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Astronomy is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of one- or two-semester introductory astronomy courses. The book begins with relevant scientific fundamentals and progresses through an exploration of the solar system, stars, galaxies, and cosmology.

The Astronomy textbook builds student understanding through the use of relevant analogies, clear and non-technical explanations, and rich illustrations. Mathematics is included in a flexible manner to meet the needs of individual instructors.

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Resensi Buku : Menjelajah Tata Surya

Format: Paperback, 302 halaman
Penerbit: Kanisius
Pengarang: A. Gunawan Admiranto
Harga : Rp.60.000,00
isbn: 9789792119
Tanggal Publish: 31 Mar 2009

Alam semesta telah sejak lama memukau manusia dengan keindahannya dan juga misteri di dalamnya. Dan perjalanan sejarah manusia membuktikan kalau keingintahuan untuk menyingkap misteri di alam semesta telah membawa manusia dalam perjalanan panjang penelitian dan penjelajahan untuk mengungkap satu demi satu misteri yang menyelimuti alam maha luas.

Dari penglihatan akan gerak benda langit dari Bumi sampai penjelajahan telah dilakukan oleh manusia demi menyingkap misteri itu. Buku karangan Gunawan Admiranto, :Menjelajah Tata Surya”, mencoba membawa kita mengenal ruang lingkup Tata Surya dimulai dari sejarah perkembangan konsep Tata Surya sampai dengan anggota keluarga yang ada di tepian luar Tata Surya.

Perjalanan di tata Surya diawali dari Matahari kemudian ke setiap planet dan diakhiri dengan keberadaan obyek-obyek di tepi luar Tata Surya yang dikenal sebagai obyek Kuiper. Keindahan Tata Surya dipaparkan dengan bahasa yang sederhana untuk dipahami. Satu per satu planet dikupas sampai ke proses yang terjadi di dalamnya. Dan tak lupa definisi planet yang terbaru pun disertakan dengan mengacu pada peristiwa mengapa Pluto bukan planet lagi. Kehadiran klasifikasi baru planet katai juga dijelaskan dengan baik.Buku ini sangat baik untuk para pelajar yang ingin mengenal lebih dekat Tata Surya dan semua yang ada di dalamnya.

Namun bagaimanapun gamblangnya Tata Surya dijelaskan lewat penjelajahan ini, penjelajahan sesungguhnya dari para ilmuwa belumlah berakhir. Masih ada segudang misteri yang masih menanti untuk disingkapkan.

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Buku ini sangat disarankan bagi pecinta astronomi, khususnya para pemula. Saya pernah menggunakan buku ini (edisi lama) dan banyak sekali hal yang dapat dipelajari. Selamat belajar.

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Description :
# Paperback: 800 pages
# Publisher: W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd; 8th Revised edition (30 Jul 2007)
# Language English
# ISBN-10: 0716795647
# ISBN-13: 978-0716795643
# Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 23.4 x 2.8 cm

Buku ini adalah salah satu buku teks astronomi yang direkomendasikan untuk dibaca. Materi yang disampaikan tidak terlalu sulit dipahami oleh para pemula. Cakupan materi yang dibahas juga cukup luas dan dilengkapi dengan informasi - informasi terbaru. Sebagai pelengkap, disertakan juga software Starry Night Backyard dan Deep Space Explorer, yang sudah diakui sebagai salah satu software simulasi langit terbaik. Hanya saja paket buku teks ini tergolong sangat mahal, yaitu sekitar $115.95 untuk buku baru.

The Sky at Einstein’s Feet

The insights of relativity have illuminated a century of astronomical discovery, often going beyond the phenomena that Einstein lived to see. This book shows, in nonmathematical ways, how deeply these ways of viewing the Universe have informed our interpretations of it, and how many of the amazing discoveries of these decades have made sense only as part of Einstein’s universe.

The author brings together the ways in which we see the bizarre effects of relativity played out on a cosmic scale. None of this is particularly new to practicing astronomers, but much has yet to be seen outside technical journals. The presentation avoids mathematics (except for the most famous equation in all of physics!), and is designed to be accessible to the interested public. Gravitational lenses, the visible effects of light-travel delays, the search for black holes, the ways relativity in atomic nuclei makes stars shine, are all treated. In many cases, some of the principals are still alive and provided new commentary on the discoveries. Numerous illustrations are newly produced from data in the archives of such observatories as Hubble and Chandra.

