Elementary Mathematical Astronomy(?)

[JRWASTRO]

Greetings Readers,

https://www.e-booksdirectory.com/details.php?ebook=3483

For those who are interested in the mathematical astronomy:

Elementary Mathematical Astronomy
by C. Barlow, G. Bryan

And

Practical Astronomy
by P. S. Michie, F. S. Harlow - John Wiley & Sons

Are excellent. The mathematics is the same as now!!

Contrast this with the "Ultra Modern" :

Gravitational Waves: Sources, Detectors and Searches
by Keith Riles - arXiv

and for the very brave:

Astronomical Image and Data Analysis
by J.-L. Starck, F. Murtagh - Springer

I have not looked at the last reference as it costs money. Horrible.

Good reading for our winter.

Jeremy.

 

 

[Demonperformer]

Thanks for the link. It will be interesting to see how it compares with Astronomical Algorithms, which I found very readable.

[JRWASTRO]

Yes, The book by Jean Meeus is excellent. I have coded a number of the algorithms, in that book, to run on my " HP Prime " calculator. The algorithms are being trialed for celestial navigation and are very very accurate. One would be most useful for users of Sun Dials. If anybody has one of these calculators and would like to try out this code they are very welcome to it. I can place it in this post. Here is a screen shot of the

Analemma /EoT Plot on the HP Prime Calculator:-

 

Jeremy.

[JamesF]

I foresee some rather more demanding than usual reading in my near future :)

Thank you both for the links.

James