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Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars

By Bob Argyle (auth.) , Bob Argyle (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer London
Year
2004
ISBN
9781852335588, 9781852338602
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8282086 bytes)
Series
Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series
Pages
\329
Time added
2020-08-30 06:11:09
Astronomy

Description

More Than One Sun....Pages 1-15 Why Observe Double Stars?....Pages 17-24 The Observation of Binocular Double Stars....Pages 25-34 The Scale of Binary Systems....Pages 35-38 Multiple Stars and Planets....Pages 39-45 Is the Sun a Double Star?....Pages 47-52 The Orbital Elements of a Visual Binary Star....Pages 53-61 Orbit Computation....Pages 63-72 Some Famous Double Stars....Pages 73-84 The Resolution of a Telescope....Pages 85-96 Reflecting Telescopes and Double-Star Astronomy....Pages 97-136 Simple Techniques of Measurement....Pages 137-158 The Double-Image Micrometer....Pages 159-167 The Diffraction Grating Micrometer....Pages 169-181 The Filar Micrometer....Pages 183-197 The CCD Camera....Pages 199-208 Speckle Interferometry for the Amateur....Pages 209-229 Lunar Occultations....Pages 231-240 What the Amateur can Contribute....Pages 241-248 Some Active Amateur Double Star Observers....Pages 249-264 An Observing Session....Pages 265-272 Some Useful Formulae....Pages 273-290 Star Atlases and Software....Pages 291-300 Catalogues....Pages 301-308 Publication of Results....Pages 309-312

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