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| View Larger Image | Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars
by Robert W. Argyle
by Bob Argyle
| | List Price: | $44.95 | | Price: | $29.67 | | You Save: | $15.28 (34%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 793633 | | Studio: | Springer | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 326 | | Publication Date: | January 09, 2004 | | Publisher: | Springer |
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Double stars are the rule, rather than the exception: our solar system, having a single sun, is in the minority. Orbiting satellites, ground-based observatories and interferometers have all helped discover many hundreds of new pairs - but this has left enormous numbers of wide, faint pairs under-observed or not observed at all. This is where amateur astronomers can help. Bob Argyle, a professional astronomer at Cambridge University, shows where enthusiastic amateur observers can best direct their efforts. The book caters for the use of every level of equipment, from simple commercial telescopes to micrometers and CCD cameras. Amateur astronomers who have gone beyond "sight-seeing” and want to make a genuine scientific contribution will find this a fascinating and rewarding field - and this book provides all the background and practical information that’s needed. |
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for the amateur astronomer 
Argyle's book is useful for the amateur astronomer. Showing how even in these days of multimillion dollar observatories, you can still make a meaningful contribution to astronomy with quite affordable and modest equipment.
The text goes through elementary optics, that can be found in such standard texts as Hecht and Zajac. But it quickly specialises in details specific to observing binaries in the visual spectrum. With simple measurement techniques whose geometry you can readily grasp and apply.
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All a beginner need to know about double stars 
I have been a amateur asteroid hunter for a few years but lately my interest switch to double stars. I found that information found on the web is too "bits and pieces". This book give me (an beginner) all the information I need. It is the best $30 I have spent.
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