Starlight : An Introduction to Stellar Physics for Amateurs Paperback / softback
by Keith Robinson
Part of the The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
This is a book about the physics of stars and starlight.
The story of starlight is truly fascinating. Astronomers analyze and interpret the light from stars using photometry and spectroscopy, then inspirational detective work combines with the laws of physics to reveal the temperatures, masses, luminosities and outer structure of these far away points of light.
The laws of physics themselves enable us to journey to the very center of a star and to understand its inner structure and source of energy!Starlight provides an in-depth study of stellar astrophysics that requires only basic high school mathematics and physics, making it accessible to all amateur astronomers.
Starlight teaches amateur astronomers about the physics of stars and starlight in a friendly, easy-to-read way.
The reader will take away a profoundly deeper understanding of this truly fascinating subject – and find his practical observations more rewarding and fulfilling as a result.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:277 pages, 74 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 277 p. 74 illus.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:28/09/2009
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- ISBN:9781441907073
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:277 pages, 74 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 277 p. 74 illus.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:28/09/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781441907073
