Download or read book Cartography of the Sun and the Stars written by Jean-Pierre Rozelot and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mapping of the surface of stars requires diverse skills, analysis techniques and advanced modeling, i.e. the collaboration of scientists in various specialties. This volume gives insights into new techniques allowing for the first time to obtain resolved images of stars. It takes stock of what has been achieved so far in Chile, on the ESO VLTI instrument or, in the States, on the CHARA instrument. In recent times interferometry, combined with adaptive optics has allowed to reconstruct images of stars. Besides the Sun (of course) by now five stars have been resolved in detail. In addition to interferometry, this book highlights techniques used for mapping the surfaces of stars using photometry made by space observatories; Zeeman- and Doppler Imaging; mapping the surface element abundances via spectroscopy. This book will also take stock of the best images of the solar surface, made by connecting the differential rotation to the underlying physical parameters derived from helioseismology. Recent measurements of flattening of the solar surface by SDO showed that the Sun’s shape is linked to the rotation of the core. It is shown how such a result is generalizable to the stars.
Download or read book Star Maps written by Nick Kanas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the publication of the first edition of 'Star Maps,' books were either general histories of astronomy using examples of antiquarian celestial maps as illustrations, or catalogs of celestial atlases that failed to trace the flow of sky map development over time. The second edition focuses on the development of contemporary views of the heavens and advances in map-making. It captures the beauty and awe of the heavens through images from antiquarian celestial prints and star atlases. This book uniquely combines a number of features: 1) the history of celestial cartography is traced from ancient to modern times; 2) this development is integrated with contemporary cosmological systems; 3) the artistry of sky maps is shown using beautiful color images from actual celestial atlases and prints; 4) each illustration is accompanied by a legend explaining what is being shown; and 5) the text is written for the lay reader based on the author's experience with writing articles for amateur astronomy and map collector magazines. This updated second edition of 'Star Maps' contains over 50 new pages of text and 44 new images (16 in color), including completely new sections on celestial frontispieces, deep-sky objects, playing card maps, additional cartographers, and modern computerized star maps. There is also expanded material about celestial globes, volvelles, telescopes, and planets and asteroids.
Download or read book Sun and Moon written by Mark Holborn and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spectacular pictorial history of astronomical exploration, for anyone who has gazed at the sky and wondered what lies beyond From the beginning of time, human beings have looked up at the stars and speculated on other worlds. Published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing, Sun and Moon tells the story of that burning human need to comprehend the universe, from Neolithic observatories that mark the solstice to the latest space telescopes. It shows, for the first time, how the development of photography and cartography – the means of documenting other worlds – is linked indelibly to the charting of the heavens, from the first image on a glass plate to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Download or read book A Map to the Sun written by Sloane Leong and published by First Second. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Map to the Sun is a gripping YA graphic novel about five principle players in a struggling girls' basketball team. One summer day, Ren meets Luna at a beachside basketball court and a friendship is born. But when Luna moves to back to Oahu, Ren’s messages to her friend go unanswered. Years go by. Then Luna returns, hoping to rekindle their friendship. Ren is hesitant. She's dealing with a lot, including family troubles, dropping grades, and the newly formed women's basketball team at their high school. With Ren’s new friends and Luna all on the basketball team, the lines between their lives on and off the court begin to blur. During their first season, this diverse and endearing group of teens are challenged in ways that make them reevaluate just who and how they trust. Sloane Leong’s evocative storytelling about the lives of these young women is an ode to the dynamic nature of friendship. *Lettering by Aditya Bidikar
Download or read book Star Maps for Beginners written by I.M. Levitt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's maps, which divide the sky into quadrants, and explanations of the constellations are designed to simplify study for the amateur astronomer.
