Space telescopes are among humankind’s greatest scientific achievements of the last fifty years. This book looks at space telescopes not simply chronologically but also in order of the electromagnetic spectrum, making it possible to understand better why they were made.
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Dr. Neil English is an Irish citizen with a BSc in Physics & Astronomy, and also a PhD in Biochemistry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a regular contributor to Astronomy Now (the UK's major astronomy magazine), as well as to Ireland's Astronomy & Space. Dr. English's astronomical images have been published in various magazines and journals, including a full page in the June 2006 issue of Astronomy. Dr. English has, and continues to, make contributions to Cloudy Nights in the form of several detailed telescope reviews. He is the author of Guide to Mars (Pole Star Publications, 2003) and he has three books published by Springer: Choosing and Using a Refracting Telescope (2010), Choosing and Using a Dobsonian Telescope (2011), Classic Telescopes (2012). His fourth book with Springer is Grab 'n' Go Astronomy (2014). Dr. English currently has (among other instruments) a large 12-inch Dobsonian which he uses on the darkest, steadiest nights at his home in ruralScotland.
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Space telescopesare among humankind's greatest scientific achievements of the last fifty years.This book describes the instruments themselvesand what they were designed to discover about the Solar System and distant stars.Exactly howthese telescopes werebuilt and launched and the data they provided is explored.Only certain kinds of radiation can penetrateour planet'satmosphere, which limits what we can observe. But with space telescopes all this changed. We now have the means to 'see' beyond Earth using ultraviolet, microwave,and infrared rays, X-rays and gamma rays.In this book we meet the pioneers and the telescopes that were built around their ideas. This book looks at space telescopes not simply chronologically but alsoin order of the electromagnetic spectrum, making it possible tounderstand better why they were made. 324 pp. Englisch. N° de réf. du vendeur 9783319278124
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