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The New Amateur Astronomer

The New Amateur Astronomer

Mobberley, Martin

Paperback

Series: Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy

Astronomy & SpaceGeneral GardeningPhysics

Publisher Price: $37.99

ISBN10: 1852336633
ISBN13: 9781852336639
Publisher: Springer
Published: Sep 9 2004
Pages: 229
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.18
Language: English
Amateur astronomy has changed beyond recognition in less than two decades. The reason is, of course, technology. Affordable high-quality telescopes, computer-controlled go to mountings, autoguiders, CCD cameras, video, and (as always) computers and the Internet, are just a few of the advances that have revolutionized astronomy for the twenty-first century. Martin Mobberley first looks at the basics before going into an in-depth study of what's available commercially. He then moves on to the revolutionary possibilities that are open to amateurs, from imaging, through spectroscopy and photometry, to patrolling for near-earth objects - the search for comets and asteroids that may come close to, or even hit, the Earth. The New Amateur Astronomer is a road map of the new astronomy, equally suitable for newcomers who wants an introduction, or old hands who needs to keep abreast of innovations.

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