Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac, third edition by Sean E Urban

Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac, third edition by Sean E Urban

The Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac offers explanatory material, supplemental information, and detailed descriptions of the computational models and algorithms used to produce The Astronomical Almanac, which is an annual publication prepared jointly by the US Naval Observatory and Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office in the UK. Like The Astronomical Almanac, The Explanatory Supplement provides detailed coverage of modern positional astronomy. Chapters are devoted to the celestial and terrestrial reference frames, orbital ephemerides, precession, nutation, Earth rotation, and coordinate transformations. These topics have undergone substantial revisions since the last edition was published in 1992. Astronomical positions are intertwined with timescales and relativity in The Astronomical Almanac, so related chapters are provided in The Explanatory Supplement. The Astronomical Almanac also includes information on lunar and solar eclipses, physical ephemerides of solar system bodies, and calendars, so The Explanatory Supplement expounds upon each of these topics as well. The book is written at a technical, but non-expert level. As such, it provides an important reference for a full range of users including astronomers, engineers, navigators, surveyors, space scientists, and educators.

'Careful measurements have always been the key to mastery of planetary and stellar dynamics and the cosmic distance scaleThe material detailed in this book is the very bedrock underlying much else that we know about our own solar system and beyond.' - Roger W. Sinnott, Senior Contributing Editor, Sky & Telescope

Seidelmann, P. Kenneth: - P. Kenneth Seidelmann is a research professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia and is a former Director of Astrometry at the US Naval Observatory. He has led and been a member of a Division, various Commissions, and Working Groups of the International Astronomical Union, has co-authored two other books: Fundamentals of Astrometry (Cambridge, 2004) and Celestial Mechanics and Astrodynamics (2016), and is co-editor of the Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac (2012).

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ISBN 13	9781891389856
ISBN 10	1891389858
Title	Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac, third edition
Author	Sean E Urban
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University Science Books,U.S.
Year published	2012-11-15
Number of pages	734
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