Research Catalog

Title

New horizons in astronomy / edited by Fred L. Whipple.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution, 1956.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004
• Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, issuing body.

Description

x, 181 pages : illustrations, diagrams; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Smithsonian contributions to astrophysics ; volume 1, number 1

Uniform Title

Smithsonian contributions to astrophysics ; v. 1, no. 1.

Subject

• Astronomy
• Astronomy
• astronomy
• Astronomie

Bibliography (note)

• Contains bibliographies.

Contents

Optics / I.S. Bowen -- Solar instrumentation / J.W. Evans and R.B. Dunn -- Astronomical seeing and scintillation / Geoffrey Keller -- Spectroscopy / Charlotte E. Moore -- Radial velocities / R.M. Petrie -- Astrometry / K. Aa. Strand -- Photoelectric astronomy / A.E. Whitford -- Interferometers in radio astronomy / B.F. Burke and M.A. Tuve -- Rocketry / R. Tousey -- Computing machines in astronomy / Paul Herget -- Turbulence / S. Chandrasekhar -- Astroballistics / Richard N. Thomas -- Electrodynamics of fluids and plasmas / Max Krook -- Hydromagnetic and plasma problems / Eugene N. Parker -- Earth's magnetism / Walter M. Elsasser -- Time / William Markowitz -- Geographical positions / John A. O'Keefe -- Celestial mechanics / G.M. Clemence -- Meteorites / John S. Rinehart -- Meteors / Fred L. Whipple -- Minor planets / Paul Herget -- Planets, satellites, and comets / Gerard P. Kuiper -- Airglow and aurora / A.B. Meinel -- Solar-terrestrial relationships : weather and communications / Walter Orr Roberts -- Solar physics / Leo Goldberg and Donald H. Menzel -- Spectral classification / W.W. Morgan -- Stellar atmospheres / Marshal H. Wrubel -- Aerodynamic problems in stellar atmospheres / Richard N. Thomas -- Emission nebulae / Lawrence H. Aller -- Double and multiple stars / Otto Struve -- Stellar dynamics / U. Van Wijk -- Variable stars / C. Payne-Gaposchkin -- Interstellar matter / Lyman Spitzer, Jr. -- 21-centimeter research / Bart J. Bok -- Some observational problems in galactic structure / Harold Weaver -- Galactic clusters and associations / A. Blaauw -- Global clusters observed through a crystal ball / W.A. Baum -- Stellar structure and evolution / M. Schwarzschild -- Radio sources / John D. Kraus.

OCLC

• ocm03161586
• 3161586
• SCSB-1355888

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library