Astronomical Discoveries You Can Make, Too!: Replicating The Work Of
The Great Observers By Robert K. Buchheim (Paperback, ...

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You too can follow in the steps of the great astronomers such as Hipparchus Galileo Kepler & Hubble who all contributed so much to our modern understanding of the cosmos This book gives the student oramateur astronomer the following tools to replicate some of these seminal observations from their own homes With your own eyes Use your own observations & measurements to discover & confirm the phenomena of the seasons the analemma & the equation of time the logic behind celestial coordinates & even the precession of the equinoxes With a consumer-grade digital camera Record the changing brightness of an eclipsing binary star & show that a pulsating star changes color as it brightens & dims Add an inexpensive diffraction grating to your camera & see the variety of spectral features in the stars & demonstrate that the Sun's spectrum is similar to one particular type of stellar spectrum With a backyard telescope Add a CCD imager & you can measure the scale of the Solar System & the distance to a nearby star You could even measure the distance to another galaxy & observe the cosmological redshift of the expanding universe Astronomical Discoveries You Can Make Too! doesn't just tell you about the development of astronomy; it shows you how to discover for yourself the essential features of the universe