Title Statements
- Full title :Exercises in Practical Astronomy : Using Photographs.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:1990.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):CRC Press
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1990.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (125 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781351449328, 135144932X
- oclc:on1012346069
- LC Classification:QB47
- Dewey Decimal:522.076
Table of Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; To the Teacher; To the Student; Acknowledgments; 1: The Sun; Rotation; Sunâ#x80;#x99;s period of rotation; Area of a sunspot; 2: Minor Planets or Asteroids; Identification of belt asteroids; Distances of belt asteroids; 3: Halleyâ#x80;#x99;s Comet; Direction and length of tail; Motion in the plane of the sky; Disconnection event in ion tail; 4: The Milky Way; Photographic stellar photometry; Star numbers and magnitudes; Variation of star densities with galactic latitude; 5: Stars in Motion; Proper motion; Radial velocity.
6: Open Star ClustersThe Pleiades; Distance and age of a star cluster; 7: Globular Star Clusters; Tidal radius of a globular cluster; Mass of the cluster; 8: Interstellar Extinction; The extinction or reddening law; Grain density in an interstellar dust cloud; 9: A Supernova and Supernova Remnants; Light curve of SN 1987A; Luminosity of SN 1987A; Expansion and distance of the Crab nebula; Dimensions and age of the Vela supernova remnant; 10: Types of Galaxies; Classification of galaxies; Classification of members of the Virgo cluster; 11: Nearby Galaxies; Mass of the Andromeda g…
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