Titel: Digital SLR Astrophotography Författare: Michael A. Covington Språk: Engelska Format: Häftad ISBN: 9781316639931Digital SLR Astrophotography Digital SLR cameras have made it easier than ever before to photograph the night sky. Whether you're a beginner, nature photographer, or serious astronomer, this is the definitive handbook to capturing the heavens. Starting with simple projects for beginners such as cameras on tripods, it then moves onto more advanced projects including telescope photography and methods of astronomical research. With 80% revised and updated material, this new edition covers nightscapes, eclipses, using cameras with sky trackers and telescopes, and tools for identifying celestial objects and investigating them scientifically. Image processing is discussed in detail, with worked examples from three popular software packages - Nebulosity, Maxlm DL, and PixInsight. Rather than taking a recipe-book approach, Covington explains how your equipment works as well as offering advice on many practical considerations, such as choice of set-up and the testing of lenses, making this a comprehensive guide for anyone involved in astrophotography. * Amateurs with affordable, easily portable equipment now get better pictures of the sky than professional observatories did half a century ago * A comprehensive yet accessible handbook providing guidelines for both beginners and experienced astrophotographers * Includes simple projects which can be carried out with just a camera and tripod, as well as more advanced material - up to introductory research-level, for example, variable-star photometry

Author: Antony Cooke Serves as the only resource for amateur observers who specifically set out to observe dark features in the deep sky Offers detailed descriptions of how to study dark objects, including recommendations for choosing commercial equipment Shows how practical observations of dark features can be made from suburban (light-polluted) locations Contains numerous helpful individual object descriptions and illustrations

* Provides the perfect guide for observing in the field with binoculars or a telescope. * Enables observing sessions to be planned in advance. * Objects are organized by season, making the book much easier to use. * Contains core information about the target star clusters. * Features superb digital images for every object. * Full-page finder charts make it easy to locate the target clusters. Star Clusters, Authors: Cardona III, Charles A. Star clusters are some of the most beautiful objects in the night sky and are prime targets for observational astronomers as well as astrophotographers. Using some of the newer technologies and larger and more powerful telescopes available today to amateur astronomers, many more of these dazzling groupings of stars can now be located and viewed throughout the year. In this field guide that will help you to decide what to look for and where to look for it, as well as what equipment to use, you will find what you need, whether you are a beginner in the field or an experienced observer. So on the next clear night, take your book and your binoculars or telescope and maybe your camera outside and see what new wonders can be revealed to you. You wont be disappointed!

Saturn Map är ett ovärderligt hjälpmedel för observationer av Saturnus, oavsedd om du är nybörjare eller erfaren amatörastronom. Med denna karta blir det genast mycket mer spännande att titta på den förmodligen finaste planeten i solsystemet.Saturn Map & Observing Guide - språk: Engelska * Karta och hjälpmedel för observationer av Saturnus, dess ringar och största månar. * Visar typiska detaljer i Saturnus atmosfär. * Innehåller en lista på alla oppositioner till och med 2020. * Rekommendera filter för visuellt och fotografiskt bruk. * Vattenresistent för enkel användning utomhus. Storlek 64x28 cm öppnad eller 31,6x28 cm ihopvikt. Denna prisvärda Orion Saturn Map & Observing Guide är ett underbart verktyg för hobbyastronomer på alla nivåer som vill berika sina observationer och förståelse för denna unika gasjätteplanet och dess spektakulära ringsystem. Vi har packat den tredubbla Saturnus kartan och observationsguiden med vackra bilder och användbara tips som hjälper dig att få ut det mesta av varje utsikt över Saturnus. Med den här kart- och observationsguiden vid din sida lär du dig intressant information om Saturnus många månar, dess omfattande ringsystem, ringlutningscykel och mer. Kartan hjälper dig att lära dig att identifiera ljusa och mörka atmosfäriska egenskaper hos Saturnus med hjälp av officiell nomenklatur. Du kommer att uppskatta den grundliga listan över rekommenderade filter för att förbättra visuella vyer och astrofoton av Saturnus, och den detaljerade listan över alla kommande konjunktioner och motstånd från Saturnus från 2014 till 2020 hjälper dig att planera för att fånga dessa intressanta händelser. Saturnus karta och observationsguide mäter 64 x 28 cm när den är helt utvecklad och viks ihop till 31,6 x 28 cm. Den tredubbla Saturn Map & Observing Guide är laminerad i plast för lång hållbarhet samt skydd mot dagg, smuts och enstaka kaffespill.

