Basics -- Relativity -- Expansion -- Cosmometry -- Matter and Radiation -- Standard Synthesis -- Inflation -- Structure Formation and Evolution -- Higher Dimensions -- Topological Quasi-particles -- Quantum Cosmology -- MACHian Aspects -- Anthropic Aspects.Cosmology deals with the current state of thinking about the basic questions at the center of the field of cosmology. More emphasis than usu…
Young Stellar Objects (YSO) Evolution -- Outflow, Infall, and Rotation in High-Mass Star Forming Regions -- MERLIN and Puschino Observations of H2O Masers in Outer Galactic SFR S128N -- Observing Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Regions -- Evidence for Co-Propagation of 4765- and 1720-MHz OH Masers in Star-Forming Regions -- Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Regions: Theoretical Aspects -- VLBI Wa…
Magnetic Fields in the Early Universe -- Magnetic Fields in Galaxy Systems, Clusters and Beyond -- Magnetic Fields in Galaxies -- The Origin of Galactic Magnetic Fields -- Magnetic Fields in the Milky Way, Derived from Radio Continuum Observations and Faraday Rotation Studies -- Mesoscale Magnetic Structures in Spiral Galaxies -- Magnetic Fields in Diffuse HI and Molecular Clouds -- Stellar Mag…
Supernovae: Individual -- A Decade of Radio and X-ray Observations of SN 1993J -- Imaging of SN 1993J -- Nine Years of VLBI Imaging of Supernova 1993J -- On the SN 1993J Radio Shell Structure -- Optical, Ultraviolet, and Infrared Observations of SN 1993J -- Simulated Radio Images and Light Curves of SN 1993J -- X-ray Observations of SN 1993J -- Modeling the Radio and X-ray Emission of SN 1993J …
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…
Orbit Dynamics, Stability and Chaos in Planetary Systems -- Regular and Chaotic Motion in Hamiltonian Systems -- Planet Formation -- Extrasolar Planetary Systems.This book is intended as an introduction to the field of planetary systems at the postgraduate level. It consists of four extensive lectures on Hamiltonian dynamics, celestial mechanics, the structure of extrasolar planetary systems an…