David H. Levy

Meteors occur when a meteoroid, a speck of dust in space, enters the Earth's atmosphere, resulting in a 'shooting star'. ...

David H. Levy

Variable stars are fascinating objects to observe; found all over the sky, they change in brightness over time and can ...

Stephen James O'Meara

Stephen O'Meara's new and exciting observing guide spotlights an original selection of 109 deep-sky objects that will appeal to sky-watchers ...

The Modern Astronomer's Guide

Gerald North

In this updated Second Edition, the author provides extensive practical advice and sophisticated background knowledge of the Moon and of ...

Getting Started in Recreational Astronomy

Paul E. Kinzer

A Simple Guide to the Heavens

Stephen James O'Meara

Month by month, constellation by constellation, star by star, Stephen James O’Meara takes readers on a celestial journey to many ...

Stephen James O'Meara

The Herschel 400 is a list of 400 galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters, picked from over 2,500 deep-sky objects discovered ...

Ian Ridpath, Illustrated by Wil Tirion

In full colour throughout, the seventh edition of this famous guide to the night sky contains updated planet positions and ...

Ian Ridpath, Illustrated by Wil Tirion

David Ellyard, Wil Tirion

The Southern Sky Guide is a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide to the brilliant and ever-changing sights of the southern sky ...

A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope - and How to Find Them

Guy Consolmagno, Dan M. Davis

Turn Left at Orion is a guidebook for beginning amateur astronomers, containing all the information needed to find over a ...

Highlights of the Deep Sky

Ronald Stoyan, Stefan Binnewies, Susanne Friedrich, Translated by Klaus-Peter Schroeder

The 110 deep sky objects in the Messier catalog are among the most popular targets for amateur observers. This stunning ...

Jacqueline Mitton

Written for non-specialists, this new dictionary presents a galaxy of information and can be used both as a comprehensive reference ...

A Catalog of Comets

Gary W. Kronk

James B. Kaler

This unique encyclopedia provides a fascinating and fully comprehensive description of stars and their natures and is filled with beautiful ...

Wil Tirion

This best-selling general atlas of the sky is ideal for beginners and more advanced observers. The book includes 28 easy-to-use ...

John R. Percy

Variable stars are those that change brightness. They come in many varieties, but each one provides important information about the ...

Michael A. Covington

In this concise guide, experienced astrophotography expert Michael Covington outlines the simple, enduring basics that will enable you to get ...

Steve B. Howell

Updated to include all the latest developments in CCDs, this second edition of the Handbook of CCD Astronomy is an ...

Edwin Budding, Osman Demircan

Completely updated, this second edition gives a broad review of astronomical photometry to provide an understanding of astrophysics from a ...

Edited by Mario Livio, Keith Noll, Massimo Stiavelli

The Hubble Space Telescope has made some of the most dramatic discoveries in the history of astronomy. From its vantage ...

Jeff Kanipe

Through 52 articles arranged week by week, A Skywatcher’s Year guides readers to celestial events that occur or are visible ...

Leslie Sage, Gail Aschenbrenner

For more than 40 years, astronomers have used the telescopes at Kitt Peak to make many remarkable discoveries about the ...

Gerald North

For the amateur astronomer who is bored with constellation spotting and elementary observing, this indispensable guide will put new zest ...

A. Labeyrie, S. G. Lipson, P. Nisenson

This is the first book on optical stellar interferometry. It describes the theories of interferometry, how they are put into ...

John Hearnshaw

The Evolving Universe

Michael Zeilik

Thoroughly updated, Astronomy: The Evolving Universe, Ninth Edition, equips the introductory astronomy student with the essential tools for understanding the ...

Michael A. Covington

This much expanded and fully updated edition of the best-selling handbook. Astrophotography for the Amateur provides a complete guide to ...

John E. Westfall

This Atlas contains electronic images of the Moon obtained at 47 different phases covering the lunar month. This observing guide ...

A History of Planetary Astronomy

David Leverington

Babylon to Voyager and Beyond describes the fascinating story of planetary research from the time of the Babylonians and Ancient ...

Exploring the Outer Limits of the Solar System

John Davies

The solar system has more than doubled in size since 1992. For the first time in almost two centuries an ...

Jacqueline Mitton

Anyone involved with astronomy, either professionally or as a leisure interest, will find this dictionary a handy and invaluable reference ...

Brian Warner

The study of cataclysmic variables - interacting binary stars containing a white dwarf accreting from an orbiting companion - is ...

Practical Amateur Astronomy Volume 2

Michael A. Covington

This unique guide covers both traditional and novel aspects of studying the night sky. In addition to the more standard ...

