Astronomy on the Personal Computer

✍ Scribed by Dr. rer. nat. Oliver Montenbruck, Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Pfleger (auth.)

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Leaves: 322
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Coordinate Systems....Pages 7-33
Calculation of Rising and Setting Times....Pages 35-58
Cometary Orbits....Pages 59-82
Special Perturbations....Pages 83-106
Planetary Orbits....Pages 107-130
Physical Ephemerides of the Planets....Pages 131-152
The Orbit of the Moon....Pages 153-176
Solar Eclipses....Pages 177-203
Stellar Occultations....Pages 205-227
Orbit Determination....Pages 229-252
Astrometry....Pages 253-266
Back Matter....Pages 267-313

✦ Subjects

Astronomy, Observations and Techniques;Astrophysics and Astroparticles;Mathematical Methods in Physics;Numerical and Computational Physics

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