Download or read book The Great Star Map Being of Brief General Account of the International Project Known as the Astrographic Chart Classic Reprint written by Herbert Hall Turner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Great Star Map, Being of Brief General Account of the International Project Known as the Astrographic Chart From that of the amateur photographer he uses a much longer camera he drives the camera by clockwork so that it may follow the stars; and he takes pictures at night instead of in the daytime. It may per haps be added that he uses the light emitted by the stars, instead of photographing Objects by the reflected light of the sun. But of these details more presently. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Road Map of the Stars Classic Reprint written by Albert Ross Parsons and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Road Map, of the Stars The earth is a huge observation car in which we are ceaselessly touring through the stars, while the sublime outlook, north, east, south and west is forever changing at the rate of one degree every four minutes, or I 5 degrees per hour, by the daily rotation Of the earth on its axis; and 30 degrees per month, at a given hour, by the annual revolution of the earth around the sun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Map of Salt and Stars written by Zeyn Joukhadar and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker’s apprentice—“perfectly aligns with the cultural moment” (The Providence Journal) and “shows how interconnected two supposedly opposing worlds can be” (The New York Times Book Review). This “beguiling” (Seattle Times) and stunning novel begins in the summer of 2011. Nour has just lost her father to cancer, and her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. In order to keep her father’s spirit alive as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story—the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous mapmaker. But the Syria Nour’s parents knew is changing, and it isn’t long before the war reaches their quiet Homs neighborhood. When a shell destroys Nour’s house and almost takes her life, she and her family are forced to choose: stay and risk more violence or flee across seven countries of the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety—along the very route Rawiya and her mapmaker took eight hundred years before in their quest to chart the world. As Nour’s family decides to take the risk, their journey becomes more and more dangerous, until they face a choice that could mean the family will be separated forever. Following alternating timelines and a pair of unforgettable heroines coming of age in perilous times, The Map of Salt and Stars is the “magical and heart-wrenching” (Christian Science Monitor) story of one girl telling herself the legend of another and learning that, if you listen to your own voice, some things can never be lost.
Download or read book Mapping the Sky written by Pamela Dell and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2011 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth is one small speak among billions of stars, planets, and moons. So how can we figure out where it is in the universe? The answer is sky maps and charts! Maps can tell us where Earth is located in the huge star system we call the Milky Way galaxy. Charts can help us explore other planets and the Moon. They can even help us study the stars. Begin your adventure as an astronomer by using maps and star charts to learn about what you can see in the night sky-and what you can't see! Book jacket.
Download or read book The Stars how to Know Them and how to Use Them Illustrated with Diagrams and Maps of the Stars written by William Henry Rosser and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Solar System Maps written by Nick Kanas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, there has been increased interest in our Solar System. This has been prompted by the launching of giant orbiting telescopes and space probes, the discovery of new planetary moons and heavenly bodies that orbit the Sun, and the demotion of Pluto as a planet. In one generation, our place in the heavens has been challenged, but this is not unusual. Throughout history, there have been a number of such world views. Initially, Earth was seen as the center of the universe and surrounded by orbiting planets and stars. Then the Sun became the center of the cosmos. Finally, there was no center, just a vast array of galaxies with individual stars, some with their own retinue of planets. This allowed our Solar System to be differentiated from deep-sky objects, but it didn’t lose its mystery as more and more remarkable bodies were discovered within its boundaries. This book tells the exciting story of how we have conceptualized and mapped our Solar System from antiquity to modern times. In addition to the complete text, this story is made more vivid by: • 162 Solar System and planetary maps, diagrams, and images (over a third in color); • direct quotes and figures from antiquarian, contemporary, and Space Age documents and photographs that allow the reader to track how humans have viewed the Solar System from original sources; • nine tables that compare the various world views, relative planetary positions, and components of the Solar System with each other. Broad in scope and rich in imagery, this book will draw the reader into the story of our Solar System and how it has been mapped since the beginning of recorded time.
Download or read book The constellations and how to find them written by sir William Peck and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Star Map written by Herbert Hall Turner and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Star Maps for Beginners written by Israel Monroe Levitt and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1980 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Road Map of the Stars written by Albert Ross Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Photographic Atlas of the Stars written by H J P Arnold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Photographic Atlas of the Stars contains 50, high-quality full color photographs of the entire night sky of the northern and southern hemispheres. Each plate is accompanied by a star map of the identical area, which identifies the main stars of the constituent constellations as well as other interesting astronomical objects. In addition to this detail, Sir Patrick Moore has written a commentary for each plate that highlights the stars and objects of interest to observers equipped with binoculars and that includes detailed tabular information on astronomical objects of the region. The resulting double-page spread provides an invaluable reference for the amateur astronomer, detailing the constellations and other heavenly bodies of interest that are observable with the naked eye, binoculars, or a small telescope.
Download or read book 3 D Star Maps written by Richard Monkhouse and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-dimensional glasses packed inside each copy of this phenomenal new book offer an in-depth view of the universe as never before presented. 20 full-color photos and drawings; 27 3-D maps; 27 black-and-white maps. Includes 2 sets of 3-D glasses.
