Ian Morison spent his professional career as a radio-astronomer at the Jodrell Bank Observatory. The International Astronomical Union has recognised his work by naming an asteroid in his honour. He is an honorary member of the Macclesfield Astronomical Society, which he also helped found, and a council member and past president of the Society for Popular Astronomy, United Kingdom. In 2007 he was appointed Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, the oldest chair of astronomy in the world. He is author of numerous articles for the astronomical press and of a university astronomy textbook, and writes a monthly online sky guide and audio podcast for the Jodrell Bank Observatory.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword Acknowledgments Prologue: a tale of two scopes 1. Telescope and observing fundamentals 2. Refractors 3. Binoculars and spotting scopes 4. The Newtonian telescope and its derivatives 5. The Cassegrain telescope and its derivatives - Schmidt-Cassegrains and Maksutovs 6. Telescope maintenance, collimation and star testing 7. Telescope accessories: finders, eyepieces and bino-viewers 8. Telescope mounts: alt/az and equatorial with their computerised variants 9. The art of visual observing 10. Visual observations of the Moon and planets 11. Imaging the Moon and planets with DSLRs and web-cams 12. Observing and imaging the Sun in white light and H-alpha 13. Observing with an astro-video camera to 'see' faint objects 14. Deep sky imaging with standard and H-alpha modified DSLR cameras 15. Deep sky imaging with cooled CCD cameras 16. Auto-guiding techniques and equipment 17. Spectral studies of the Sun, stars and galaxies 18. Improving and enhancing images in Photoshop Index.
Foreword Acknowledgments Prologue: a tale of two scopes 1. Telescope and observing fundamentals 2. Refractors 3. Binoculars and spotting scopes 4. The Newtonian telescope and its derivatives 5. The Cassegrain telescope and its derivatives - Schmidt-Cassegrains and Maksutovs 6. Telescope maintenance, collimation and star testing 7. Telescope accessories: finders, eyepieces and bino-viewers 8. Telescope mounts: alt/az and equatorial with their computerised variants 9. The art of visual observing 10. Visual observations of the Moon and planets 11. Imaging the Moon and planets with DSLRs and web-cams 12. Observing and imaging the Sun in white light and H-alpha 13. Observing with an astro-video camera to 'see' faint objects 14. Deep sky imaging with standard and H-alpha modified DSLR cameras 15. Deep sky imaging with cooled CCD cameras 16. Auto-guiding techniques and equipment 17. Spectral studies of the Sun, stars and galaxies 18. Improving and enhancing images in Photoshop Index.
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