[Aavso-photometry] Photometry Text - Opinions

[Stan Walker]

Hi Michael,

I've worked with Ed - supplying UBV measures of binaries and Cepheids - a 
lot but saw the earlier edition only briefly. He's largely a stellar 
modelling person and has done little practical observing - which come across 
from your comments. But his earlier book gave a good idea of what happened 
to the measures - they don't just go into a black hole.

Regards,
Stan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Koppelman" <lolife at bitstream.net>
To: "Greg Crawford" <gc at nelsonbay.com>
Cc: <aavso-photometry at aavso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Aavso-photometry] Photometry Text - Opinions


>I have Budding's 1st edition and it is very math-heavy. I should pull
> it out again now that I'm more familiar with the topic. From what I
> recall, if you really want to understand the deep theory, it is a
> great book but it was less useful as a practical manual. This might
> be a very good update, though.
>
> M.
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Greg Crawford wrote:
>
>> Obviously it is not possible for any general review to take place
>> before
>> release, but I wondered if anyone has read any of the first
>> author's - Edwin
>> Budding's - previous photometry books and would offer an opinion
>> about the
>> potential of this text. The forthcoming book is supposed to be
>> updated with
>> material on CCDs.
>
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