Harshaw The Complete CD Guide to the Universe

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-46895-2
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 120 Seiten

Reihe: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series

This is the largest and most comprehensive atlas of the universe ever created for amateur astronomers. With finder charts of unprecedented detail, in both normal and mirror-image views, and an extensive list of 14,000 objects, it provides a detailed observing guide for almost any practical amateur astronomer, up to the most advanced. Spanning some 3,000 pages, this is a project that is possible only on CD-ROM. The CD-R pages are extensively indexed and referenced for quick location of objects. The accompanying book gives an introduction to the Atlas, showcases the maps, describes the CD-R content and organization, and includes various appendices.

Richard Harshaw lives in Kansas, where he works as a consultant. During his 40 years of practical observing, (seventeen of them with large-aperture instruments) he has received eight Astronomical League observing awards, and has published measurements of approximately 1,600 double stars.His many published papers include Third Degree Views (The Webb Society's Deep Sky Observer, No. 121, Summer 2000); Color in Double Stars (Deep Sky Observer, No. 116, April 1999); An Investigation Into Discrepancies In the Washington Double Star Catalog (Deep Sky Observer, No. 129); On Double Identities, Recovered Pairs, and Optical Imposters in the Washington Double Star Catalog (Webb Society Double Star Section Circular No. 12, 2004); New Measures for Some 'Neglected' Double Stars of the Washington Double Star Catalog (Double Star Section Circular No. 12, 2004); Possible Quadrant Reversals in the WDS Catalog 2001.0 (Double Star Section Circular No. 11, 2003).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harshaw, Richard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;Preface;7
3;Foreword;10
4;First Light;12
4.1;Aperture Fever;13
4.2;What I Assume You Know;13
4.3;Light Gathering Power;14
5;Astronomical Mechanics;17
5.1;Modified Star Hopping;17
5.2;Polar Alignment;18
5.3;Accurate Setting Circles;19
6;Seeing Beyond the Obvious;20
6.1;The Eyes Have It;20
6.2;Do Filters Help?;21
6.3;Rating the Sky Conditions;21
6.4;Other Tricks of the Trade;21
6.5;Magnify, Magnify, Magnify;23
6.6;Seeing Galaxies;23
7;Double Stars Galore!;26
7.1;Who Was that Masked Double Star?;26
7.2;Double Jeopardy;27
7.3;How Large Is the Field of View?;29
7.4;Starlight, Star Bright, What Color Are You?;30
7.5;Putting It All Together;31
7.6;Whose Double Is it, Anyway?;31
7.7;Can this Magnitude Be Right?;39
7.8;Double Stars Move Over Time!;39
8;Deep-Sky Objects;42
8.1;Peering Way Back in Time;42
8.2;The Deep-Sky Nomenclature;46
9;Framing the Picture;48
9.1;About the "Scale Models";48
9.2;Frequent Sketches;50
10;Maps and Zones;51
10.1;A Note About Map Scales;51
10.2;It is all About Zones;51
11;Kudos to the Guilty;53
11.1;Sources and Acknowledgments;53
12;How to Use the CD- ROM;56
12.1;Starting the CD;56
12.2;The Main Menu Icons;59
12.3;Finding a Particular Object: The Index Files;59
12.4;What Is in the Support Files?;60
12.5;The Sky Albums;61
12.6;The Heart of the System: The Maps and Catalogs;63
12.7;Saving Paper;65
12.8;Saving Time;66
13;Appendix;67
14;Index;125