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Stories of astronomers and their stars / David E. Falkner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Falkner, David E., author.
- Series:
- Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series
- Patrick Moore practical astronomy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomers--Biography.
- Astronomers.
- Stars.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer, [2021]
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Part I: The Night Sky
- Chapter 1: Observing the Night Sky and the Celestial Sphere
- Chapter 2: The Spring/Fall Sky
- The Northern Hemisphere
- Southern Hemisphere
- Reference
- Chapter 3: The Summer/Winter Sky
- Chapter 4: The Fall/Spring Sky
- The Southern Hemisphere
- Chapter 5: The Winter/Summer Sky
- Part II: The Age Before Telescopes
- Chapter 6: Anaxagoras and Hans Albrecht Bethe: The Sun
- Anaxagoras
- Hans Bethe
- The Sun
- The Geriatric Sun
- Low-Mass Stars
- High-Mass Stars
- References
- Chapter 7: Tycho Brahe: SN 1572
- Tycho Brahe
- SN 1572 Discovery and Significance
- Tycho in Later Years
- Chapter 8: Johannes Kepler: SN 1604
- The Great Conjunction of 1603 and the Supernova of 1604
- The Later Years of Kepler
- Part III: Observational Discoveries with Telescopes
- Chapter 9: Thomas Henderson: Alpha Centauri
- Parallax Measurement of Alpha Centauri
- The Alpha Centauri System
- Chapter 10: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel: 61 Cygni
- 61 Cygni
- Chapter 11: Benedetto Castelli and J. B. Liebknecht: Mizar, Alcor, and Sidus Ludoviciana
- Benedetto Castelli-Mizar and Alcor
- Johann Georg Liebknecht
- Sidus Ludoviciana
- Chapter 12: John Goodricke: Algol
- John Goodricke
- Algol
- Part IV: Astrophotography and Spectroscopy
- Chapter 13: A Brief History of Astrophotography
- Chapter 14: The Pioneers of Spectroscopy
- Terms and Concepts
- Isaac Newton
- Sir William Herschel-Discovery of Infrared Light
- Thomas Young-Wave Properties of Light
- Joseph Fraunhofer-Solar Spectrum
- Henry Draper-First Stellar Spectrum Photograph
- Gustav Kirchhoff-Spectrum Analysis
- Johann Christian Doppler-The Effect of Velocity on Light Waves
- Sir William Huggins-Tying Spectrums to Elements
- Niels Bohr-Applying Quantum Physics to Spectrums
- Summary
- Chapter 15: Stellar Spectral Types and the H-R Diagram
- Stellar Spectroscopy
- Lewis Morris Rutherfurd
- Angelo Secchi
- Sir William Huggins
- Hermann Carl Vogel
- Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer
- Stellar Spectrum Classifications from the Harvard College Observatory
- Yerkes MKK Spectral Classification (W.W. Morgan, Philip Keenan, Edith Kellman)
- Morgan-Keenan (MK) Classification
- The Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) Diagram
- Part V: Astrophotography and Spectroscopy Reveal Stellar Secrets
- Chapter 16: Edward Charles Pickering: Mizar
- Mizar
- Chapter 17: Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet: Wolf-Rayet Stars
- Charles Joseph Étienne Wolf
- Georges Antoine Pons Rayet
- Wolf-Rayet (WR) Stars
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 15, 2021).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9783030803094
- 3030803090
- OCLC:
- 1255174298
- Publisher Number:
- 99988574465
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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