* Titel: Life and Death of the Stars * Författare: Ganesan Srinivasan * Språk: Engelska * Utgiven: 2014 * Format: Häftad * ISBN: 9783642453830 * Explains what stars really are through basic physics and recent findings * Successfully conveys the excitement of astronomical discovery * Provides rich information and drawings on the exotic physical phenomena underlying celestial objects Motivates readers with the challenges that await them in science This volume is devoted to one of the fascinating things about stars: how they evolve as they age. This evolution is different for stars of different masses. How stars end their lives when their supply of energy is exhausted also depends on their masses. Interestingly, astronomers conjectured about the ultimate fate of the stars even before the details of their evolution became clear. Part I of this book gives an account of the remarkable predictions made during the 1920s and 1930s concerning the ultimate fate of stars. Since much of this development hinged on quantum physics that emerged during this time, a detailed introduction to the relevant physics is included in the book. Part II is a summary of the life history of stars. This discussion is divided into three parts: low-mass stars, like our Sun, intermediate-mass stars, and massive stars. Many of the concepts of contemporary astrophysics were built on the foundation erected by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in the 1930s. This book, written during his birth centenary, includes a brief biographical sketch of the brilliant scientist, which readers will find fascinating. Reading this book will get young students excited about the presently unfolding revolution in astronomy and the challenges that await them in the world of physics, engineering and technology. General readers will also find the book appealing for its highly accessible narrative of the physics of stars. This book is a companion volume of “What are the Stars?” by the same author. "I know of no other book on the evolution of stars of a similar scope and breadth that is so accessible for undergraduate students." E P J van den Heuvel Professor of Astrophysics Winner of the Spinoza and Descartes Prizes University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Orion Solar System Map innehåller tre stycken mycket intressanta astronomiska affischer från Orion. * Our solar system - detaljerade bilder och spännande information om solen och planeterna. Storlek 76 x 50cm. * Observing the moon - stor bild av månen samt ett antal detaljbilder. Storlek 76 x 50cm. * Meteor showers - spännande informationer om hur du kan titta på meteorskurar. Storlek 50 x 76cm. Affischer: Orion Solar System, Moon, and Meteors Poster Kit - språk: Engelska Leveransen omfattar 3 affischer: * Our solar system * Observing the moon * Meteor showers

This book tells the story of two giants and a dwarf. The giants, Uranus and Neptune, are mostly huge balls of gas, and they make their home in the remotest reaches of the Solar System. The dwarf, Pluto, which can usually be found even farther out than the two giants, was always small, but up until a short while ago, it enjoyed the same status as the other planets, a full-fledged member of the Solar System. Today, Pluto has been re-classified as a "dwarf planet."Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto and How to Observe Them, Authors: Schmude, Jr., Richard In this clear and succinct overview of the current research on these remote Solar System objects, Richard Schmude, Jr., tells us what facts we do know about these faraway entities, what we are seeking to know, and also how to observe them for yourself, using commercially available telescopes. He also explains why Pluto was re-classified and what it means, exactly, to be a dwarf planet. Intrigued by these objects since boyhood, Schmude has compiled a loving tribute to them, if not making them warm and fuzzy, at least making them seem less remote and bringing them into our current frame of reference, giving them personality and revealing their worth in our understanding of the structure and nature of the Solar System in which we live. Richard Schmude 2008, XII, 232 p. 9 illus. in color.

Guides observers to the best nebulous objects in the night sky from any latitude, including the incorporation of numerous Southern Hemisphere objects Authored by a recipient of the "Master Observer Award" of the Astronomical League, who is extremely familiar with the instrumentation needed to view and image nebulae as well as having a deep understanding of their properties Contains many stunning pictures illustrating the beautiful and multi-colored nebulae of the Milky Way Observing Nebulae 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-forming regions are a common target for observers and photographers. Griffiths describes many of the brightest and best nebulae and includes some challenges for the more experienced observer. Readers learn the many interesting astrophysical properties of these clouds, which are an important subject of study in astronomy and astrobiology. Non-mathematical in approach, the text is easily accessible to anyone with an interest in the subject. A special feature is the inclusion of an observational guide to 70 objects personally observed or imaged by the author. The guide also includes photographs of each object for ease of identification along with their celestial coordinates, magnitudes and other pertinent information. Observing Nebulae provides a ready resource to allow anyone with a little experience in astronomy, whether professional or amateur, to locate, identify and record the nebulae in our home galaxy. The author enables the observer to use a telescope and filters to the best advantage to see these celestial wonders, or to couple filters to a CCD camera or digital SLR camera in order to take quality images of celestial objects. By using these techniques it is even possible to make a valid contribution to professional investigations. And the views are unbeatable.

