Lewis Swift

Lewis Swift

Celebrated Comet Hunter and the People's Astronomer

Kronk, Gary W.

Springer International Publishing AG

08/2018

428

Mole

Inglês

9783319876191

15 a 20 dias

676

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Chapter 1: Family and Swift's Early Years.- Chapter 2: Swift Steps into Astronomy.- Chapter 3: Duffy's Cider Mill.- Chapter 4: The Solar Eclipse of July 29, 1878. Chapter 5: Warner Observatory: A Dream Becomes Reality.- Chapter 6: Celebrity and Its Consequences.- Chapter 7: Edward Emerson Barnard.- Chapter 8: Swift's Heyday of Discovery.- Chapter 9: Growing Dissatisfaction at Warner Observatory.- Chapter 10: A Mountain Resort and Lowe Observatory.- Chapter 11: A Few of Swift's Favorite Things.- Chapter 12: The Final Years.- Chapter 13: Swift's Legacy.- Chapter 14: Annotations for Swift's Catalogs.- Swift's Deep Sky Catalogs.- List of Abbreviations Used in the NGC and IC Descriptions.- Index.

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Astronomer Lewis Swift;Lewis Swift Biography;Comets and Galaxies Lewis Swift studied;Lewis Swift at Warner Observatory;Lewis Swift at Lowe Observatory;Comets Discovered by Lewis Swift;Swift's Uncatalogued Nebulae;Hulbert Harrington Warner;Thaddeus Sobieski Constantin Lowe;Swift-Tuttle comet