Practical Astronomy with your Calculator or Spreadsheet

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Practical Astronomy with your Calculator or Spreadsheet

Fourth Edition

Now in its fourth edition, this highly regarded book is ideal for those who wish to solve a variety of practical and recreational problems in astronomy using a scientific calculator or spreadsheet.

Updated and extended, this new edition shows you how to use spreadsheets to predict, with greater accuracy, solar and lunar eclipses, the positions of the planets, and the times of sunrise and sunset. With clear, easy-to-follow instructions, shown alongside worked examples, this handbook is essential for anyone wanting to make astronomical calculations for themselves. It can be enjoyed by anyone interested in astronomy, and will be a useful tool for software writers and students studying introductory astronomy. ? Gives easy-to-understand, simplified methods for

use with a pocket calculator. ? Covers orbits, transformations and general celes-

tial phenomena, for use anywhere, worldwide. ? High-precision spreadsheet methods for greater

accuracy are available at practicalastronomy.

Peter Duffett-Smith is a physicist by training and a radio astronomer by trade. He is a Reader in Experimental Radio Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge and of the Royal Astronomical Society. Jonathan Zwart is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory in New York, and a co-founder and former editor of Cambridge's science magazine, BlueSci.

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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-14654-8 - Practical Astronomy with your Calculator or Spreadsheet: Fourth Edition Peter Duffett-Smith and Jonathan Zwart Frontmatter More information

Practical Astronomy with your Calculator or Spreadsheet

Fourth Edition

Peter Duffett-Smith

Downing College, Cambridge

Jonathan Zwart

Columbia University in the City of New York

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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Duffett-Smith, Peter. Practical astronomy with your calculator or spreadsheet / Peter Duffett-Smith, Jonathan Zwart. ? 4th ed.

p. cm. Rev. ed. of: Practical astronomy with your calculator / Peter Duffett-Smith. 3rd ed. 1988. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-521-14654-8 (pbk.) 1. Astronomy ? Problems, exercises, etc. 2. Calculators ? Problems, exercises, etc. 3. Electronic spreadsheets in education. I. Zwart, Jonathan. II. Duffett-Smith, Peter. Practical astronomy with your calculator. III. Title. QB62.5.D83 2011 520.76 ? dc22 2010041671

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