From the Earth to the Universe. General Astronomy: Theoretical and Practical
Authors: DAVID GALADI and JORDI GUTIÉRREZ with photographs by VICENT PERIS
Publisher: AKAL
Publication date: 21/3/2022
This work is a comprehensive, complete and up-to-date monograph for beginner and advanced amateur astronomers. It is also a valuable source of information for secondary school teachers and serves as a textbook for university students. Its authors are two professional astronomers who have captured in this extensive, rigorous and detailed work all the relevant issues of classical and modern astronomy.
This is the 2nd revised edition of their bestseller GENERAL ASTRONOMY: THEORY AND PRACTICE but with updated, revised and extended content in line with new technologies and recent discoveries.
De la Tierra al universo, the definitive work on astronomy in Spanish, is an essential reference for beginners and advanced amateurs and is a rich source of information for non-university teachers. It will also prove valuable as a university textbook for introductory astronomy courses in science degrees, or in general astronomy courses for students in other disciplines.
ABOUT DAVID GALADÍ-ENRÍQUEZ (WRITER)
DavidGaladí-Enríquez (Córdoba, Spain, 1969) has been an active observer of the firmament since he was very young. He studied physics at the Universities of Granada and Barcelona, where he received his PhD in astrophysics in 1998. He has worked as a high school teacher, university professor in ...
ABOUT JORDI GUTIÉRREZ CABELLO (WRITER)
Jordi Gutiérrez Cabello graduated in Physics at the University of Barcelona and obtained his PhD in Astrophysics at the same university. He was a member of the Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya and is currently a teaching and research staff at the Escola d'Enginyeria de Telec...
CONTENTS
Prologue
Presentation
PART I. HISTORY
1. History of Astronomy
PART II. THE FIRMAMENT
2. The firmament with the naked eye
3. Celestial coordinates
4. Earth's motions
5. The names of the sky
PART III. INSTRUMENTATION AND OBSERVATIONAL TECHNIQUES
6. Telescopes
7. Practical use of the telescope
8. Introduction to observational techniques
9. The quality of the sky
10. Astronomy in other spectral regions
PART IV. THE SOLAR SYSTEM
11. The Solar System: general information
12. Mercury
13. Venus
14. Earth
15. The Moon
16. Mars
17. Jupiter
18. The Jovian system
19. Saturn
20. The Saturn system
21. Uranus
22 Neptune
23. Trans-Neptunian objects
24. Asteroids
25. Comets
26. Meteoroids, meteors and meteorites
PART V. THE STARS
27. Principles of stellar physics
28. Observation of the stars
29. Classification of stars
30. Star formation
31. Stellar evolution. Low mass stars
32. Stellar evolution. Massive stars
33. The Sun and the heliosphere
34. Multiple stars
35. Variable stars
36. Extrasolar planetary systems
PART VI. THE GALAXY
37. Structure of the Galaxy
38. Stellar populations and the interstellar medium
39. Stellar groupings
PART VII. THE EXTRAGALACTIC UNIVERSE AND COSMOLOGY
40. The extragalactic systems
41. Structure of the large-scale universe
42. The Expanding Universe
43. The future of the universe
44. Astrobiology
BOOK DATA
Height x width: 25.5x19.8cm.
No. of pages: 936 pp.
Publisher: AKAL
Language: Spanish
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9788446051459
Year of edition: 2022
From the Earth to the Universe. General Astronomy: Theoretical and Practical
