A book about stars and planets. To be read to children
The sun, the moon, distant stars and the land on which we live - all this attracts the attention of the child from the earliest years of life. Helps parents in an accessible and fascinating way to give kids an initial view of the universe, to develop their powers of observation and curiosity - the purpose of the book. The colorfully illustrated book introduces preschoolers to the various celestial bodies and astronomical phenomena. To share the reading and study with parents, caregivers with preschoolers and primary school children.
Radio Recombination Lines: Their Physics and Astronomical Applications
This book is a comprehensive guide to the physics and observations of Radio Recombination Lines from astronomical sources, written for astronomers, physicists, and graduate students. It is suitable for a graduate-level textbook. It includes the history of RRL detections, the astrophysics underlying their intensities and line shapes including topics like departures from LTE and Stark broadening, the maximum possible size of an atom, ...
Lights in the Sky: Understanding Astronomical and Meteorological Phenomena
Many lights and other objects in the sky go unrecognised, or at least are little understood by those observing them. Such things range from the commonplace like rainbows and meteors, to the distinctly unusual like the green flash and ball lightning. And there is still a residuum of objects that remain unidentified by the watcher – classed generally as ‘UFOs’, a description which today has connotations of the mysterious, even of extraterrestrial visitors.
Visual Astronomy in the Suburbs: A Guide to Spectacular Viewing
Most amateur astronomers, because they live in or near cities, have to carry out their observing from relatively light-polluted sites. It is possible to reduce the effects of a poor location by the use of CCD imaging, but many observers prefer to look at astronomical objects rather than photograph them.
The advantages of using both eyes for astronomical observing are many and considerable, largely because of the way the human brain processes visual information. Binoculars – the usual kinds – are incredibly useful for wide-field observing, but "binocular astronomy" is much more than that, including binocular eyepieces that can be fitted to normal astronomical telescopes, and even giant binocular telescopes that are effectively two astronomical telescopes working in tandem.
