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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Observing Variable Stars
  name:
    name part: Good, Gerry A.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (VIII, 274 pages)
  abstract: Observing variable stars is one of the major contributions amateur astronomers make to science. There are 36,000 variable stars listed in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars, so it is clearly impossible for the limited number of professional observatories to target even the majority of them. That's where amateur astronomers come in - thousands of them turning their telescopes to the sky every night. Variable star observing is the most popular of "real science" activities for amateurs, and Gerry Good's book provides everything needed. The first part of the book provides a highly detailed account of the various classes of variable star, with examples, illustrations and physical descriptions. The second section covers practical aspects of observing, everything from preparation and planning, through observing techniques, to data management and reduction.
  table of contents: Observing Variable Stars -- The Variable Stars -- Eruptive Variable Stars -- Pulsating Variable Stars -- Cataclysmic (Explosive and Nova-like) Variable Stars -- Rotating Variable Stars -- Close Binary Eclipsing Systems -- Optically Variable Close Binary Sources of Strong, Variable X-ray Radiation (X-ray Sources) -- A General Approach to Observing Variable Stars -- Variable Star Observing -- Variable Star Observing Preparations -- Variable Star Observing Methods -- Variable Star Data Management, Reduction and Analysis -- Variable Star Reporting and Recording Organisations.
  note: by Gerry A. Good.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  classification: QB4
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series
  identifier: 9781447100553 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1447100557 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: I9W
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260422203752.1
    record identifier: in00003545184
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng