A Guide to Hubble Space Telescope Objects: Their Selection, Location, and Significance

✍ Scribed by James L. Chen, Adam Chen (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 254
• Series: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From the authors of "How to Find the Apollo Landing Sites," this is a guide to connecting the view above with the history of recent scientific discoveries from the Hubble Space Telescope. Each selected HST photo is shown with a sky map and a photograph or drawing to illustrate where to find it and how it should appear from a backyard telescope. Here is the casual observer's chance to locate the deep space objects visually, and appreciate the historic Hubble photos in comparison to what is visible from a backyard telescope. HST objects of all types are addressed, from Messier objects, Caldwell objects, and NGC objects, and are arranged in terms of what can be seen during the seasons. Additionally, the reader is given an historical perspective on the work of Edwin Hubble, while locating and viewing the deep space objects that changed astronomy forever.

Countless people have seen the amazing photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. But how many people can actually point out where in the sky those objects are? Why were these objects chosen to be studied? What discoveries were made from the Hubble Space Telescope photographs? This book is for anyone who wants answers to these questions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
The Short, Yet Surprisingly Long History of the Hubble Space Telescope....Pages 1-10
What You Need to Know About Telescopes....Pages 11-41
Spring Objects....Pages 43-64
Summer Objects....Pages 65-105
Autumn Objects....Pages 107-145
Winter Objects....Pages 147-177
The Hubble Deep Field, Ultra-Deep Field, and eXtreme Deep Field....Pages 179-188
The Planets....Pages 189-214
Call for Proposals: The HST Object Selection Process....Pages 215-218
HST and the James Webb Space Telescope....Pages 219-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-244

✦ Subjects

Popular Science in Astronomy; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques