Re: Percy (ed) book

[jg <jg@jgws.freeisp.co.uk>]

aah@nofs.navy.mil wrote:
> 
> Michael K. wrote:
> >I don't mind buying text books. If you know something good, please let me
> >know and I'll buy it. A web site would, of course, be very welcome to.
>   The best published paper I know of is pretty dated, but still good
> for the main techniques:  Fullerton, "Searching for Periodicity in
> Astronomical Data," in The Study of Variable Stars Using Small Telescopes,
> ed. J. R. Percy, Cambridge Press, 1986, p201ff.

Ahah!  Still a source of one of the best articles on O-C I've ever seen.

Actually got my copy for a tenner at a second hand book shop called
Galloways and Porters or similar in Cambridge itself, just a coupla
hundred yards from CUP's own main outlet.  They used to have a few CUP
publications from the surplus stock.  That reminds me...

A quick check via CUPs website shows the above book to be out of print
since 1999, which is a pity.

CUP has a separate website and trading nature in the USA, you could do a
web search for that website, or try whatever second hand book or amazon
routes you have in your home country.


D'ya know, now I think about it, that book may well be to blame for
everything...  ...I'd never even thought about variable stars till I
read it.

Cheers

John