Books about Astronomy and Astrophysics

• Universe (Tenth Edition)
• Roger Freedman, Robert Geller, and William J. Kaufmann
• An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics (Second Edition)
• Bradley W. Carroll and  Dale A. Ostlie
• High Energy Astrophysics (Third Edition)
• Malcolm S. Longair
• Galactic Astronomy
• James Binney and Michael Merrifield
• Galactic Dynamics(Second Edition)
• James Binney and Scott Tremaine
• Galaxies in the Universe: An Introduction (Second Edition)
• Linda S. Sparke and John S. Gallagher, III
• An Introduction to Galaxies and Cosmology(Second Edition)
• Mark H. Jones, Robert J.A. Lambourne, and Stephen Serjeant
• Galaxy Formation and Evolution
• Houjun Mo, Frank van den Bosch and Simon White
• Dynamics of Galaxies (Second Edition)
• Giuseppe Bertin
• Handbook of X-ray Astronomy
• Keith Arnaud, Randall Smith, and Aneta Siemiginowska
• Practical Statistics for Astronomers (Second Edition)
• Jasper V. Wall and Charles R. Jenkins
• Modern Statistical Methods for Astronomy With R Applications
• Eric D. Feigelson and G. Jogesh Babu
• Astronomy Methods: A Physical Approach to Astronomical Observations
• Hale Bradt
• Astrophysics Processes: The Physics of Astronomical Phenomena
• Hale Bradt
• Observational Astrophysics
• Robert C. Smith
• Observational Astronomy: Techniques and Instrumentation
• Edmund C. Sutton
• Textbook on Spherical Astronomy (Sixth Edition)
• W. M. Smart (Revised by R. M. Green)
• Practical Astronomy with your Calculator or Spreadsheet (Fourth Edition)
• Peter Duffett-Smith and Jonathan Zwart
• The Three-Body Problem
• Mauri Valtonen and Hannu Karttunen
• An Introduction to the Sun and Stars
• Simon F. Green and Mark H. Jones
• The Physics and Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei
• Hagai Netzer
• General Relativity and Gravitation
• Abhay Ashtekar,
• Beverly K. Berger, James Isenberg, and Malcolm MacCallum
• Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology
• Robert J. A. Lambourne
• Stellar Evolution Physics Volume 1. Physical Processes in Stellar Interiors
• Icko Iben
• Stellar Evolution Physics Volume 2. Advanced Evolution of Single Stars
• Icko Iben
• Principles of Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
• Cathie Clarke and Bob Carswell
• High-Energy Astrophysics
• Fulvio Melia
• Clusters of Galaxies: Probes of Cosmological Structure and Galaxy
• John S. Mulchaey, Alan Dressler, and Augustus Oemler
• Theoretical Astrophysics Volume 1. Astrophysical Processes
• T. Padmanabhan
• Theoretical Astrophysics Volume 2. Stars and Stellar Systems
• T. Padmanabhan
• Theoretical Astrophysics Volume 3. Galaxies and Cosmology
• T. Padmanabhan
• Astrophysical Flows
• James E. Pringle and Andrew King
• Introduction to Cosmology
• Barbara Ryden
• The First Galaxies in The Universe
• Abraham Loeb and Steven R. Furlanetto
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Read fits (IDL)

PRO data, a, b, c

;read fits

a = MRDFITS('filename',1)

END

Read stureture of fits (IDL)

help,a,/structure
go to look what the structure of fits file

a = MRDFITS('filename',1)

c = a.---

Blackbody radiation function (IDL)

;blackbody radiation

Lambda = FINDGEN(100001,10,10);(mm),wavelength

h = 6.62606876e-34;(J*s),Planck's constant

c = 3e17;(nm/s),the speed of light

k = 1.3806503e-23;(J/K),Boltzmann's constant

B = 100000000000000*(2 * h * (c^2))/((Lambda^5)*(EXP((h*c)/(Lambda*k*T1))-1))

Online license for mac (IDL)

cd /Applications/itt/idl70/bin
./lmutil lmpath -override idl_lmgrd XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Websit of Astronomy

1. Astronomy  http://www.astronomy.com/
2. Nature  http://www.nature.com/
3. Science  http://www.sciencemag.org/
4. Scientific American  http://www.scientificamerican.com/
5. Sky and Telescope  http://www.skyandtelescope.com/
6. Astronomy Now  http://www.astronomynow.com/
7. ESA  http://www.esa.int/ESA
8. NASA http://www.nasa.gov/
9. Astronomy Picture of the Day  http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html