Boken för amatörastronomen som vill börja med fotometri och/eller spektroskopi. Hans Thorgren har även skrivit boken Den Spännande Astronomin.Den Kodknäckande Astronomen, av Hans Thorgren Boken är i första hand avsedd för studenter som just påbörjat sina studier i astronomi samt för amatörastronomer som vill börja med fotometri och/eller spektroskopi. Den bör även kunna vara lämplig för gymnasieelever som vill ha lite mer än vad den ordinarie fysikundervisningen ger och torde passa utmärkt för projektarbeten. Boken är skriven av Hans Thorgren fi. mag. i bland annat matematik, fysik och astronomi, med bakgrund som lärare och gymnasierektor. Hans arbetar som "astropedagog" och föreläsare och är aktiv i Västerås Astronomi- och Rymdforskningsförening och studerar astrofysik vid Uppsala Universitet.

En introduktion till solens historia.Solar History - An Introduction - Författare: Claudio Vita-Finzi Beyond the four centuries of sunspot observation and the five decades during which artificial satellites have monitored the Sun – that is to say for 99.99999% of the Sun's existence – our knowledge of solar history depends largely on analogy with kindred main sequence stars, on the outcome of various kinds of modelling, and on indirect measures of solar activity. They include the analysis of lunar rocks and meteorites for evidence of solar flares and other components of the solar cosmic-ray (SCR) flux, and the measurement of cosmogenic isotopes in wood, stratified ice and marine sediments to evaluate changes in the galactic cosmic-ray (GCR) flux and thus infer changes in the sheltering magnetic fields of the solar wind. In addition, shifts in the global atmospheric circulation which appear to result from cyclic fluctuations in solar irradiance have left their mark in river sediments and in the isotopic composition of cave deposits. In this volume the results these sources have already produced have been summarised, paying special attention to those that reflect processes in different parts of the Sun's interior and that display periodicities and trends which may enable us to forecast future large-scale environmental changes. Språk: Engelska

Den Spännande Astronomin, 5:e upplagan är en uppdaterad version av denna mycket populära bok av Hans Thorgren och som sålts i tusentals exemplar under många år. Den Spännande Astronomin, 5:e upplagan vänder sig till gymnasieelever, lärare, amatörastronomer och alla andra nyfikna på astronomi. Den ger en samlad baskunskap inom det breda ämnet. För de gymnasieelever som vill lära sig lite mer om astronomi utöver det som ingår i grundskolans NO-ämnen och gymnasiets fysikkurser så är Den Spännande Astronomin, 5:e upplagan som klippt och skuren. Den kan vara lämplig att använda som ett hjälpmedel t.ex. vid ett projektarbete i astronomi eller något annat ämne som berör rymden. Eftersom matematik undvikits kan boken säkert också fungera bra på lägre skolstadier. Den spännande Astronomin, 5:e upplagan kan även användas vid studiecirklar eller vid självstudier samt av dem som vill börja med amatörastronomi, en trevlig, lärorik och spännande hobby. Boken är lämplig för lärare som inte tidigare i sin utbildning kommit i närmare kontakt med ämnet. Den har ett smidigt format tänkt att kunna medföras vid astronomiska observationer. Storlek 16x22,5 cm, är ringbunden och tryckt i färg. 172 sidor I boken finns ett stort antal färgbilder på olika fascinerande objekt och innehåller även stjärnkartor för den som vill lära sig att hitta på himlen. Boken innehåller historiska återblickar och redovisar en del spännande upptäckter som gjorts under åren. Vidare beskrivs olika utrustningar (kikare,teleskop mm) och andra hjälpmedel att hitta på stjärnhimlen. Andra kapitel handlar om Jorden, Månen, planeterna, asteroider, kometer, stjärnor, galaxer, kvasarer och svarta hål samt kosmologi. Boken berör även den spännande frågan om liv i rymden samt den aktuella debatten om växthuseffekt och global uppvärmning. Den omfattar 30 kapitel som förutom informativ text och bilder innehåller kontrollfrågor, observationsuppgifter samt webbuppgifter. Författare är Hans Thorgren, fil.mag. i matematik, fysik och astronomi med bakgrund som matematik och fysiklärare och gymnasierektor. Som nybliven pensionär är han fullt sysselsatt med sitt favoritämne vilket inkluderar astronomstudier vid Uppsala Universitet, arbete som astronomiguide och föreläsare samt aktivt medlemskap i Västerås Astronomi - och Rymdforskningsförening.

