Observing Visual Double Stars. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by MIT Press, 1981
- Hardcover
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- Title
- Observing Visual Double Stars
- Author
- Couteau, Paul
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication year
- 1981
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262030772
- ISBN 13
- 9780262030779
- Edition
- Ex Library.
- Item weight
- 1.102 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
Observing Visual Double Stars, written by an astronomer who has discovered almost 2,000 of them, opens the way to amateur astronomers who wish to make a direct and real contribution to science through their avocation. The heart of the book—and its technically most advanced section—presents the mathematical techniques that will allow the observer to calculate orbits and masses from the variables that have been measured. A chapter entitled "Voyage to the Country of Double Stars" describes a binary system as it might appear to an observer within it. The book also explains the use of star catalogues and presents its own catalogue of 744 double stars accessible to the amateur observer.
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Text: English, French (translation)
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