Light Pollution : Responses and Remedies /
Light-pollution is the modern scourge of optical astronomy. More and more observing sites are being lost as the glare of city lighting blots out the night sky. Professional astronomical observatories are located far from cities, but amateur astronomers often do not have this luxury. This book consid...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Springer London,
2002.
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| Series: | Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Light-pollution is the modern scourge of optical astronomy. More and more observing sites are being lost as the glare of city lighting blots out the night sky. Professional astronomical observatories are located far from cities, but amateur astronomers often do not have this luxury. This book considers the two available strategies open to astronomers - get rid of the light pollution by lobbying Authorities and Standards Organisations, and minimise its effects by using the correct instrumentation. The book contains an extensive detailed catalogue of deep-sky and other objects that - despite what one might believe - can be seen from variously light-polluted sites, for practical observers. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 219 pages 139 illustrations) |
| ISBN: | 9781447106692 (electronic bk.) 1447106695 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 1431-9756 |