By Brian Warner (auth.), J. B. Hearnshaw, P. L. Cottrell (eds.)
This quantity is the lawsuits of IAU Symposium No. 118 on "Instrumentation. and learn Programmes for Small Telescopes", the place small telescopes have been outlined as these ground-based tools with apertures lower than 1.5m. The clinical aim of the symposium was once to stress examine programmes that have been extra fitted to smaller tele scopes, on which common ordinary observations will be made. a wide selection of themes on instrumentation, photometry, spectroscopy and polarimetry of items within the sun method to extragalactic platforms have been mentioned. all the 4 medical days of the symposium comprised a few invited assessment papers, contributed oral papers and dialogue periods committed basically to the massive quantity (~4) of poster papers. An introductory paper at the study power of small telescopes units the scene for the symposium. The lawsuits have then been divided into 3 sections. part I: Telescopes and instrumentation; part II: Photometric examine programmes; part III: Spectroscopic learn programmes. the range of subject matters inside of every one of those sections indicated the level to which small telescopes have (and can) give a contribution enormously to astronomical study. Dr J.A. Graham's precis of the symposium, which illustrates the possibilities to be had with small telescopes, concludes those court cases. As in all symposia, the significance of the dialogue following every one paper used to be realised. The dialogue used to be recorded on tape (and anyplace attainable on questions and solution sheets), transcribed after which edited.
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