Popular astronomy & space (99)

publisher: Springer
year: 2005
description:In 1967, Lunar Orbiter Mission 4 sent back to Earth a superb series of photographs of the surface of the Moon, despite severe degradation caused by scanning artifacts and the reconstruction processes involved in transmission from lunar orbit.Using 21...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:In this updated version of his classic on deep-sky imaging, astrophotographer Greg Parker describes how the latest technology can help amateur astronomers process their own beautiful images. Whether you are taking your own images from a backyard syst...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book introduces the reader to the wonders of Mars, covering all aspects from our past perceptions of the planet through to the latest knowledge on its history, its surface processes such as impact cratering, volcano formation, and glaciation, an...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:Claus Grupen erörtert in diesem essential in einem kurzen historischen Abriss die Astroteilchenphysik und beschreibt die neuesten Resultate, ohne ins mathematische Detail zu gehen. Als Einstieg in dieses neue Forschungsgebiet verstanden, gibt er ei...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book contains everything you need to know about variable stars -- stars whose brightness varies noticeably over time. The study of variable stars has been a particularly popular area of research for amateurs for many years; the material containe...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book enables anyone with suitable instruments to undertake an examination of nebulae and see or photograph them in detail. Nebulae, ethereal clouds of gas and dust, are among the most beautiful objects to view in the night sky. These star-formin...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Keeping in mind that we can only see the universe from the comfort of our home galaxy, Bascom begins his text by meticulously laying the necessary groundwork to understand the Big Bang’s mathematics without using any equations. He then paints a freez...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book introduces the Martian simulations of The Mars Society, the first one installed on Devon Island, an uninhabited island in the Canadian Arctic, well within the polar circle, and the second in the desert of Utah, several hundreds of kilometer...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:If you have ever wanted to understand the basic principles of astronomy and celestial movements, you should read this book. Using pictures of the sky observed from different places on Earth, as well as drawings of ancient astronomical methods and too...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:Polarlichter haben die Menschen schon seit frühen Zeiten erschreckt oder verzaubert. In Märchen Sagen und anderen Geschichten wurden Deutungen geschaffen, die sich um Götter, Helden, Fabelwesen oder auch Tiere ranken. Seit dem Altertum gibt es auch g...

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:Today's astronauts require many different abilities. They must not only be expert in performing flight simulations but must also be proficient in such dissimilar subjects as photography, thermodynamics, electrical repairs, flight procedures, oceanogr...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Aliens, flying saucers, ESP, the Bermuda Triangle, antigravity … are we talking about science fiction or pseudoscience? Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference. Both pseudoscience and science fiction (SF) are creative endeavours that have...