EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This work consists in progressive, corrected exercises ranging from a secondary education level to a higher level. Some of the exercises require the use of a calculator, preferably one that can be programmed.

The book tackles a great variety of astronomical methods. The authors have introduced historical examples which allow us to appreciate the advances in astronomy and astrophysics during this second millenium up to our present twentieth century. The volume is aimed at readers, professors, students and club directors of cultural activities. It will allow them to better interpret the measurements they have done.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Table des Matières.

-Avant-Propos.

-Le Reperage des Astres par l'Observateur Terrestre.

-A. Les Coordonnées d'un Astre.
-B. La Réfraction Astronomique.
-C. Les Mouvements Apparents.
-D. Les Mouvements Propes des Astres.
-E. Les Positions Stellaires.

-Le Soleil et le Systeme Solaire.

-A. Distances et Mouvements.
-B. Dimensions et Formes.
-C. Masses.
-D. Luminosité - Température - Composition Chimique.
-E. Age.

-Les Etoiles.

-A. Rayonnement - Luminosité - Température.
-B. Dimensions - Rotation - Champs Magnétiques.
-C. Masses.
-D. Distances.
-E. Etoiles et Galaxie.
-F. Ages.

-Les Galaxies.

-A. Formes et Spectres.
-B. Distances.
-C. Masses.
-D. Amas de Galaxies - Quasars - Cosmologie.

-Solutions.

-Index.

OUR REVIEW

Astronomie, Méthodes et Calculus, Exercices Corrigés, already in its third edition, contains a great number of exercises having different degrees of difficulty, with their answers and results, especially aimed at the students of physics and astronomy. The book is divided into four sections, which allows the reader to progressively study the problems inherent to the observation of the sky. Thus, the different exercises deal with the observations of the sky bodies from Earth (coordinates, refraction, apparent motions, stellar locations), the Solar System (distances and motions, dimensions and shapes, masses, brightness, temperature and composition, age), stars (brilliance, brightness and temperature, dimensions, rotation and magnetic fields, masses, distances and ages), and lastly galaxies (shapes and spectra, distances, masses, groupings, quasars and cosmology.) The last part of the book contains the solution to the problems proposed in the book.

Agnès Acker is a professor at the University of Strasbourg 1, as well as a specialist in astrophysics at the Strasbourg Observatory. Carlos Jascher is an honorary professor at this same university and has been a director of the Astronomical Data Center of Strasbourg. Alfred Rihn has been in charge of the graphic designs of the book.