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Handbook of CCD Astronomy, 2nd Edition

Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) are the state-of-the-art detector in many fields of observational science. Updated to include all of the latest developments in CCDs, this second edition of the Handbook of CCD Astronomy is a concise and accessible reference on all practical aspects of using CCDs. Starting with their electronic workings, it discusses their basic characteristics and then gives methods and examples of how to determine these values. While the book focuses on the use of CCDs in professional observational astronomy, advanced amateur astronomers, and researchers in physics, chemistry, medical imaging, and remote sensing will also find it very valuable. Tables of useful and hard-to-find data, key practical equations, and new exercises round off the book and ensure that it provides an ideal introduction to the practical use of CCDs for graduate students, and a handy reference for more experienced users.
Steve is the master of the art of CCD photometry. This is an essential book for professional astronomers and amateurs alike.

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Celestial Mechanics: The Waltz of the Planets

Celestial Mechanics: The Waltz of the Planets (Springer Praxis Books / Popular Astronomy)
Springer | ISBN 038730777X | 2007-01 | PDF | 262 pages | 11.8 MB

The common perception of Celestial Mechanics is that of a discipline which needs advanced mathematics and astronomy to be understood. Yet modern Celestial Mechanics has a rather different taste and a truly interdisciplinary nature. The number of celestial objects known to mankind has dramatically increased, the long-awaited presence of extrasolar planets has been eventually detected around other stars, spaceflight dynamics has brought new applications encompassing rocked dynamics, the place-in-orbit of artificial satellites and interplanetary mission design. Solar System exploration has grown as a long term strategy for the construction of a permanent base on the Moon and a manned mission to Mars.

The aim of the book is to show to the people at large, as well as to a more skilled audience, the many fascinating aspects of modern celestial mechanics. After giving to the reader the necessary technical tools needed for a basic understanding of the underlying physical phenomena (using only elementary mathematics), facts and figures are provided on historical events, modern discoveries and future applications. Contents are divided into major topics where the three "souls" of modern celestial mechanics (dynamical systems, Solar System & stellar systems, spaceflight dynamics) play a major role. As an example, spin-orbit resonances can be explained using fractional algebra and subsequently described in action as "cosmic spinning tops". Easily observable effects such as the existence of a "dark side of the Moon" (and of many other satellites) can be compared to the "complete synchronous rotation" achieved by a geostationary telecommunication satellite in order to be always in view of the receiving parabolas on the ground. On longer time scales, the consequences of spin-orbit interaction may dramatically change the evolution of a planet when chaos enters the scene and must be taken into account in searching habitable planets around other stars.
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Astronomy Demystified

McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (August 1, 2002) | ISBN: 0071384278 | 575 pages | PDF | 2,3 Mb

* Allows the reader to quickly and easily grasp the math, fundamentals, and general concepts involved in astronomy
* Covers techniques for using telescopes, the challenges of amateur astrophotography, and the special problems of observing the sky at "invisible wavelengths"
* Unlike most books on the topic, it presents general concepts first and details follow
* Contains quizzes, tests, and final exams

Quick and easy math, fundamentals, and general concepts involved in astronomy.

In this book, we'll go on a few "mind journeys." For example, we'll take a tour of the entire Solar System, riding hybrid space, aircraft into the atmospheres and, in some cases, to the surfaces of celestial bodies other than Earth. Some of the details of this trip constitute fiction, but the space vehicles and navigational mechanics are based on realistic technology and astronomical facts.

Komentar:
Buku ini bagus dibaca bagi para pemula yang baru ingin mempelajari astronomi, khususnya yang sekedar ingin mempelajari konsep astronomi tanpa perhitungan matematis yang rumit. Tidak diperlukan pengetahuan dasar untuk bisa mengikuti isi dari buku ini karena memang buku ini didesain bagi para pemula. Cakupan materi yang dibahas cukup bervariasi tapi tidak terlalu dalam dan berat.
Buku ini juga menyediakan beberapa soal-soal sederhana di akhir tiap bab untuk menguji sejauh mana pemahaman Anda tentang bab yang bersangkutan. Anda bisa mengecek jawaban Anda dengan kunci yang disediakan di bagian akhir buku.
Selamat membaca dan selamat belajar.

