Historical Perspectives -- Historical Perspectives -- Astronomical Background -- Principal Features of the Sky -- Observational Methods and Problems -- Time and the Calendar -- Transient Phenomena -- Astronomy in Cultures -- Paleolithic and Neolithic Cultures -- Antecedents of the Western Tradition -- African Cultures -- Indo-Iranian Cultures -- China, Korea, and Japan -- Oceanic Cultures -- Me…
Neutron Star Formation -- Young Neutron Stars and Their Wind Nebulae -- Neutron Star Superfluidity, Dynamics and Precession -- A Biography of the Magnetic Field of a Neutron Star -- Elementary Processes in Strong Magnetic Fields -- Drifting Subpulses in PSR B0826-34 -- Temperature Distribution in Magnetized Neutron Star Crusts -- Coupling of Radial and Non-Radial Oscillations of Neutron Stars -…
Deep Impact: A Large-Scale Active Experiment on a Cometary Nucleus -- Deep Impact Mission Design -- An Overview of the Instrument Suite for the Deep Impact Mission -- Autonomous Navigation for the Deep Impact Mission Encounter with Comet Tempel 1 -- The History and Dynamics of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 -- Deep Impact: Working Properties for the Target Nucleus — Comet 9P/Tempel 1 -- The Coma of Comet …
Review Articles -- Physical Properties of Prestellar Cores -- Impulsively Triggered Star Formation -- Starless Cores -- Chemical Processes in Star Forming Regions -- Protostellar Jets: A High Angular Resolution Perspective -- Non-Isothermal Gravoturbulent Fragmentation -- The Birth of Massive Stars and Star Clusters -- Precursors of UchII Regions and the Evolution of Massive Outflows -- Observa…
About the Moon -- The Moon’s Origin -- The Measure of the Moon -- Worlds in Comparison -- Observing the Moon -- Observing and Recording the Moon -- Viewing the Moon with the Unaided Eye -- Lunar Showcase: A Binocular Tour of the Moon’s Trophy Room -- A Survey of the Moon’s Near Side -- Advanced Lunar Research -- The Lunar Observer’s Equipment.ASTRONOMERS’ OBSERVING GUIDES provide up-t…
SCT and Maksutov telescopes - which of course includes the best-selling models from Meade, Celestron, and other important manufacturers - reverse the visual image left for right, giving a "mirror image". This makes it extremely difficult to identify lunar features at the eyepiece of one of these instruments using conventional atlases, which show the Moon "upside-down" with south at the top. Thi…
From Astrometry to Celestial Mechanics: Orbit Determination with Very Short Arcs -- On the stability regions of the Trojan asteroids -- Formal Integrals and Nekhoroshev Stability in a Mapping Model for the Trojan Asteroids -- The Observed Trojans and the Global Dynamics Around the Lagrangian Points of the Sun-Jupiter System -- Chaotic Diffusion and Effective Stability of Jupiter Trojans -- Anal…
Early Ideas about Comets -- Statistics of Cometary Orbits and Magnitudes -- The Understanding of Their Physical Nature -- Dynamics of LP Comets Entering the Inner Planetary Region -- The Oort Cloud -- The Flux of New Comets: Quiescent and Excited Stages -- The Jupiter Family -- The Trans-Neptunian Belt -- Physical End States of Comets -- Leftovers of the Solar System Formation -- Comets and Lif…
Cosmic Structures -- Gas Dynamics -- Radiation and Spectra -- Thermal Processes -- Magnetic Fields -- Disks -- Star Formation -- Stellar Evolution -- Degenerate Stars -- High-Energy Radiation -- Bipolar Flows -- Image Distortions -- Special Sources -- Astrobiology -- Alternatives -- Answers to Problems.For a quantitative understanding of the physics of the universe - from the solar system throu…
Historical Introduction -- The Standard Model of Elementary Particles -- Kinematics and Cross Sections -- Physics of Particle and Radiation Detection -- Acceleration Mechanisms -- Primary Cosmic Rays -- Secondary Cosmic Rays -- Cosmology -- The Early Universe -- Big Bang Nucleosynthesis -- The Cosmic Microwave Background -- Inflation -- Dark Matter -- Astrobiology -- Outlook -- Solutions.The bo…