Tony Buick: 3 books
by Tony Buick, Philip Pugh
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Although astronomical CCD cameras can be very costly, digital cameras – the kind you use on holiday – on the other hand, are relatively inexpensive. Moreover, their technology – especially thermal noise, sensitivity (ISO number) and resolution – has progressed to a point where such cameras...
Orrery
A Story of Mechanical Solar Systems, Clocks, and English Nobility
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
“Orrery” appeals to almost anyone interested in popular astronomy, astronomical mechanical devices, scientific instruments, the history of clocks - and even the history of aristocratic and prestigious families! Many people these days – not only astronomers – have a good idea of the main components...
The Rainbow Sky
An Exploration of Colors in the Solar System and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
W here do you start to write about colors in the universe? Do you look to the deepest ocean trenches on Earth, with their awesome bioluminescent creatures roaming the blackness of the abyss? And where do you finish? With the most distant galaxies in the cosmos? A difficult question, p- haps, but in...