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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 comets
  name:
    name part: James, Nick
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: North, Gerald.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 234 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: Since comet Shoemaker-Levy collided with the planet Jupiter with stupendous force in 1994 there has been an upsurge of amateur interest in comets. Most comets are first discovered by amateur astronomers because there are so many amateurs looking for them, and techniques and instruments have improved dramatically in the past few years. After a short but detailed introduction to the comets themselves Nick James and Gerald North describe comet hunting, photographing and imaging comets, and digital image processing. The use of computers for orbital calculations and even helping to discover new comets is given a full chapter, as are advanced techniques including comet photometry and spectroscopy. This comprehensive book has an accompanying CD-ROM and is at once a "primer" for comet hunters and a reference text for more advanced amateur astronomers.
  table of contents: Celestrial phantoms -- Comets unveiled -- Comets in vision -- Visual practices -- Comets in camera -- Comets and computers -- Comets in close-up -- Improving your image -- Advanced research -- Recent great comets.
  note: Nick James and Gerald North.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Comets
  subject:
    topic: Comets
    genre: Observers' manuals
  subject:
    topic: Himmelsbeobachtung
  subject:
    topic: Komet
  subject:
    topic: Comets
  classification: QB721 .J36 2003eb
  classification: 523.6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Observing comets
    name:
      name part: James, Nick, 1962-
    identifier: (DLC) 2002030642
    identifier: (OCoLC)50510821
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    title info:
      title: Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series
  identifier: 9781447100799 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1447100794 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1852335572
  identifier: 9781852335571
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: GW5XE
    record creation date: 140711
    record change date: 20260422230342.8
    record identifier: in00003551962
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng