Using Your First Serious Telescope - Projects for 6-inch and Bigger Models

Buying and Using Your First Serious Telescope is intended primarily for intermediate-level amateur astronmers who want to conduct astronomical research, predominantly through visual observing techniques. It is a comprehensive reference source for numerous research projects and programs that amateurs can carry out relating the Moon, planets, Sun, stars, and other astronomical phenomena within the solar system.
This is a fully detailed manual for conducting astronomical research. It includes all the necessary introductory material regarding equipment, its optimization, testing and maintenance. Even though many or most amateurs must work in light-polluted skies (at least compared to those in the locations of major professional observatories), there are still many research programs that can be conducted on solar system objects - not only the Moon, but also on the brighter deep-sky objects and transient events such as meteors, large asteroids, and comets.

List of contents

Instrumentation.- Care, Testing and Maintenance.- Observing Techniques.- Solar Observing.- Aurora and Related Phenomena.- The Moon.- The Planets.- Asteroids, Comets and Meteors.- Double Stars.- Variable Stars.- Deep-Sky Objects.- Other Observing Topics and 'Fun' Topics.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce I Wingate, Bruce I. Wingate
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2012
• EAN: 9781441964267
• ISBN: 978-1-4419-6426-7
• No. of pages: 350
• Illustrations: 100 SW-Abb., 350 p. 100 illus.
• Series: Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series; The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series; Patrick Moore's Practical Astr
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy