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This volume is the proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 118 on "Instrumentation. and Research Programmes for Small Telescopes", where small telescopes were defined as those ground-based instruments with apertures less than 1.5m. The scientific goal of the symposium was to emphasise research programmes which were more suited to smaller tele scopes, on which frequent regular observations can be made. A wide variety of topics on instrumentation, photometry, spectroscopy and polarimetry of objects in the solar system to extragalactic systems were discussed. Each of the four scientific days of the symposium comprised a number of invited review papers, contributed oral papers and discussion sessions devoted purely to the large number (~4) of poster papers. An introductory paper on the research potential of small telescopes sets the scene for the symposium. The proceedings have then been divided into three sections. Section I: Telescopes and instrumentation; Section II: Photometric research programmes; Section III: Spectroscopic research programmes. The diversity of topics within each of these sections indicated the extent to which small telescopes have (and can) contribute greatly to astronomical research. Dr J.A. Graham's summary of the symposium, which illustrates the opportunities available with small telescopes, concludes these proceedings. As in all symposia, the importance of the discussion following each paper was realised. The discussion was recorded on tape (and wherever possible on questions and answer sheets), transcribed and then edited.
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Table of contents (97 papers)
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Photometric Research Programmes
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Invited and Oral contributed papers
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Poster Papers
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Reviews
`I recommend this book to anyone interested in contributing through their observational efforts, something of real merit to the science of astronomy.'
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Book title: Instrumentation and Research Programmes for Small Telescopes
Book subtitle: Proceedings of the 118th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Christchurch, New Zealand, 2–6 December 1985
Editors: J. B. Hearnshaw, P. L. Cottrell
Series title: International Astronomical Union Symposia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9433-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright information: International Astronomical Union 1986
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2325-3Published: 31 October 1986
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-9433-7Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1743-9213
Series E-ISSN: 2352-2186
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: XXII, 482