Viewing and Imaging the Solar System: A Guide for Amateur Astronomers: 7 (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series) - Tapa blanda

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Dr. Jane D. Clark holds a Bachelor of Science with first class honors in Physics, from London University, England, as well as a PhD in Physics from Warwick University, England. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at Case Western Reserve University in the USA. Currently she is Managing Director of 'Fine R and D Limited.' Clark become interested in the Solar System as a specialty. She enthusiastically embraced the webcam astronomy revolution of the first decade of the 21st century, and more recently the DSLR revolution to image and track the planets and asteroids.

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Viewing and Imaging the Solar System: A Guide for Amateur Astronomers is for those who want to develop their ability to observe and image Solar System objects, including the planets and moons, the Sun, and comets and asteroids. They might be beginners, or they may have already owned and used an astronomical telescope for a year or more.

Newcomers are almost always wowed by sights such as the rings of Saturn and the moons of Jupiter, but have little idea how to find these objects for themselves (with the obvious exceptions of the Sun and Moon). They also need guidance about what equipment to use, besides a telescope.

This book is written by an expert on the Solar System, who has had a lot of experience with outreach programs, which teach others how to make the most of relatively simple and low-cost equipment. That does not mean that this book is not for serious amateurs. On the contrary, it is designed to show amateur astronomers, in a relatively light-hearted and math-free way how to become serious.