanical performance can be superb. When a good-quality telescope fails to perform as well as it might, the reason is quite probably that it needs a little...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Observer's Year
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For this new edition, the text has been brought fully up to date – and the period covered is from 2005 to 2010. Inevitably, this has meant that large sections of the book have been completely rewritten. Much has happened since the ?rst edition was published in 1998....

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Télécharger le livre :  Digital Astrophotography: The State of the Art
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In the years since The Art and Science of CCD Astronomy was ?rst published, digital imaging has been transformed from what was, in reality, a minority int- est to mainstream. Not even the most committed of CCD devotees could have predicted the few years it would take...

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