Astronomical Observation: Observatories, Equipment & Methods

This book summarizes the science to be carried out by the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array, a major ground-based gamma-ray observatory that will ...

An in-depth guide for aspiring astronomers and Moon observers from the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Includes detailed Moon maps and covers the hist...

In the twenty-first century, we take the means to measure time for granted, without contemplating the sophisticated concepts on which our time scal...

The leading Australian astronomer of his generation, John Bolton (192293), was born in Sheffield and educated at Cambridge University. After wartim...

The Galactic Centre represents a unique and extreme environment in the Galaxy. It hosts the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, its most concentra...

This book presents readers with the latest research in interferometry. Chapters include research done on an approach that can be used to identify t...

Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy ...

In the spirit of National Geographic''s top-selling Orbit, this large-format, full-colour volume stands alone in revealing more than 200 of the mos...