Asteroids and Dwarf Planets and How to Observe Them
ASTRONOMERS’ OBSERVING GUIDES provide up-to-date information for amateur astronomers who want to know all about what it is they are observing. This is the basis of the first part of the book. The second part details observing techniques for practical astr
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Roger Dymock
Asteroids and Dwarf Planets and How to Observe Them with 152 Illustrations
Roger Dymock 67 Haslar Crescent Waterlooville Hampshire PO7 6DD United Kingdom [email protected] Series Editor Dr. Mike Inglis, BSc, MSc, Ph.D. Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society Suffolk County Community College New York, USA [email protected]
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ISBN 978-1-4419-6438-0 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-6439-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-6439-7 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010938909 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
While writing this book I requested the help of many amateur and professional astronomers with images, diagrams, specific projects, and those sections with which I was not familiar. I have been truly amazed with their responses – my requests were answered speedily and additional images and information were frequently offered. My only hope is that this book does justice to their efforts. First of all I must thank my wife, Jean for her support. As long as I don’t wake her in the middle of the night or interfere with her tennis she is happy for me to indulge in matters astronomical. Actually she does have more than a passing interest in astronomy, having completed the same basic course as I did, run by Hampshire Astronomical Group’s Past President, Robin Gorman. Both having had a painful bunion removed I sometimes felt that their conversation was more anatomical than astronomical! When I first mentioned writing this book she had visions of Harry Potter like riches − well you never know, but I definitely (well, almost definitely) won’t be writing another! Many, many thanks to the following (apologies for not including titles as they were not always given in communications): David C. Agle (National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jet Propulsion Laboratory – NASA JPL), Paul G. Allen Charitable Foundation, Eamonn Ansbro, Molly Birtwhistle, Peter Birtwhistle, John Broughton – Scanalyzer and ScanTracker, Michael R. Buckley (NASA Johns Hopkins University Applie
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