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Unique handbook type compendium
All in one from theory to practice
Supplementary material at www.springer.com
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
With amateurs, students, and teachers of astronomy in high schools and colleges particularly in mind, the Handbook of Practical Astronomy is an essential source to demonstrate trends and variety of astronomical observations.
The book presents the substance of celestial bodies for the amateur observer: the planets, the stars, and the galaxies. The sun is the local link to the other stars, the nexus of cosmic evolution. The solar system is made up by the sun and all the celestial bodies orbit it. This system is of special interest for the observing amateur. The Handbook of Practial Astronomy spans astronomy, education and computing. Like many other fields of science, astronomy has become digitized and data rich in recent years.
Besides the references at the end of each chapter, there are the notes in the margins with astronomical news and observing highlights on the web.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This is a comprehensive work on practical astronomy. Excellent illustrations (127 in color) and a list ‘for further reading’ with every chapter enhance this reference (available in print and online) that is valuable for amateur astronomers, students, and teachers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Libraries serving lower-division undergraduates, faculty, and general readers.” (M.-K. Hemenway, Choice, Vol. 47 (6), February, 2010)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Practical Astronomy
Editors: Günter D. Roth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76379-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-76377-2Published: 06 July 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-76379-6Published: 18 June 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 712
Additional Information: This book is a completely revised and up-dated edition of the "Compendium of Practical Astronomy" published by Springer-Verlag, 1994
Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Popular Science in Astronomy