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978-3-540-68778-8
Continental Scientific Drilling

Scientific drilling is an indispensable tool of modern Earth science - search, as it provides the only means of obtaining ...

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978-1-4020-4839-5
Fundamental Questions in Astrophysics: Guidelines for Future UV Observatories

This book describes the fundamental problems in modern astrophysics that cannot progress without easy and wide-spread access ...

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978-3-540-74882-3
Geodetic and Geophysical Observations in Antarctica : An Overview in the IPY Perspective

This book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the scientific investigation and observation techniques of the ...

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978-3-540-31639-8
Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context

Supermassive black holes are now believed to play an important role in the evolution of the Universe. Every respectable galaxy ...

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978-1-4020-2579-2
High-Velocity Clouds

On the occasion of the retirement of Ulrich Schwarz, a symposium was held in Groningen in May of 1996, celebrating his contributions ...

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978-1-84628-046-7
How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with Your Digital Camera

Using just a regular digital camera along with an amateur astronomical telescope, anyone can produce spectacular photographs ...

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978-3-540-31641-1
Multiwavelength Mapping of Galaxy Formation and Evolution

The possibilities of astronomical observation have dramatically increased over the last decade. Major satellites, like the ...

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978-1-4020-5301-6
Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy

This book is the seventh volume under the title Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy (OSA). The chapters of this book ...

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978-1-4020-3236-3
Recollections of "Tucson Operations"

This book is a personal account of the evolution of millimeter-wave astronomy at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. ...

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978-1-4020-4330-7
Scientific Detectors for Astronomy 2005

The 2005 meeting in Taormina, Italy was attended by 127 professionals who develop and use the highest quality detectors for ...

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978-0-387-68621-9
Setting-up a Small Observatory: From Concept to Construction

Every amateur astronomer who is considering a purpose-built observatory will find this book absolutely invaluable during ...

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978-0-387-73976-2
Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration

This book tells the story of the Soviet and Russian lunar programme. The book is ideally suited to cover not only the engineering ...

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978-0-387-68817-6
State of the Universe 2007

The book cover all major astronomical news on topics beyond the Solar System and place them in the context of the longer ...

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978-0-387-73998-4
State of the Universe 2008 : New Images, Discoveries, and Events

Provides an annual astronomy review suitable for the popular science level reader to be published every September. The book ...

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978-1-84628-286-7
The Amateur Astronomer

Appendices provide extensive star, lunar and planetary maps, along with a vast amount of data and information that makes ...

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978-0-387-68360-7
The Invisible Universe : The Story of Radio Astronomy

This is the story of radio astronomy, of how radio waves are generated by stars, supernova, quasars, colliding galaxies, ...

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978-1-4020-3644-6
The Multinational History of Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory

Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory is quite an interesting place for historians: several changes of nationality between ...

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978-0-387-37622-6
The Sky at Einsteins Feet

Specifically traces the impact of Einstein's ideas on astronomy, including the way we interpret observations of stars and ...

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