The Study of Remnants from the Birth of the Solar System

Jacques Crovisier, Thérèse Encrenaz, Translated by Stephen Lyle, Foreword by Roger Maurice Bonnet

This book provides a comprehensive overview of our current knowledge of comets. It presents a fascinating survey of the study ...

A Catalog of Comets

Gary W. Kronk

Cometography is a catalog of every comet observed throughout history. It is the most complete and comprehensive collection of data ...

A Catalog of Comets

Gary W. Kronk

Cometography is a four-volume catalog of every comet observed throughout history. It is the most complete and comprehensive collection of ...

Exploding Stars, Black Holes, and Mapping the Universe

J. Craig Wheeler

From supernovae and gamma-ray bursts to the accelerating Universe, this will be essential reading for undergraduate students in astronomy and ...

Stephen James O'Meara, Foreword by David H. Levy

This completely new work will inspire amateur astronomers to visit the 110 most famous galaxies, clusters and nebulae in the ...

From the Ultraviolet to the Submillimeter

George Rieke

Detection of Light provides a comprehensive overview of the important approaches to photon detection from ultraviolet to submillimeter spectral regions. ...

Jean Lacroux, Christian Legrand, Translated by Christopher Sutcliffe

This easy-to-use guide to discovering lunar sites takes the reader through fourteen guided observing sessions from New Moon to Full ...

Harry Nussbaumer, Lydia Bieri, Foreword by Allan Sandage

Patrick Moore

On a starry night, the beauty and immensity of our universe is awe-inspiring. Patrick Moore has painstakingly researched Exploring the ...

Robert Burnham, Wil Tirion

Exploring the Starry Sky is the perfect guide for anyone interested in stargazing for the first time. With large, colourful, ...

Comets and Meteors, the Decisive Centuries, in British Art and Science

Roberta J. M. Olson, Jay M. Pasachoff

Comets and meteors are spectacular and awe-inspiring natural phenomena, which are among nature’s most compelling icons. Britain in the eighteenth ...

Edited by A. C. Fabian, K. A. Pounds, R. D. Blandford

In the past few years, the launches of Chandra and XMM-Newton have revolutionised research in X-ray astronomy. The high quality ...

Jean Kovalevsky, P. Kenneth Seidelmann

Astrometry encompasses all that is necessary to provide the positions and motions of celestial bodies. This includes observational techniques, instrumentation, ...

Robert Burnham, Foreword by David H. Levy

This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of the biggest and most awe-inspiring of all comets: those that have earned ...

Practical Amateur Astronomy Volume 1

Michael A. Covington

How to Use a Computerized Telescope is the first handbook that describes how to get your computerized telescope up and ...

Edited by Pat Dasch

Scientists have only recently come to realise that ice is widespread in our solar system. This book focuses on the ...

John C. Brandt, Robert D. Chapman

We have now reached an exciting time in cometary research. This book describes the wealth of information known prior to ...

The 20th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate

Steven J. Dick

Life on Other Worlds places the twentieth century extraterrestrial life debate in historical perspective. It covers a broad range of ...

Exploring the Giant Moon of Saturn

Ralph Lorenz, Jacqueline Mitton

This is a revealing account of the second largest moon in our solar system. This world in orbit around Saturn ...

Views from Here to Infinity

Serge Brunier, Translated by Storm Dunlop

Witness the birth of stars; scan the sky for extrasolar planets; venture near black holes; travel into the realm of ...

Peter Jenniskens

Meteoroids and Cosmic Dust and their Interactions with the Earth's Upper Atmosphere

Edited by Edmond Murad, Iwan P. Williams

A huge amount of extraterrestrial matter enters the Earth’s atmosphere every year and eventually settles on the ground. This book ...

Edited by Michael J. S. Belton, Thomas H. Morgan, Nalin H. Samarasinha, Donald K. Yeomans

Large asteroids and comets can collide with the Earth with severe consequences. Collisions are a random process and could occur ...

A Guide to Observational Astronomy and Planetary Science

Edited by Andrew J. Norton

Observing the Universe introduces a range of techniques and skills that will be useful for those wishing to undertake observational ...

Edited by Shahn Majid, With contributions by Alain Connes, Michael Heller, Roger Penrose, John Polkinghorne, Andrew Taylor

Humanity's Fate in the Universe

Nikos Prantzos, Translated by Stephen Lyle

How could we colonise Mars, and travel to distant stars? What is the ultimate fate of the Solar System, and ...

From the Big Bang to the Emergence of Life and Intelligence

Armand H. Delsemme, Foreword by Christian de Duve

This book traces the remarkable story of the emergence of life and intelligence right through the complex evolutionary history of ...

The Magnetism and Thrill of Planetary Exploration

Edited by S. Alan Stern

What have Apollo, Voyager, Magellan and Galileo told us about the solar system? In Our Worlds, eight planetary scientists explain ...

