Ronald Stoyan

Atlas of Great Comets

Übersetzer: Dunlop, Storm

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An engaging introduction to the critical tools needed to design and evaluate engineering systems that must operate reliably in uncertain environments. It includes over 100 worked examples and over 300 end-of-chapter problems, with worked solutions to half provided in the book and the remaining solutions available online for instructors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 327mm x 248mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 1334g
• ISBN-13: 9781107093492
• ISBN-10: 110709349X
• Artikelnr.: 41612439

Autorenporträt

Ronald Stoyan is Editor-in-Chief of Interstellarum and the proprietor of the independent German publisher Oculum-Verlag, which specialises in amateur astronomy books. He is the founding director of the German deep-sky organisation 'Fachgruppe Deep-Sky' and has authored or co-authored nine books on practical astronomy, including Atlas of the Messier Objects and The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Using this book
Part I. Introduction: Cometary beliefs and fears
Comets in art
Comets in literature and poetry
Comets in science
Cometary science today
Great comets in antiquity
Great comets of the Middle Ages
Part II. The 30 Greatest Comets of Modern Times: The Great Comet of 1471
Comet Halley 1531
The Great Comet of 1556
The Great Comet of 1577
Comet Halley, 1607
The Great Comet of 1618
The Great Comet of 1664
Comet Kirch, 1680
Comet Halley, 1682
The Great Comet of 1744
Comet Halley, 1759
Comet Messier, 1769
Comet Flaugergues, 1811
Comet Halley, 1835
The Great March Comet of 1843
Comet Donati, 1858
Comet Tebbutt, 1861
The Great September Comet of 1882
The Great January Comet of 1910
Comet Halley, 1910
Comet Arend-Roland, 1956
Comet Ikeya-Seki, 1965
Comet Bennett, 1970
Comet Kohoutek, 1973-4
Comet West, 1976
Comet Halley, 1986
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, 1994
Comet Hyakutake, 1996
Comet Hale-Bopp, 1997
Comet McNaught, 2007
Part III. Appendices
Table of comet data
Glossary
References
Photo credits
Index.