Author : Ronald Stoyan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 37,2 MB
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 1009364049
The first edition of this stunning reference atlas was hailed as the most comprehensive, detailed, and beautiful account of the Messier objects then available. The second edition of the Atlas continues this trend, with thoroughly updated astrophysical, historical, and observational information and new large-scale color photos for every object.
Author : Bernard Abrams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1447104412
Much is yet to be discovered about the fascinating large-scale structures of the universe. Bernard Abrams, former Director of the Deep-Sky section of the British Astronomical Association and Michael Stecker, a celebrated California-based astronomical photographer, explain what we currently know of the near and far universe and present some of the most spectacular astronomical photographs ever taken. The accompanying CD-ROM offers a veritable explosion of hundreds of beautiful color images that illustrate local and distant structures and galaxies.
Author : Jonathan Phillip Blackwell
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
About the Author Jonathan Phillip Blackwell was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and lived there until age twelve. As a military brat, Blackwell traveled to Kentucky, Tennessee, Colorado, Kansas, and California. He graduated from Washington Union High School in Freemont, California in 1962 and worked for Bishop Moving and Storage in Long Beach before joining the U.S. Air Force in 1964. Blackwell spent sixteen years in Japan and nine months in Vietnam before being medevacked out. He served in the U.S.A.F. for twenty-six years. He later drove trucks, some long haul, for thirteen years. Blackwell has played guitar in a band, and he also loves to play chess. He taught C141s and C130s Phase II school. Blackwell is interested in plate tectonics, astrology, astronomy, the mind, and making big puzzles, but his true love is writing novels. Blackwell has lived all his goals and then some. He is presently widowed and living in Ogden, Utah.
Author : John Charles Duncan
Publisher :
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 24,49 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Astronomy
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Page : 706 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Astronomy
ISBN :
"Letters to the Editor" issued as Part 2 and separately paged from v. 148, 1967
Author : Lick Observatory
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 1918
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Page : 626 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Astronomy
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Author : Adriaan Van Maanen
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Astronomical spectroscopy
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Author : Ian Ridpath
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0199609055
This dictionary contains over 4,300 entries covering all aspects of astronomy from astrophysics and cosmology to galaxies and time. Major entries include Big Bang theory, relativity and variable stars. Biographical entries on eminent astronomers are also included.
Author : Steven Coe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 2007-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 1846287294
This book presents an up-to-date detailed description and categorisation of the large range of astronomical objects that fall under the general heading of nebulae, and then instructs the reader in the best ways to successfully observe and record them. Nebulae and How to Observe Them is a comprehensive mine of information for all levels of amateur observers, from the beginner to the experienced.
