"This comprehensive book is at once a "primer" for comet hunters and a reference text for more advanced amateur astronomers."--Jacket.
"This comprehensive book is at once a "primer" for comet hunters and a reference text for more advanced amateur astronomers."--Jacket.
Since comet Shoemaker-Levy collided with the planet Jupiter with stupendous force in 1994 there has been an upsurge of amateur interest in comets. Most comets are first discovered by amateur astronomers because there are so many amateurs looking for them, and techniques and inst…
"This comprehensive book is at once a "primer" for comet hunters and a reference text for more advanced amateur astronomers."--Jacket.
by Kronk, Gary W., Meyer, Maik, Seargent, David A. J.
by Kronk, Gary W., Meyer, Maik, Seargent, David A. J.
Cometography is a multi-volume catalog of every comet observed from ancient times up to the 1990s, when the internet took off as a medium of scientific record. It uses the most reliable orbits known to determine the distances from the Earth and Sun at the time of discovery and l…
by Kronk, Gary W., Meyer, Maik, Seargent, David A. J.
by Kronk, Gary W., Meyer, Maik, Seargent, David A. J.
by Kronk, Gary W., Meyer, Maik, Seargent, David A. J.
Cometography is a multi-volume catalog of every comet observed from ancient times up to the 1990s, when the internet took off as a medium of scientific record. It uses the most reliable orbits known to determine the distances from the Earth and Sun at the time of discovery and l…