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Bad Astronomy : Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"

Review:
Astronomer Phil Plait has found a great niche for himself - debunking bad science, specifically Bad Astronomy. He's been at it on the web for years, and it came as no surprise to me when I found out there was a book deal in the works.

Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax" is exactly what it sounds like. For 260ish pages Phil takes a look at many of the common misconceptions that have plagued astronomy for years.

The first half of the book is interesting reading, but it's more of a science book. Phil looks at many of the commonly misunderstood concepts in astronomy and sets the record straight. I'd like to think I know a little about astronomy, so I was pretty surprised to learn I was misinformed about many aspects of the basics: tides, meteors, gravity.

It's in the second half of the book where Plait really hits his stride as he examines some of the "bad astronomy" hatched more recently: Apollo moon landing hoaxes, UFOs etc. Because the culprits are still spinning out the bad science, Phil firmly debunks their "theories". I especially enjoyed the Top Ten Examples of Bad Astronomy in Hollywood.

If I had a complaint, it's that Phil spends a little too much time explaining how to balance an egg in any season (a whole chapter!, but I guess he was trying to make a point). Seriously, though, it's a great book, not Bad Astronomy at all.
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An Introduction to Modern Cosmology

Book review :
This new textbook provides a readable and accessible introduction to the subject for those students taking a first course in cosmology. An Introduction to Modern Cosmology introduces models of the expanding universe and explores all the successes of the hot big bang, including the cosmic microwave background and nucleosynthesis. A brief discussion of the inflationary cosmology is also included. No prior knowledge of astronomy is assumed and the book's general approach tends to avoid relativity, deriving the crucial results using newtonian theory. This allows a discussion of all the evidence in favour of the hot big bang in a treatment which is based in physics rather than mathematics.

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Discovering the Solar System

Book Description:

Discovering the Solar System, Second Edition covers the Sun, the planets, their satellites and the host of smaller bodies that orbit the Sun. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the subject for science students, and examines the discovery, investigation and modelling of these bodies. Following a thematic approach, chapters cover interiors, surfaces and the atmospheres of major bodies, including the Earth. The book starts with an overview of the Solar System and its origin, and then takes a look at small bodies, such as asteroids, comets and meteorites.

Carefully balancing breadth of coverage with depth, Discovering the Solar System, Second Edition:
Offers a comprehensive introduction, assuming little prior knowledge
Includes full coverage of each planet, as well as the moon, Europa and Titan. The Second Edition includes new material on exoplanetary systems, and a general update throughout.
Presents latest results from the Mars Rover and Cassini-Huygens missions
Includes a colour plate section
Contains ‘stop and think’ questions embedded in the text to aid understanding, along with questions at the end of major sections. Answers are provided at the end of the book.
Provides summaries at the end of each chapter, and a glossary at the end of the book

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Discovering the Solar System by Barrie W. Jones (Author)

The Amateur Astronomer (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy)

Book Description:

This 2000 Edition of Sir Patrick Moore’s classic book has been completely revised in the light of changes in technology. Not only do these changes include commercially available astronomical telescopes and software, but also what we know and understand about the universe. There are many new photographs and illustrations. Writing in the easy-going style that made him famous as a writer and broadcaster, Sir Patrick introduced astronomy and amateur observing together, so that his reader gets an idea of what he is observing at the same time as how to observe. Almost half the book is Appendices. These are hugely comprehensive and provide hints and tips, as well as data (year 2000 onwards) for pretty well every aspect of amateur astronomy. This is probably the only book in which all this information is collected in one place.

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Practical Astronomy with your Calculator, 3ed

Textbook ini akan membahas mengenai perhitungan-perhitungan untuk memprediksi fenomena astronomi tertentu (seperti gerhana, dll) dan juga posisi dari beberapa benda-benda langit. Pembahasannya yang "to-the-point" membuat buku ini relatif bisa diikuti. Hanya saja kekurangannya adalah tidak dicantumkannya tingkat keakuratan masing-masing metode. Tetapi bagi pemula, hal tersebut tidak terlalu bermasalah dan buku ini tetap memberikan manfaat yang besar dalam mempelajari astronomi. Selamat belajar.

