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Stars
Thomas K. Adamson
Library Binding - $34.95
From Earth, stars look like small points of light. Up close, youll find that some stars are larger than Earth. Read about the kinds of stars that light up the night sky.
Star Names : Their Lore and Meaning
Richard Allen
Paperback - $27.95
Star names, the zodiac, constellations; folklore and literature associated with heavens. The basic book of its field. Fascinating reading solidly based on years of thorough research into astronomical writings and observations of the ancient Chinese, ...
Star Names and Their Meanings
Richard Hinckley Allen
Paperback - $68.95
This volume of star names is not intended for the professional astronomer, but as a reference to fill a vacancy in popular astronomical literature. It contains a sketch of the lunar and solar zodiacs which are constantly alluded to in the treating of ...
Star Clusters and How to Observe Them
Mark Allison
Paperback - $54.95
ASTRONOMERS OBSERVING GUIDES provide up-to-date information for amateur astronomers who want to know all about what it is they are observing. This is the basis of the first part of the book. The second part details observing techniques for practical ...
Navigating the Night Sky : How to Identify the Stars and Constellations
Guilherme de Almeida
Paperback - $65.95
This book will interest anyone who marvels at the night sky and would like to learn to recognise constellations and identify the brightest stars by name. Renowned amateur astronomer, Guilherme de Almeida, dispels the myth that specialist knowledge an ...
The Lives of the Neutron Stars
M. a. Alpar
Hardcover - $1,050.95
As the most compact known observable form of matter, neutron stars offer a fascinating range of problems to astrophysicists. This book offers a collection of reviews of current research on neutron stars, variously observed as radio pulsars, X-ray bin ...
Binary Stars : Selected Topics on Observations and Physical Processes
M. J. Arevalo
Hardcover - $210.95
More than half of all stars in the universe formed and evolved as binary systems and their study is essential for understanding stellar and galactic evolution. The six lectures in this book give both a readable introduction and an up-to-date review o ...
Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars with CDROM
Robert W. Argyle
Paperback - $73.95
Double stars are the rule, rather than the exception: our solar system, having a single sun, is in the minority. Orbiting satellites, ground-based observatories and interferometers have all helped discover many hundreds of new pairs - but this has le ...
The Cambridge Guide to the Constellations
Michael E. Bakich
Paperback - $82.95
Finally, a book that brings together a variety of information about constellations, including the size and visibility of all 88 constellations, former locations of extinct constellations, the number of visible stars in each constellation and much mor ...