* Titel: The Universe Today * Författare: Carlos Martins * Språk: Engelska * Utgiven: 2020 * Format: Häftad * ISBN: 9783030496319 * Gives a gentle introduction to our current knowledge of the universe and how we came to our present view * Descriptive rather than mathematical, but includes maths separately for those seeking more detail * Author is an experienced teacher and popularizer in the field of astronomy and cosmology Starting out from humankind's earliest ideas about the cosmos, this book gives the reader a clear overview of our current understanding of the universe, including big bang theories and the formation of stars and galaxies, as well as addressing open questions. The author shows how our present view gradually developed from observations, and also how the outcome of ongoing research may still change this view. The book brings together concepts in physics and astronomy, including some history in both cases. The text is descriptive rather than technical: the goal is to present things rigorously and without oversimplification, by highlighting the crucial physical concepts. The only prerequisite is a qualitative knowledge of basic physics concepts at high-school level.

Lär dig allt du behöver veta om rymden och vår galax. Läs om vår måne och hur vi rest dit. Upptäck stjärnkonstellationer och besök den internationella rymdstationen ISS som ligger i omloppsbana runt jorden. Ta reda på mer om varje planet i vårt solsystem, från Merkurius till Uranus. Perfekt läsning för alla som drömmer sig ut i universum. Lättläst bok för både barn och vuxna!

* Enables Northern Hemisphere readers to quickly determine the next celestial event they can see with the naked eye. * Guides readers through eight years of the sky's rhythms via a month-by-month almanac and annual overviews with each year's best events. * Helps seasoned observers such as eclipse chasers plan travel for events. Celestial Delights, Authors: Reddy, Francis Celestial Delights is the essential "TV Guide" for the sky. Through extensive graphics integrated with an eight-year-long calendar of sky events, it provides a look at "don't miss" sky events, mostly for naked-eye and binocular observing. It is organized by ease of observation lunar phases and the brighter planets come first, with solar eclipses, the aurora, and comets coming later. This third edition also includes a hefty dose of sky lore, astronomical history, and clear overviews of current science. It provides a handy reference to upcoming naked-eye events, with information broken out in clear and simple diagrams and tables that are cross-referenced against a detailed almanac for each year covered. This book puts a variety of information all in one place, presents it in a friendly way that does not require prior in-depth astronomical knowledge, and provides the context and historical background for understanding events that astronomy software or web sites lack.

Intressanta mysterier inom konst, historia, och literatur som kan undersökas och lösas med vetenskapliga metoder.Further Adventures Of The Celestial Sleuth - Författare: Donald W. Olson From the author of "Celestial Sleuth" (2014), yet more mysteries in art, history, and literature are solved by calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects in paintings. In addition to helping to crack difficult cases, these studies spark our imagination and provide a better understanding of the skies. Weather archives, vintage maps, tides, historical letters and diaries, military records and the assistance of experts in related fields help with this work. For each historical event influenced by astronomy, there is a different kind of mystery to be solved. How did the changing tides affect an army's battle plans? How did the phases of the moon affect how an artist painted a landscape? Follow these exciting investigations with a master "celestial sleuth" as he tracks down the truth and helps unravel mysteries as far back as the Middle Ages and as recent as the iconic 1945 photograph of a kiss in Times Square on VJ Day. Topics or "cases" pursued were chosen for their wide public recognition and intrigue and involve artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet; historical events such as the campaigns of Braveheart in Scotland and battles in World War II and the Korean War; and literary authors such as Chaucer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Byron, and Edgar Allan Poe. Språk: Engelska

Visualizes relevant physical information of stars and extended objects in an attractive and comprehensive way with different colors, symbol types, and sizes Covers the entire sky, both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere Contains position (and physical) information on enough stars to support star-hopping The Constellation Observing Atlas Designed for anyone who wishes to learn the constellations or observe the best and brightest deep sky objects and double stars, this book contains an alphabetical list of constellations complete with star maps, historical background, and highlights of deep sky objects. Each entry contains position and physical information on enough stars to support astronomers in star-hopping, swinging the telescope from star to star to star to arrive at a faint target. It provides a carefully selected list of accessible and rewarding deep sky objects. Full-color maps show the constellations, with star types (spectral and physical) indicated by the colors used on the map. Extended objects such as galaxies and nebulae are shown with the approximate apparent size in the sky. With unmatched thoroughness and accessibility, this is a constellation atlas that makes the ideal companion to a night's telescope viewing, for novices and expert amateur astronomers alike. Easy to navigate and refer to, it is the key that unlocks the door to greater night sky exploration.