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Modul Persiapan Olimpiade Astronomi

Modul ini dipersiapkan untuk para siswa yang ingin mempersiapkan diri mengikuti ajang Olimpiade Sains Nasional Astronomi yang diadakan rutin tiap tahunnya.

Dikarenakan keterbatasan waktu dalam penyusunan modul ini, masih banyak bagian yang salah. Oleh sebab itu, silakan Anda menggunakannya secara bijak dan kritis. Revisi dari modul ini sedang disusun meskipun terhambat pula dengan keterbatasan waktu luang penulis.

Modul Persiapan Olimpiade Astronomi (unrevised edition)

Usulan Textbook : Astronomy: Principles and Practice, Fourth Edition

Review :
This is the fourth edition a key undergraduate astronomy books. The book 'Roy & Clarke' is well known to astronomers, and this book, in conjunction with their Astronomy: Structure of The Universe (2004) will serve students from first-year undergraduates to Masters level. Still used as a course text, this edition was revised and extended to account for developments and changes in teaching over the last decade. It introduces the concepts and historical development of astronomy, presents a course on positional measurement and celestial mechanics, and describes the techniques and instrumentation of modern astronomical observation and measurement.

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Introduction of Astronomy

Bagi Anda yang baru pertama kali belajar astronomi, silakan coba kunjungi situs berikut ini. Situs ini berisi lecture notes yang disiapkan bagi mahasiswa di University of California, Berkeley yang mengambil mata kuliah Astronomy 10 : Introduction to General Astronomy. Situs kuliah tersebut : klik disini

Dalam kuliah ini, buku acuan yang digunakan adalah : The Cosmic Perspective, Second Edition, by Jeffrey Bennett, Megan Donahue, Nicholas Schneider, and Mark Voit (Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-8053-8044-2). Buku ini sangat bagus dibaca sebagai tahap pengenalan Astronomi. Buku ini ada dalam bentuk online-ebook di situs : klik disini

Selamat belajar.

Usulan textbook : Fundamental Astronomy 5th edition (Springer)

Fundamental Astronomy adalah salah textbook yang sangat bagus dibaca oleh para astronom pemula yang baru mempelajari astronomi. Bahasannya cukup luas dan mudah dipahami.
Semoga bermanfaat.






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Fundamental Astronomy
Springer | ISBN 3540341439 | 2007-07 | PDF | 522 pages

Fundamental Astronomy gives a well-balanced and comprehensive introduction to the topics of classical and modern astronomy. While emphasizing both the astronomical concepts and the underlying physical principles, the text provides a sound basis for more profound studies in the astronomical sciences. The fifth edition of this successful undergraduate textbook has been extensively modernized and extended in the parts dealing with the Milky Way, extragalactic astronomy and cosmology as well as with extrasolar planets and the solar system (as a consequence of recent results from satellite missions and the new definition by the International Astronomical Union of planets, dwarf planets and small solar-system bodies). Furthermore a new chapter on astrobiology has been added. Long considered a standard text for physical science majors, Fundamental Astronomy is also an excellent reference and entrée for dedicated amateur astronomers.

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Astronomi Bola

Bagi yang ingin mempelajari tentang astronomi bola, ada usulan textbook yang disarankan untuk dibaca, yaitu Textbook on Spherical Astronomy oleh William Marshall Smart.

Memang buku ini termasuk buku 'tua' tetapi masih menjadi buku pegangan utama dalam mempelajari astronomi bola.

Silakan tinjau review buku ini :
This well-established textbook gives a general but comprehensive introduction to positional astronomy. Originally based on the author’s lecture courses at Cambridge University, it is intended primarily for undergraduates, but, due to its comprehensive nature, it is a very useful reference text for research workers in many branches of astronomy and space physics. The author considers the night sky as the celestial sphere and powerfully exploits the methods of spherical geometry. Most problems in which the precise determination of a heavenly body’s position in the sky is important are considered in theoretical detail, and the necessary formulae are derived to a precision that is sufficient for all but the most specialist purposes. The present revision has ensured that the terminology and treatment correspond precisely to current astronomical practice. A guiding principle has been to re-establish compatibility with the Astronomical Ephemeris and, to a lesser extent, with the fuller explanations of the Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Ephemeris and the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. Fairly frequent comments added to the text indicate the sometimes modified relevance of the subject matter to modern astronomy. A number of additional exercises help to illustrate the new material.

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Textbook on Spherical Astronomy