New horizons in astronomy
By: edited by Fred L. Whipple
Series: Smithsonian contributions to astrophysics -- v. 1, no. 1
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 1956
Place of publication: Washington, D. C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Astronomy
Notes: Contains bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Optics / I.S. Bowen; title: Solar instrumentation / J.W. Evans and R.B. Dunn; title: Astronomical seeing and scintillation / Geoffrey Keller; title: Spectroscopy / Charlotte E. Moore; title: Radial velocities / R.M. Petrie; title: Astrometry / K. Aa. Strand; title: Photoelectric astronomy / A.E. Whitford; title: Interferometers in radio astronomy / B.F. Burke and M.A. Tuve; title: Rocketry / R. Tousey; title: Computing machines in astronomy / Paul Herget; title: Turbulence / S. Chandrasekhar; title: Astroballistics / Richard N. Thomas; title: Electrodynamics of fluids and plasmas / Max Krook; title: Hydromagnetic and plasma problems / Eugene N. Parker; title: Earth's magnetism / Walter M. Elsasser; title: Time / William Markowitz; title: Geographical positions / John A. O'Keefe; title: Celestial mechanics / G.M. Clemence; title: Meteorites / John S. Rinehart; title: Meteors / Fred L. Whipple; title: Minor planets / Paul Herget; title: Planets, satellites, and comets / Gerard P. Kuiper; title: Airglow and aurora / A.B. Meinel; title: Solar-terrestrial relationships : weather and communications / Walter Orr Roberts; title: Solar physics / Leo Goldberg and Donald H. Menzel; title: Spectral classification / W.W. Morgan; title: Stellar atmospheres / Marshal H. Wrubel; title: Aerodynamic problems in stellar atmospheres / Richard N. Thomas; title: Emission nebulae / Lawrence H. Aller; title: Double and multiple stars / Otto Struve; title: Stellar dynamics / U. Van Wijk; title: Variable stars / C. Payne-Gaposchkin; title: Interstellar matter / Lyman Spitzer, Jr.; title: 21-centimeter research / Bart J. Bok; title: Some observational problems in galactic structure / Harold Weaver; title: Galactic clusters and associations / A. Blaauw; title: Global clusters observed through a crystal ball / W.A. Baum; title: Stellar structure and evolution / M. Schwarzschild; title: Radio sources / John D. Kraus.