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Front Matter....Pages I-XXIII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Stars around the North Pole....Pages 5-8 Some Autumn Constellations....Pages 9-11 Spherical Triangles....Pages 12-13 Sun-Dials....Pages 14-16 The Daily Rotation of the Earth....Pages 17-18 Conversion of Time....Pages 19-20 Simple Measurements with an Altimeter....Pages 21-23 Eccentricity of Graduated Circles (L)....Pages 24-26 The Adjustment of a Telescope....Pages 27-29 To Point the Telescope to a Star....Pages 30-31 Fundamental Measurements with the Meridian Circle....Pages 32-34 Reduction to the Meridian....Pages 35-36 The Sextant....Pages 37-39 Finding your Position at Sea....Pages 40-42 Parallax as a Measure for Stellar Distances....Pages 43-45 Precession, Aberration, Nutation....Pages 46-48 The Measurement of Astrographic Plates....Pages 49-52 To Grind a Telescope Mirror....Pages 53-58 Optics of a Small Telescope....Pages 59-61 The Orbit of the Moon....Pages 65-67 Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Orbit of the Moon from Ephemeris Data....Pages 68-68 Lunar Eclipses....Pages 69-70 The Position of the Planets in their Orbits....Pages 71-72 The Orbit of Mars, as Determined by Kepler....Pages 73-75 Geocentric Coordinates of a

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Author

M. G. J. Minnaert (auth.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Published

1969

Language

EN

ISBN

9789401034142

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Astronomy