Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars

Double stars are the rule, rather than the exception: our solar system, having a single sun, is in the minority. Orbiting satellites, ground-based observatories and interferometers have all helped discover many hundreds of new pairs - but this has left enormous numbers of wide, faint pairs under-obs...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Argyle, Bob. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: London : Springer London, 2004.
Series:Patrick MooreỚ"s Practical Astronomy Series,
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505 0 # |a More Than One Sun -- Why Observe Double Stars? -- The Observation of Binocular Double Stars -- The Scale of Binary Systems -- Multiple Stars and Planets -- Is the Sun a Double Star? -- The Orbital Elements of a Visual Binary Star -- Orbit Computation -- Some Famous Double Stars -- The Resolution of a Telescope -- Reflecting Telescopes and Double-Star Astronomy -- Simple Techniques of Measurement -- The Double-Image Micrometer -- The Diffraction Grating Micrometer -- The Filar Micrometer -- The CCD Camera -- Speckle Interferometry for the Amateur -- Lunar Occultations -- What the Amateur can Contribute -- Some Active Amateur Double Star Observers -- An Observing Session -- Some Useful Formulae -- Star Atlases and Software -- Catalogues -- Publication of Results. 
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