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Space Based Astronomy (PDF 103P)
This guide help students and teachers understand the significance of space-based astronomy, astronomical observations made from outer space. The guide contains few of the traditional activities found in many astronomy guides such as constellation studies, lunar phases, and planetary orbits. It tells, rather, the story of why it is important to observe celestial objects from outer space and how to study the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
Author(s): National Aeronautics and Space Administration
103 Pages 
Introduction to Astronomy by Prof. Saul Rappaport
This note provides a quantitative introduction to the physics of the solar system, stars, the interstellar medium, the galaxy, and the universe, as determined from a variety of astronomical observations and models.
Author(s): Prof. Saul Rappaport
NA Pages
Lectures on the History of Astronomy
This note describes the following topics: Astronomy History and science, Ancient Mesopotamian Astronomy, Greek Astronomy, Islamic Astronomy, The Copernican Revolution, The Universe of the 20th Century.
Author(s): David J Jeffery
124 Pages
Modern Astronomical Techniques
This note is a survey of observational astronomy across the electromagnetic spectrum. Topics covered includes: overview of current telescopes at all wavelengths, CCD basics, S/N and integration time, some basic concepts, Optical and UV, Telescopes and instruments, FITS data and optical data reduction, Infrared and X-ray, Data archives, object catalogs/databases, Statistics and regression analysis, Hard X-ray and Gamma-ray, Radio, interferometry basics, Non-photon signals: neutrinos, cosmic rays, gravity waves.
Author(s): Tesla Jeltema
NA Pages
Modern Astronomy Lives of the Stars
This note demonstrate the extraordinary images flowing from the Hubble Space Telescope, this series builds a picture of each stage in the life cycle of a star. An evening of star viewing in the Blue Mountains is included.
Author(s): Helen Johnston
NA Pages
Astronomy Lecture Notes and Resources
This lecture note covers the following topics: Motions of the Earth and moon, Motion and Gravity, Renaissance Astronomy, Optical Telescopes, Space Exploration, Science and Astronomy, The Solar System, Stellar Systems and Interstellar Matter, Galaxies and the Universe.
Author(s): Luca Bombelli
NA Pages
Astronomy is the scientific study of the universe as a whole, and of celestial bodies and the underlying physics governing those bodies. This Wikibook introduces the reader to that tapestry and the process that revealed it to humanity. It presents astronomy not only as a field of knowledge, but also as a human endeavor in science.
Author(s): wikibooks.org
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This book covers the following topics: What is Radio Astronomy, Early Radio Astronomy, The Radio Universe, Radiation Fundamentals: Brightness and Flux, Radiative Transfer, Blackbody Radiation, Larmor's Formula, CMB Radiation, Antenna Fundamentals, Reflector Antennas, Filled Apertures, Radio Telescopes, Radiometers, Interferometers, Thermal Emission, Nonthermal Emission, Pulsars and Spectral Lines.
Author(s): J. J. Condon and S. M. Ransom
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Skylab's Astronomy and Space Sciences
This book covers the following topics: Stellar and Galactic Astronomy, Interplanetary Dust, Observations of Comet Kohoutek, Energetic Particle, The Earth's Atmosphere and Orbital Environment.
Author(s): Charles A. Lundquist
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Forest Ray Moulton was an American astronomer.In this book he explains all the fundamental principles in astronomy.
Author(s): Forest Ray Moulton
518 Pages
In this new book, a distinguished panel makes recommendations for the nation's programs in astronomy and astrophysics, including a number of new initiatives for observing the universe.
Author(s): National Research Council Space Science Boar
82 Pages
Exploring Black Holes General Relativity and Astrophysics
This note covers the following topics: Einstein's field equations, x-ray binaries and the search for black holes, the universe, cosmic structure formation; From inflation to galaxies.
Author(s): Prof. Edmund Bertschinger and Prof. Edwin F. Taylor
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Covered topics are: What is a Galaxy?, Gravitational Potentials, Orbits in Spherical Potentials and Integrals, Orbits in Axisymmetric Potentials, Epicyclic Approximation, Equilibria of Stellar Systems, Boltzmann Equation, Jeans' Equations in Spherical Coordinates, Jeans' Equations Applied, Jeans' Theorem, Stability: Jeans Mass and Spiral Structure, Gravitational Mirages (aka lenses) via Fermat's Principle, Applied Gravitational Lensing, Weak Lensing, Clusters of Galaxies, The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect, Cosmological Parameters, Growing Modes in Expanding Universes: Jeans Redux.
Author(s): Prof. Paul Schechter
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