Keith Robinson: Starlight
Starlight
Buch
- An Introduction to Stellar Physics for Amateurs
- Springer New York, 09/2009
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781441907073
- Bestellnummer: 6857294
- Umfang: 288 Seiten
- Sonstiges: w. 170 ills.
- Auflage: 2009
- Copyright-Jahr: 2009
- Gewicht: 439 g
- Maße: 235 x 155 mm
- Stärke: 15 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 28.9.2009
- Serie: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Kurzbeschreibung
This book tells the amazing story of the physics of stars and starlight. While it is an in-depth study of stellar astrophysics, at the same time it requires only basic high school mathematics and physics, making it accessible to almost all amateur astronomers.Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1: Introduction The River of StarlightChapter 2: Starlight by Numbers
Chapter 3: From Light to Starlight
Chapter 4: Space The Great Radiation Field
Chapter 5: A Multitude of Magnitudes for the Colors of Starlight
Chapter 6: The Photons Must Get Through Radiative Transfer
Chapter 7: First Look Inside a Star The Atmosphere
Chapter 8: Deep Inside a Star
Chapter 9: In the Space Between Stars
Chapter 10: A Star Story 10 Billion Years in the Making
Appendix 1: The Greek Alphabet
Appendix 2: Astronomical and Physical Units and Constants
Appendix 3: The Doppler Effect
Index
Klappentext
This is a book about the physics of stars and starlight. The story of starlight is truly fascinating. Astronomers analyze and interpret the light from stars using photometry and spectroscopy, then inspirational detective work combines with the laws of physics to reveal the temperatures, masses, luminosities and outer structure of these far away points of light. The laws of physics themselves enable us to journey to the very center of a star and to understand its inner structure and source of energy!Starlight provides an in-depth study of stellar astrophysics that requires only basic high school mathematics and physics, making it accessible to all amateur astronomers. Starlight teaches amateur astronomers about the physics of stars and starlight in a friendly, easy-to-read way. The reader will take away a profoundly deeper understanding of this truly fascinating subject and find his practical observations more rewarding and fulfilling as a result.
Keith Robinson
Starlight
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