Double Star Astrometry
Collaborations, Implementations,
and Advanced Techniques


240 page book containing 24 papers

$29.95 - Hard Cover
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Edited by
Eric Weise, Russell Genet, and Vera Wallen  


L to R: Weise, Wallen, Genet

Foreword by
Jolyon Johnson

Published by
The Collins Foundation Press
2015

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Book Description and Editors


          Double Star Astrometry: Collaborations, Implementations, and Advanced Techniques is an essential tool for the double star community; it contains information for many types of observers.  The advanced observer can read about cutting edge techniques like speckle and intensity interferometry, and multiple time domain observations, techniques which are becoming more and more accessible thanks to the proliferation of both large and small telescopes and the increasing accessibility of high speed cameras. The teacher who wants to implement a structured pedagogical introduction to scientific research can take the examples of student research in this volume as templates for their project. Astronomers interested in connecting with the double star community can read behind the scene's accounts of several institutions which bring together groups of double star astronomers; namely, the Society for Astronomical Sciences, the Double Star Committee of the French Astronomical Society, and the United States Naval Observatory. The observer who wants to try a new observing method can read up on tested techniques in speckle interferometry and asteroidal occultation, or can contemplate the issues hindering the implementation of intensity interferometry. 

          Double Star Astrometry  is suitable for an observatory library, classroom, or home bookshelf.  The editors want to inspire new collaborations and new research projects, and to encourage cohesion between the diverse groups of astronomers in the double star community.
 

Editors

Eric Weise, Graduate of University of California, San Diego - Physics and Math

Russell Genet, Research Scholar in Residence at California Polytechnic State University

Vera Wallen, Educational Consultant and Retired Superintendent of Schools

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