Sandy Antunes

DIY Instruments for Amateur Space

Inventing Utility for Your Spacecraft Once It Achieves Orbit

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What can you measure and what are your limits when orbiting in space? Learn about what physical quantities you can measure and what types of sensors you can buy or build. We cover the 5 essential design limits as well: power, bandwidth, resolution, computing... and legal limitations. Explore what you can play with using your own personal satellite.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 117
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 155g
• ISBN-13: 9781449310646
• ISBN-10: 1449310648
• Artikelnr.: 34763061

Autorenporträt

Alexander "Sandy" Antunes (born 1967 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a Maryland-area astronomer, author, and role playing game designer. He graduated from Boston University in 1989 with a dual major in astronomy and physics, received a Masters in astronomy from Penn State in 1992, and received his PhD in computational astrophysics from George Mason University in 2005. He was the Maryland Science Center "Science Person of the Month" for May 2007.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: Understanding Measurement
Chapter 2: Introduction to Instruments
Chapter 3: By Wavelength
Chapter 4: Fundamental Detector Types
Chapter 5: Detectors and Instruments and Sensors, Oh My!
Chapter 6: Colors and Brightness
Chapter 7: Resolution, By the Numbers
Chapter 8: Noise
Chapter 9: Calibration
Chapter 10: Protocols
Chapter 11: Instrument Modes
Chapter 12: Off-the-Shelf Sensor Hardware
Chapter 13: Committing, Freezing, Moving Forward
Exercises
Colophon