Exercises in Astronomy [electronic resource] : Revised and Extended Edition of “Practical Work in Elementary Astronomy” by M.G.J. Minnaert /

The Planetary System -- The Stars Around the North Pole -- Spherical Triangles -- Sun-Dials -- The Daily Rotation of the Earth -- Conversion of Time -- Simple Measurements with an Altimeter -- The Adjustment of a Telescope -- To Point the Telescope to a Star -- The Sextant -- Finding Your Position at Sea -- Precession, Aberration, Nutation -- Lunar Eclipses -- The Position of the Planets in their Orbits -- The Orbit of Mars, as Determined by Kepler -- The Three-Body Problem -- Atmospheric Trajectory of a Meteoroid -- Passage of an Artificial Satellite -- Position of a Geostationary Satellite -- Topography of the Moon -- The Shape of Lunar Craters -- Observation of Planets Through a Telescope -- The Rotation of Saturn -- The Stars -- Solar Quantities -- The Size of the Sun (S) -- The Solar Constant (S) -- The Brightness Distribution over the Sun’s Disc (L) -- Profiles of Fraunhofer Lines (L) -- Equivalent Width of Fraunhofer Lines (L) -- The Curve of Growth (L) -- Practice with MHD -- Sunspots(S) -- The Rotation of the Sun(L) -- The Solar Cycle (L) -- The Convection Cells of Bénard (L) -- Radio Bursts after a Solar Flare (L) -- To Draw a Constellation (S) -- The Apparent Magnitudes of the Stars (S) -- Photoelectric Photometry of Stellar Images (L) -- The Atmospheric Extinction (S) -- Stellar Spectra (L) -- Data Retrieval in Spectroscopy -- The Colours of the Stars (L) -- The UBV Photometric System (L) -- Black Body Radiation -- Combinations of Black Bodies -- Spectrophotometry of Stars in the Near Infrared -- Derivation of Illuminations from Stellar Colors -- Interstellar Extinction (L) -- Interstellar Extinction II -- Temperatures of Stars: Wavelength Dependent Interstellar Extinction -- The Nearest Stars (L) -- Stars at the Galactic Centre -- The Motion of the Hyades (L) -- The Mean Light Curve of a Cepheid (L) -- Search and Determination of Periodicity -- Properties of Pulsars and the Interstellar Medium -- Mirages Caused by a Gravitational Lens -- Forbidden Emission Lines — I -- Forbidden Emission Lines — II -- Abundance of Elements -- The Observation of Double Stars (S) -- The Orbit of a Visual Binary (L) -- The Dynamical Parallax of Binaries (L) -- The Orbit of a Spectroscopic Binary (L) -- The Orbit of an Eclipsing Variable (L) -- Light Changes of Eclipsing Variables and what we can Learn from them -- The Observation of Star Clusters and Nebulae (S) -- Open Clusters (L) -- The Distribution of the Stars in a Globular Cluster (L) -- Cluster Variables in a Globular Cluster (L) -- The Milky Way (S) -- The Spiral Structure of the Galactic Clouds, Derived from 21 cm Measurements (L) -- Stability of Molecular Clouds -- The High Redshift of Quasars.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Kleczek, J. editor., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1987
Subjects:	Physics., Observations, Astronomical., Astronomy, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3769-7
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