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A Buyers and Users Guide to Astronomical Telescopes & Binoculars

This new guide provides an extensive overview of astronomical binoculars and telescopes. It includes detailed up-to-date ...

Aurora

The uniquely beautiful light display of an aurora is the result of charged particles colliding with tenuous atmospheric oxygen ...

Binocular Astronomy

Anyone who has used a binocular telescope or even wide-field binoculars to look at the night sky will know just how breathtakingly ...

Double & Multiple Stars, and How to Observe Them

The first part of Jim Mullaney’s book provides a comprehensive review of the different classes of double and multiple systems, ...

Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites

Imagine the unique experience of being the very first person to hold a newly-found meteorite in your hand – a rock from ...

Galaxies and How to Observe Them

Satisfies the need for a modern, comprehensive review in combining the three major aspects: the physical background on the ...

Jupiter and How to Observe It

Jupiter is one of the most spectacular observing targets for amateur astronomers. There are various books about observing ...

Nebulae and How to Observe Them

This book is a mine of information for all levels of amateur astronomy, from relative beginners to experienced observers. ...

Observing our Changing Earth

Contains a selection of 99 papers from the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) quadrennial General Assembly, held ...

Polar Remote Sensing

Volume 2 focuses on the ice sheets, icebergs, and interactions between ice sheets and the atmosphere and ocean. It contains ...

Saturn and How to Observe It

Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system, and the only one with a spectacular ring system easily visible from ...

Supernovae and How to Observe Them

Supernovae mark the deaths of massive stars or of white dwarfs in binary systems. Even when they occur in galaxies millions ...

The Herschel Objects, and How to Observe Them

Deep-sky observers are always on the lookout for new observing challenges. The Herschel Objects, and How to Observe them ...

The Moon and How to Observe It

The Moon is the most commonly observed of all astronomical objects. Here, Peter Grego provides a concise, readable description ...

The STEREO Mission

The STEREO mission uses twin heliospheric orbiters to track solar disturbances from their initiation to 1 AU. This book ...

The Urban Astronomers Guide

Given the right techniques, urban astronomers can routinely observe deep-sky objects night after night – something most ...

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