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.
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