Double and Multiple Stars 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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Double and Multiple Stars and How to Observe Them With 45 Figures
Series Editor: Dr. Mike Inglis, FRAS Cover illustration: A red dwarf, shown in the background, is at the mercy of its highly magnetic white dwarf companion in this depiction of a so-called intermediate polar binary system. Gas lost from the red star is channelled toward the white dwarf ’s poles along magnetic field lines, where it emits the X-rays that make these systems so powerful. All illustrations noted ‘Courtesy of Sky & Telescope’ in the captions are copyright Sky & Telescope and Sky Publishing Corporation, and are used with their kind permission. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Mullaney, James Double and multiple stars and how to observe them. (Astronomers’ observing guides) 1. Double stars-Observers’ manuals 2. Double starsObservations 3. Multiple stars-Observers’ manuals 4. Multiple stars-Observations I.Title 523.8 41 ISBN 1852337516 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mullaney, James. Double and multiple stars and how to observe them / James Mullaney. p. cm — (Astronomers’ observing guides) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-85233-751-6 (acid-free paper) 1. Multiple stars–Observations. I. Title. II. Series. QB821.M83 2005 523.8 41—dc22
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