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Catalogue of the Universe

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The Catalogue of the Universe is a collection and a portrait of the best known, the most unusual, the most remarkable and the most interesting of all that we know about, or at this moment, can know about in space. Each object is described in terms the layman can understand, each is illustrated with unique photographs, some prepared by a new technique that has never been used for a popular book before this. Many of these photographs are in brilliant colour.

Paul Murdin is a research astronomer at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, England, who has worked extensively at the Anglo-Australian Observatory, near Sydney, Australia. His special interest is relating the discoveries of X-ray astronomy to the universe as seen through giant optical telescopes. Dr. Murdin played an important role in the discovery of a flashing star, know to be a pulsar, in southern skies, and in showing that a black hole may be orbiting round the X-ray star known as Cygnus X-1.

David Allen has worked at the Cambridge Observatories, England, the Hale Observatories, California, and the Anglo-Australian Observatory. Dr. Allen's particular research interest is infrared astronomy.

David Malin is the research photographer at the Anglo-Australian Observatory and he has made significant contributions to the processing of astronomical photographs by new techniques that are capable of extracting extremely faint images from photographic plates.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Crown Publishers

Release: September 27, 1982

ISBN: 0517536161

ISBN 13: 9780517536162

Catalogue of the Universe

4/5 ( ratings)

The Catalogue of the Universe is a collection and a portrait of the best known, the most unusual, the most remarkable and the most interesting of all that we know about, or at this moment, can know about in space. Each object is described in terms the layman can understand, each is illustrated with unique photographs, some prepared by a new technique that has never been used for a popular book before this. Many of these photographs are in brilliant colour.

Paul Murdin is a research astronomer at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, England, who has worked extensively at the Anglo-Australian Observatory, near Sydney, Australia. His special interest is relating the discoveries of X-ray astronomy to the universe as seen through giant optical telescopes. Dr. Murdin played an important role in the discovery of a flashing star, know to be a pulsar, in southern skies, and in showing that a black hole may be orbiting round the X-ray star known as Cygnus X-1.

David Allen has worked at the Cambridge Observatories, England, the Hale Observatories, California, and the Anglo-Australian Observatory. Dr. Allen's particular research interest is infrared astronomy.

David Malin is the research photographer at the Anglo-Australian Observatory and he has made significant contributions to the processing of astronomical photographs by new techniques that are capable of extracting extremely faint images from photographic plates.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Crown Publishers

Release: September 27, 1982

ISBN: 0517536161

ISBN 13: 9780517536162

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