This is a thorough introduction to observatories that have made particularly important observational and theoretical advances in the field of astronomy, and to the astronomers who made them famous.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 247 mm
Breite: 174 mm
Dicke: 21 mm
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978-0-521-30278-4 (9780521302784)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Kevin Krisciunas is an observational astronomer who works at Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas. He co-discovered a class of pulsating stars whose prototype is gamma Doradus, and he is an expert on the photometric properties of Type Ia supernovae.
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United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Unit, Hawaii
Preface; Acknowledgements; A note on nomenclature; 1. The Alexandrian Museum; 2. Astronomical capitals of the Moslem world; 3. Tycho Brahe's Observatory at Hven; 4. Paris and Greenwich; 5. Pulkovo Observatory; 6. Harvard, Lick and Yerkes and the rise of astrophysics; 7. Mt Wilson and Palomar; 8. The present; 9. The future; Appendix; Notes; Index.
