Название: Textbook on Spherical Astronomy
Автор: W. M. Smart
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 1977
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 431
Размер: 14,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

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.