The Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Mission Press Kit

Book Description

This is  Edition of the Press Kit for the 1969 Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Mission. It includes a great deal of technical illustrations and highly detailed information regarding all the aspects of that famous first landing on the Moon.

Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: NASA (1969)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000N83E2K
• 2,07 MB , djvu 
• price:  0.35 dollar

Schaum's Outline of Astronomy

 by: Stacey Palen (Author) 

Book Description

Publication Date: November 12, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0071364366 | ISBN-13: 978-0071364362 | Edition: 1

Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?

Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills.

This Schaum's Outline gives you

• Practice problems with full explanations that reinforce knowledge
• Coverage of the most up-to-date developments in your course field
• In-depth review of practices and applications

Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores!

Schaum's Outlines-Problem Solved.

 

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From the Back Cover

About the Author

Stacy Palen, Ph.D. (Seattle, WA) teaches astronomy at the University of Washington. The curriculum she developed there for Astronomy 101 (Introductory Astronomy) and Astronomy 150 (The Planets) has since been adopted at many universities, including U.C. Berkeley, University of Virginia, and the University of Oregon.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (November 12, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071364366
• ISBN-13: 978-0071364362
• 4,19 MB , pdf 
• price: 0.35 dollar

Philip's Astronomy Encyclopedia

by: Patrick Moore (Author) 

Book Description

Publication Date: June 25, 2002 | Series: Astronomy

The new Philip's Astronomy Encyclopedia is one of the most comprehensive, authoritative and accessible books on astronomy. In more than 3000 alphabetically organized articles and over 500 photographs and diagrams, it covers everything and everyone from the Anglo-Australian Observatory to Fritz Zwicky. Its 464 pages include a host of major articles on subjects such as our Galaxy, the Sun and planets, optical and radio telescopes, stars, black holes, astrophysics, observatories, astronomical photography, space programmes, the constellations and famous astronomers. Supporting these articles are shorter entries on planetary features and satellites, asteroids, observational techniques, comets, satellite launchers, meteros, and subjects as diverse as life in the Universe and the structure of meteorites. Scores of tables list the brightest stars in the major constellations, annual meteor showers, major variable stars, dwarf stars, energy production processes in the Sun, and other relevant data. Philip's Astronomy Encyclopedia is written by more than 100 leading astronomers from the world's universities and observatories, each an expert in a specialized field of knowledge. They have produced an up-to-date and reliable popular reference work for 2001 and beyond.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 464 pages
• Publisher: Philips; Fully rev. and expanded ed edition (June 25, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0540078638
• ISBN-13: 978-0540078639
• 25,4 MB , pdf 
• price: 0.35 dollar

   

 

 

 

 Textbook on Spherical Astronomy

 W. M. Smart (Author) , R. M. Green (Editor) 

Book Description

Publication Date: July 29, 1977 | ISBN-10: 0521291801 | ISBN-13: 978-0521291804 | Edition: 6

This well-established textbook gives a general but comprehensive introduction to positional astronomy. Originally based on the author's lecture courses at Cambridge University, it is intended primarily for undergraduates, but, due to its comprehensive nature, it is a very useful reference text for research workers in many branches of astronomy and space physics. The author considers the night sky as the celestial sphere and powerfully exploits the methods of spherical geometry. Most problems in which the precise determination of a heavenly body's position in the sky is important are considered in theoretical detail, and the necessary formulae are derived to a precision that is sufficient for all but the most specialist purposes. The present revision has ensured that the terminology and treatment correspond precisely to current astronomical practice. A guiding principle has been to re-establish compatibility with the Astronomical Ephemeris and, to a lesser extent, with the fuller explanations of the Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Ephemeris and the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. Fairly frequent comments added to the text indicate the sometimes modified relevance of the subject matter to modern astronomy. A number of additional exercises help to illustrate the new material.

Editorial Reviews

Book Description

This new revision of a standard work gives a general but comprehensive introduction to positional astronomy. Useful for researchers as well as undergraduates.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 431 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 6 edition (July 29, 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521291801
• ISBN-13: 978-0521291804
• 11,0 MB , djvu
• price: 0.35 dollar  

Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics

Dr Martin V. Zombeck (Author) 

Book Description

Publication Date: December 25, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0521782422 | ISBN-13: 978-0521782425 | Edition: 3

Fully updated with data from space-based observations and a comprehensive index and bibliography, this third edition contains the most frequently used information in modern astrophysics. As well as a vast number of tables, graphs, diagrams and formulae it also contains information covering topics including atomic physics, nuclear physics, relativity, plasma physics, electromagnetism, mathematics, probability and statistics, and geophysics. This handbook will be an essential reference for graduate students, researchers and professionals working in astronomy and the space sciences. A website containing extensive supplementary information and databases can be found at www.cambridge.org/9780521782425.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'In its various incarnations it has been a constant companion for my entire scientific career ... Compared to the last edition, the new version of the handbook has almost double the number of pages and represents a considerable expansion of the content of each chapter. Examples of improvement include updated lists of Solar System natural satellites and high-redshift objects. There are also completely new sections such as the list of extra-solar planets, none of which had been detected when the last edition was produced. ... there is a lot of material, particularly that pertaining to the basic tools of an instrument developer and observer in space astronomy, that, to my knowledge, is not usefully collected in any other single volume. It is certainly worth purchasing by anyone wanting a ready reference for basic instrumentation and observational techniques ... I have no doubt that my copy of the 3rd edition will be as well-used as the previous one.' The Observatory

'Overall this is an excellent book, one that for most astronomers, whether professional or amateur, should take price of place on his or her bookshelf as a valuable reference for years to come.' Journal of the British Astronomical Association

Book Description

Fully updated with data from space-based observations and a comprehensive index and bibliography, this third edition contains the most frequently used information in modern astrophysics. This handbook will be an essential reference for graduate students, researchers and professionals working in astronomy and the space sciences.

About the Author

Martin Zombeck was a Senior Scientist at the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is co-editor of High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of Cosmic Plasmas (Cambridge University Press, 1990).  

Product Details

• Hardcover: 780 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 3 edition (December 25, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521782422
• ISBN-13: 978-0521782425
• 5,23 MB , djvu
• price: 0.35 dollar