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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 November 2015
    31 October 2010
    ISBN:
    9780511659102
    9781108015226
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511659102
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    Dimensions:
    (297 x 210 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.42kg, 168 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Physics and Astronomy, Cosmology, Relativity and Gravitation, Astronomy: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy
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    Subjects:
    Physics and Astronomy, Cosmology, Relativity and Gravitation, Astronomy: General Interest
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy
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    A geologist and fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, Isaac Roberts (1829–1904) made significant contributions to the photography of star-clusters and nebulae. By championing reflecting rather than refracting telescopes, Roberts was able to perceive previously unnoticed star-clusters, and was the first to identify the spiral shape of the Great Andromeda Nebula. Roberts' use of a telescope for photographing stars, and a long exposure time, provided greater definition of stellar phenomena than previously used hand-drawings. Although Roberts' conclusions about the nature of the nebulae he photographed were not always correct, the book is significant for the possibilities it suggests for nebular photography. Published in London in 1893 and 1899, the two-volume Photographs of Stars represents the summation of his work with his assistant W. S. Franks at his observatory in Crowborough, Sussex. Volume 1 contains 51 collotype plates of stars, and descriptions of his instruments and methods.

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