S. M. Chong, Albert Lim, P. S. Ang

The Photographic Atlas of the Moon is a day-by-day photographic guide to observing the features of the Moon through a ...

Theory, Observations, and Experiments

Edited by Hubert Klahr, Wolfgang Brandner

This volume addresses fundamental questions concerning the formation of planetary systems in general, and of our solar system in particular. ...

Andrew Ball, James Garry, Ralph Lorenz, Viktor Kerzhanovich

This book provides a concise but broad overview of the engineering, science and flight history of planetary landers and atmospheric ...

Michael Covington

Together, this two volume set provides the amateur astronomer with all the information they require in order to set up ...

J. V. Wall, C. R. Jenkins

This practical handbook presents the most relevant statistical and probabilistic machinery for use in observational astronomy. Classical parametric and non-parametric ...

Kitty Ferguson

What is a black hole? Could we survive a visit to one? Have we yet discovered any real black holes? ...

Bruce Jakosky

Does life exist on other planets? This topical book presents the scientific basis for thinking there may be life elsewhere ...

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar

Using simple analogies and a wealth of illustrations, Professor Narlikar skilfully steers us through a cosmic journey of discovery, starting ...

Alan Hirshfeld, Roger W. Sinnott, Frangois Ochsenbein

This compendium summarises the astronomical data for all stars brighter than magnitude 8.0. For every object listed, it includes designations ...

Carl D. Murray, Stanley F. Dermott

This is the first comprehensive introduction to the dynamics of the Solar System and a benchmark publication in the field ...

Effective Strategies for Educators Worldwide

Edited by Jay Pasachoff, John Percy

This volume highlights the many places for astronomy in the curriculum; relevant education research and ‘best practice’; strategies for pre-service ...

William Millar

An introduction to the night sky for amateur astronomers who desire a deeper understanding of the principles of naked-eye astronomy. ...

John Bally, Bo Reipurth

This fascinating book combines the latest astronomical images and data with descriptions of exciting discoveries in star and planet formation. ...

Edited by Michael Hoskin

Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences, and one which has repeatedly led to fundamental changes in our view of ...

James Mullaney, Illustrated by Wil Tirion

Michael E. Bakich

What figures do the constellations of the night sky represent? What are the properties of the stars that they comprise? ...

Kenneth R. Lang

The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the planets and their moons. Writing ...

Ben Bussey, Paul D. Spudis

This up-to-date atlas of the Moon is based on data from the Clementine and other lunar missions. The first part ...

Ronald Greeley, Raymond Batson

Now available in a smaller user-friendly format, The Compact NASA Atlas of the Solar System is the definitive reference atlas ...

A History of Astrophysics and Cosmology

Malcolm S. Longair

The twentieth-century witnessed the development of astrophysics and cosmology from subjects which scarcely existed to two of the most exciting ...

Jay M. Pasachoff, Hyron Spinrad, Patrick Osmer, Edward S. Cheng

The quest for the farthest objects in the Universe remains one of the most challenging to modern astronomy. Peering deeper ...

Erich Robert Paul

The method that has come to dominate cosmology more recently is ‘statistical’ in nature, because it was based on the ...

Edited by Patrick Martinez, Translated by Storm Dunlop

How can you find new minor planets, comets and novae? How do you use photoelectric detectors to derive the temperatures ...

Derek W. G. Sears

This clear and systematic text summarises the ideas surrounding the origin and history of chondrules and chondrites, drawing on research ...

Igor D. Novikov, Translated by Vitaly Kisin

Can we change the past? The surprising answer to this question can be found in this book. Novikov details the ...

Fredric W. Taylor

David Ellyard, Wil Tirion

This unique and accessible book provides a handy reference to the skies visible from the countries of the southern hemisphere ...

Bruce Stephenson, Marvin Bolt, Anna Felicity Friedman

The Universe Unveiled documents the human desire through history to explore and understand our world. Taking a unique approach, it ...

Key Issues in Astronomy and Cosmology

Edited by Guido Münch, Antonio Mampaso, Francisco Sánchez

The Universe at Large presents a unique survey of the key questions outstanding in contemporary astronomy and cosmology. In this ...

Ronald J. Buta, Harold G. Corwin, Stephen C. Odewahn

This atlas provides a comprehensive illustration of the morphology of normal nearby galaxies and how they are classified in the ...

Peter L. Manly

Peter L. Manly surveys more than 150 unusual telescopes designed by amateur and professional astronomers to suit some special need. ...

Edited by J. M. T. Thompson

Writing in a popular and well illustrated style, leading young scientists describe their research and give their visions of future ...

The Thrill of Planetary Exploration as told by Leading Experts

Edited by S. Alan Stern

Worlds Beyond is a fascinating collection of essays by leading planetary scientists, exploring the planets that captivate them. In it ...