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Starlight

Part of the Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0708-0

ISBN: 978-1-4419-0707-3

Publisher: Springer New York - Springer Journals

Aug 3, 2009

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Chapter 1A River of Starlight

Robinson, Keith

Pages: 1 –5

[Back in the early 1980s, I swapped a pretty good quality 3 inch refractor for a “so so” 8½ inch Newtonian reflector on a fairly rough and ready German equatorial mounting (to be fair it did have manual slow motion drives which, after a bit of practice, I got to be fairly good at using, and it...
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Chapter 2Starlight by Numbers

Robinson, Keith

Pages: 7 –22

[They say that mathematicians drink a toast which goes: “Here’s to pure mathematics – may it never be of any use to anyone.” Well by that score, I’m definitely not a mathematician; at least not a pure mathematician. Let’s face it, for many people (perhaps myself among them) mathematics reaches...
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Chapter 3From Light to Starlight

Robinson, Keith

Pages: 23 –57

[During my final year at high school our physics teacher, Mr. Taylor (Mr. Taylor also ran the truly excellent school astronomical society) told us that, despite the fact that by that stage we’d learned a lot about electromagnetic waves and photons, at the end of the day physics could not actually...
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Chapter 4Space – The Great Radiation Field

Robinson, Keith

Pages: 59 –85

[Space is not empty! Well of course these days we know that it seems to be full of dark matter and dark energy, but these (can I say?) exotic things aside, the space between galaxies, between stars, and even between the particles, molecules, and atoms of the interstellar medium contains an...
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Chapter 5A Multitude of Magnitudes for the Colors of Starlight

Robinson, Keith

Pages: 87 –117

[There can be no doubt that one of the most significant ongoing contributions that amateur astronomers make to the science of astronomy is the regular observation of variable stars. Most amateur observers make visual observations that basically involve “bracketing” the variable between a slightly...
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Chapter 6The Photons Must Get Through – Radiative Transfer

Robinson, Keith

Pages: 119 –143

[If starlight shone clear and uninterrupted across light years of space and shone just as clear down through Earth’s atmosphere into our telescopes, life for both professional and amateur astronomers would be much simpler, though possibly nowhere near as interesting. However, a great deal can and...
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Chapter 7First Look Inside a Star – The Atmosphere

Robinson, Keith

Pages: 145 –173

[As astronomers, we soon learn that the blindingly brilliant visible face of the Sun is called the photosphere, and we could be forgiven for thinking that this is some kind of precisely defined surface, like the surface of a planet. However, all stars including the Sun are entirely gaseous, and...
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Chapter 8Deep Inside a Star

Robinson, Keith

Pages: 175 –214

[The great majority of astronomers, both amateur and professional, would probably agree that the most interesting part of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram is the bit that lies above the main sequence. Here we find most of the intrinsically variable single stars, and what’s more, the light...
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Chapter 9In the Space Between Stars

Robinson, Keith

Pages: 215 –233

[Another way of defining the photosphere of a star is that it is a layer within the atmosphere of the star, where a photon of a given wavelength has a roughly 50% chance of escaping from the star and heading off into interstellar space. Our “lucky” photon still has a long way to go before it can...
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Chapter 10A Star Story − 10 Billion Years in the Making

Robinson, Keith

Pages: 235 –263

[These days the story of stellar evolution could almost read like a Hollywood epic – and why not?! It is a story that probably began back at the time of the Renaissance in Europe, when the stars were first suspected as being distant suns. Over the centuries the “script” has been written by...

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