Astronomical Observation: Observatories, Equipment & Methods

This book highlights key technologies of signal processing in pulsar-based navigation. It discusses the modeling, simulation, acquisition, and corr...

'fascinating' Brian Cox This is the story of citizen science. Where once astronomers sat at the controls of giant telescopes in remote locations...

This book explores the Galilean method for geolocation, placing it in historical and astronomical context. It bridges the techniques developed by t...

Stars Above, Earth Below uses photographs and sky charts to form a connection between what is seen on the ground and in the sky, and looks at the d...

This book reviews the state of the art in the exploitation of machine learning techniques for the astrophysics community and gives the reader a com...

This book offers an updated comprehensive review of the rapidly expanding field of GRMHD simulations. In Part I, it reviews the basic equations for...

This book offers new findings on the impact of galaxy mergers on galaxy evolution and related processes. Galaxies are astronomical objects composed...

This is the fourth set of studies in the Variorum series by David King, a leading authority on the history of astronomy in Islamic civilization and...

Black holes are one of the most fascinating predictions of general relativity. They are the natural product of the complete gravitational collaps...

Machine Learning for Small Bodies in the Solar System provides the latest developments and methods in applications of Machine Learning (ML) and Art...

Our goal is to produce a comprehensive handbook of the current state of the art of astronomical instrumentation with a forward view encompassing th...

Orbital motions have always been used to test gravitational theories which, from time to time, have challenged the then-dominant paradigms. This bo...

This is a set offering the Springer books Alessandro Piccolominis Early Astronomical Works: I. An Exploration of Their Cultural Significance (ISBN ...

Ausgehend von der Zeit Newtons befasst sich diese Fortsetzung des Springer-Buches Unser Platz im Universum: Astronomie anhand alter Entdeckungen v...

A stunning gift for admirers of astrophotography. From the number one Astronomy publisher, this book showcases the most spectacular space...

The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes-and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mi...

This book marks the centenary of the remarkable invention of an opto-mechanical planetarium projector, the Zeiss Mk I. In May 1925, the first publi...

This book is a systematic introduction to astrometry and celestial mechanics. It consists of five parts: Observational astrometry, theoretical astr...

Written by its former Director, this book presents a historical account of the famous Arecibo Observatory and its 305-meter radio astronomical tele...

This thesis presents a novel analysis of a photometric observational feature of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia), the most precise distance indicators a...