Bibliography What’s below is only a partial list. I’ve read many of the books that are listed but certainly not all. It’s unfortunate that some of the better books are out of print and hard to find. Even if you can find them, the cost is sometimes prohibitive. Astron- omy books do not sell like the latest Harry Potter novel. With their limited runs, the price must be higher to cover the production costs. Most of the books are available on Amazon.com or BarnesNoble.com. You can also check the web sites for some of the listed publishers. Willmann-Bell: http://willbell.com. Springer-Verlag: http://www.springer.de/ Cambridge University Press: http://uk.cambridge.org/ Dover Publications: http://store.doverpublications.com/ Asteroids Asteroids: A History. Curtis Peoples. pp. 280. Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN: 1560983892. Asteroids. Gehrels, ed. University of Arizona Press. ISBN: 0816506957. Out of print. Also check http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/home.htm as well. Asteroids II. Binzel, ed. University of Arizona Press. ISBN: 0816511233. Also check http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/home.htm. Asteroids III. Bottke et al., ed. pp. 1025. University of Arizona Press. ISBN: 0816522812. Also check http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/home.htm. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, 5th ed. Lutz D. Schmadel. Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 3540002383. Introduction to Asteroids: The Next Frontier. Clifford Cunningham. Willmann- Bell. ISBN: 0943396166. This is one of the best intermediate level books on aster- oids. It is difficult to find a copy. If you see it, get it. Also check http://www.allbookstores.com/ T. Rex and the Crater of Doom. Walter Alvarez. pp. 208. Vintage Books. ISBN: 0375702105. From the title and cover, you’d think this is yet another “doomsday asteroid” book. In reality, it’s a well-written account on how the theory came to be that an asteroid destroyed the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. 181 182 Bibliography Variable Stars Cataclysmic Variable Stars. Brian Warner. pp. 592. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052154209X. Cataclysmic Variable Stars: How and Why They Vary. Coel Hellier. pp 210. Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 1852332115. Variable Stars, J.S. Glasby. pp. 333. Harvard University Press. ISBN: 0674932005. Out of print but used copies can be found. Variable Stars, Michel Petit. John Wiley & Sons. ASIN 0471909203. Eclipsing Binary Stars: Modeling and Analysis. Josef Kallrath and Eugene F. Milone. pp. 355. Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 0387986227. Binary Stars: A Pictorial Atlas. Dirk Terrell et al. pp. 383. Krieger Publishing Co. ISBN: 0894640410. An Introduction to Close Binary Stars. R.W. Hilditch. pp. 392. Cambridge Univer- sity Press. ISBN: 0521798000. Stellar Evolution. A.J. Meadows. Pergamon Press. 2nd ed. ASIN: 0080216692. A nice, easy read on the essentials of the topic without being too basic. No math. Out of print but used copies can usually be found. CCD Imaging CCD Astronomy: Construction and Use of an Astronomical CCD Camera. Chris- tian Buil. Willmann-Bell. ISBN: 0943396298. It may be a bit dated but Buil is one of the CCD gurus. The New CCD Astronomy: How to Capture the Stars with a CCD Camera in Your Own Backyard. Ron Wodaski. pp. 476. New Astronomy Press. ISBN: 0971123705. A Practical Guide to CCD Astronomy. Patrick Martinez. pp. 263. Cambridge Uni- versity Press. ISBN: 0521599504. Handbook of CCD Astronomy. Steve Howell. pp. 176. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0521648343. Bibliography 183 Image Processing The Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing. Berry, R. and Burnell, J. pp. 650. Willmann-Bell. ISBN: 0943396670. Practical Algorithms for Image Analysis: Descriptions, Examples, and Code. Seul et al. pp. 295. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0521660653. Photometry Astronomical Photometry: Text and Handbook for the Advanced Amateur and Professional Astronomer. Henden, A. and Kaitchuck, R. pp. 394. Willmann-Bell. ISBN: 0943396255. As far as I’m concerned, the Bible for amateur photometrists. An Introduction to Astronomical Photometry Using CCDs. W. Romanishin. Uni- versity of Oklahoma. Available on-line: http://observatory.ou.edu/book4512.html. Handbook of CCD Astronomy. Steve B. Howell. pp. 164. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 052164834-3. Solar System Photometry Handbook. Russell M. Genet, ed. 1983. Willmann-Bell. ISBN: 0-943396-03-4. An Introduction to Astronomical Photometry. Edwin Budding. pp. 272. Cam- bridge University Press. ISBN: 0521418674. High Speed Astronomical Photometry. Brian Warner. Cambridge University Press. ASIN: 0521351502. Out of print but used copies usually available. The Measurement of Starlight: Two Centuries of Astronomical Photometry. J.B. Hearnshaw. pp. 511. