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Contents of Surveying the Skies eBook
- Introduction
- The Five Eras of Astronomy
- Defining a Survey
- The Naked Eye Era
- The Babylonians and the Mul Apin Tablets
- The Greeks: Aristotle, Hipparchus, and Ptolemy
- Islamic Astronomy
- Chinese Astronomy
- Tycho Brahe
- The Telescope Era
- Surveying the Solar System
- Halley, Flamsteed and Navigation
- Messier, Herschel, and Nebulae
- Variable Stars and Photometry
- Moving Stars
- The BD Catalog
- The Photography Era
- Carte du Ciel
- Harvard Plate Collection
- Schmidt Camera Surveys
- Harvard Spectroscopic Survey
- Radio Surveys
- Jansky and Reber
- Post World War II Radio Astronomy
- The Big Bang Controversy
- Recent Radio Surveys
- The Pulsar Discovery Survey
- The -cm Spectral Line
- Molecules in the Milky Way
- Searching for ET
- Infrared Surveys
- The Caltech TMSS Survey
- MASS and DENIS
- The AFGL survey
- IRAS
- AKARI and WISE
- UKIDSS and VISTA
- SCUBA-
- The Cosmic Microwave Background
- Discovery of the CMB
- COBE
- Mapping the Fluctuations in the CMB
- The Planck Spacecraft
- Ultraviolet Surveys
- TD- A
- GALEX
- Extreme Ultraviolet Surveys
- X-ray Surveys
- Early Discoveries
- UHURU and HEAO-A
- Neutron Stars and Black Holes
- ROSAT
- Gamma Ray Surveys
- Early Surveys
- COS-B
- Compton and Fermi Satellites
- Gamma Ray Bursts
- Very High Energy Gamma Rays
- Space Astrometry
- Hipparcos
- Gaia
- The CCD Era
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- Pan-STARRS
- Asteroid Searches
- LSST
- Microsurveys
- Hubble Deep Fields
- The COSMOS Survey
- The MACHO Survey
- The Kepler Exoplanet Survey
- Accessing Astronomy Surveys
- Appendices
- A Further Reading
- A Units
- A Wavelength and Energy
- A Diffraction Limit
- A Precession
- A Stellar Magnitudes
- A Coordinate Systems
- A Interstellar Extinction and Reddening
- A Radiation, Temperature, and Wavelength
- A Redshift-Age Relationship
- A Determining the Properties of an Exoplanet
