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Through the Telescope : A Guide for the Amateur Astronomer
Patricia L. Barnes-Svarney
Paperback - $31.95
Explore the craters of the moon, the satellites of Jupiter, and the rings of Saturn. Travel as close as you wish, or as far as your imagination can take you. With this practical, hands-on guidebook for the amateur astronomer as your roadmap, the univ ...
The Sextant Handbook
Bruce Bauer
Paperback - $27.95
"The wealth of useful material is prodigious and by the time one has reached the back cover, the sextant is an old friend. Just as important, Cdr. Bauer deals comprehensively with maintenance and service, and his advice on how to select and assess a ...
Next Generation Infrared Space Observatory
S. J. Bell Burnell
Hardcover - $466.95
Infrared astronomy has undergone an enormous revolution during the last decade. Despite the great technical difficulties of building detectors in a cryogenic environment, the scientific advances in infrared astronomy have been astounding. In the near ...
The Nature of Unidentified Galactic High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources
Alberto Carraminana
Hardcover - $324.95
This is the first book dedicated to unidentified celestial gamma-ray sources. The launch of the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory allowed the first all-sky surveys in gamma-rays, the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation. The Energetic Gamma-R ...
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky
Mark R. Chartrand
Paperback - $30.95
The perfect companion volume for Hale-Bopp watchers, this guide explores the fabulous mysteries above, from planets in our solar system to the constellations in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, stars, galaxies (including the Milky Way), ne ...
Night Sky : A Guide to Field Identification
Mark R. Chartrand
Paperback - $23.95
This simple-to-use, illustrated guide to the stars features information on stars, constellations, and more, plus photos in full color and black and white.
Visual Astronomy Under Dark Skies : A New Approach to Observing Deep Space
Antony Cooke
Paperback - $59.95
Modern astronomical telescopes, along with other advances in technology, have brought the deep sky star clusters, nebulae and the galaxies within reach of amateur astronomers. And it isn't even necessary to image many of these deep-sky objects in ord ...