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 0521403936. You have to be a serious history buff to afford the price of more than $100 but it’s a good read. Telescope Control Software MPO Connections. Bdw Publishing. http://www.MinorPlanetObserver.com TheSky. Software Bisque. http://www.bisque.com Astronomer’s Control Panel (ACP). DC3 Dreams. http://acp3.dc3.com/ Starry Night Pro. Space Software. http://www.starrynight.com/ 184 Bibliography Camera Control Software MPO Connections. Bdw Publishing. http://www.MinorPlanetObserver.com CCDSoft. Software Bisque. http://www.bisque.com MaxIm DL. Diffraction Limited. http://www.cyanogen.com/ AstroArt. MSB Software. http://www.msb-astroart.com/ Photometry Software MPO Canopus. Bdw Publishing. http://www.MinorPlanetObserver.com AIP4Win. Willmann-Bell. http://www.willbell.com/ MaxIm DL. Diffraction Limited. http://www.cyanogen.com/ Mira. Axiom Research. http://www.axres.com/ AstroArt. MSB Software. http://www.msb-astroart.com/ IRAF. IRAF Programming Group (UNIX/LINUX/MAC). http://iraf.noao.edu/ iraf-homepage.html. Miscellaneous Star Testing Astronomical Telescopes: A Manual for Optical Evaluation and Ad- justment. Harold Richard Suiter. pp. 376. Willmann-Bell. ISBN: 0943396441. Binary Maker. Binary star modeling program. David Bradstreet/Contact Software. Dept. of Physical Sciences, Eastern College, St. Davids, PA 19087. http://www.binarymaker.com Wilson-Devinney Program. Robert Devinney. FORTRAN code available at ftp://ftp.astro.ufl.edu/pub/Wilson/lcdc2003. A Windows version (WDWint) is available from Robert Nelson, [email protected] Bibliography 185 Organization Web Sites I’ve listed only those sites that are in English. I apologize to those who are omitted because of my inability to read or speak other languages. Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL). http://www.MinorPlanetObserver.com Society for Astronomical Sciences. http://www.socastrosci.org (formerly IAPPP- West) Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO). http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/alpo/ American Association of Variable Star Observers. http://www.aavso.org. British Astronomical Association Variable Star Section (BAAVSS). http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~baa/ Center for Backyard Astrophysics. http://cba.phys.columbia.edu/ Association Francais des Observateurs d’Etoiles Variables (AFOEV). http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/afoev/ Group of Eclipsing Binary Observers of the Swiss Astronomical Society (BBSAG). http://www.astroinfo.ch/bbsag/bbsag_e.html Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand. http://www.rasnz.org.nz/index.htm Astronomical Society of South Australia – Variable Star Group. http://www.assa.org.au/sig/variables/ Groupe Europeen d’Observation Stellaire (GEOS). http://www.upv.es/geos/ Minor Planet Mailing List. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mpml/ Glossary This glossary is by no means exhaustive. My intent was to include words used in this book that may need a little additional explanation or those words that I fre- quently encountered when starting out in lightcurve work. Books on specific top- ics such as photometry and variable stars will have more extensive glossaries. Absolute Magnitude For a star, the magnitude it would appear if it were 10 parsecs (about 32 light- years) from Earth. For an asteroid, the magnitude the asteroid would appear if it were a distance of 1 astronomical unit (AU) from the Earth and Sun, and at 0° phase angle, which would include the brightening due to the opposition effect. ADU Analog-to-digital unit. In a CCD camera, this is the unit of value assigned to each pixel’s sum of electrons. A 16-bit ADU system has a range of values of 0–65,535. An 8-bit camera has a range of 0–255. A wider range of values allows a more pre- cise determination of the actual number of electrons stored in a given pixel. The ADU value of a given pixel can be converted back to the actual number of elec- trons (or approximately so) by multiplying the ADU value of the pixel by the gain of the camera. Air mass The length of the path light takes through the Earth’s atmosphere. The value is 1.0 when an object is directly overhead. It approximately follows the formula of sec(z), where z is the angular distance of the object from the zenith, or the zenith distance. Albedo The amount of light an object reflects. Values range from 0% to 100% and are usually listed in the range of 0 to 1.0. Algol-type Binary A semi-detached binary system where the secondary star is a lower-mass subgiant that fills its Roche lobe and the primary is a more massive main-sequence star. Alias In lightcurve analysis, a period that appears to be the true period but is not. An alias period is often found when the data set cannot uniquely determine how many cycles of the lightcurve have occurred over the total time span of the data. In this case, the alias and true periods usually have a common integral or half-integral multiple that coincides with the time between observing sessions. 187 188 Glossary All-Sky (Absolute) Photometry The process whereby the values required to convert instrumental magnitudes to a standard system are obtained by imaging stars from several locations about the sky. This method requires that sky conditions be very stable and clear. Altitude The angular distance of an object above the horizon with 0° on the horizon 90° directly overhead If the altitude is negative, the object is below the horizon.