Walker's Spectral Atlas

[Merlin66]

The long awaited print copy of Richard's excellent atlas will be available from CUP April next year.
The supporting Handbook by Richard and Marc will also be available.
A 20% pre-delivery discount is available, see the attached flyer.

[NeilW]

Excellent, thanks Ken.

[inline_online]

Curses, i've already placed my Christmas orders.
I'd love to add those two books to my collection.

[NeilW]

Mmm....I clicked on the link on the flyer and it says "This promotion is currently unavailable in your location."

[Merlin66]

Neil,
Hmmm, I'll follow up on that - let you know the outcome.
Ken

[Merlin66]

OK, I've been in contact with the authors and they have in turn managed to get CUP to acknowledge the Australian market (!?)
They have re-issued the flyer for Asia-Pac.
The discount code should now work.
Valid to the end of Jan 2017

[NeilW]

Thanks Ken, much appreciated.

[NeilW]

Oh dear. Now the link on the new flyer returns "Cambridge University Press - Page Not Found"

[Merlin66]

hmmm,
seems to be a "temporary" hitch!
Hopefully available soon.

[NeilW]

The "www.cambridge.org/SPECTR17 " is still not working :(

[Merlin66]

I've just been advised it should be accessible from the 18th Jan.
I hope they are correct.

[anthony.tony]

http://www.booktopia.com.au/spectral-atlas-for-amateur-astronomers-richard-walker/prod9781107165908.html - Alink here to Booktopia and Price AU dollars

[NeilW]

Gee, that's a fair bit more than the conversion of the price on the flyer. Even Cambridge's full price of £60.00 is only around $AUD 100.00 and Book Depository reckon the full price is $AUD 180.00 :eek:

[Merlin66]

Update,
There is now a page available to pre-order the Atlas and Handbook with the 20% discount. The prices are quoted in us$ and the quoted postage is as usual a killer at us$40 for the set.
I'll post the link ASAP.
http://www.cambridge.org/academic/subjects/astronomy/amateur-and-popular-astronomy/spectral-atlas-amateur-astronomers-guide-spectra-astronomical-objects-and-terrestrial-light-sources?

[anthony.tony]

FishPond Frieght free - http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Spectral-Atlas-for-Amateur-Astronomers-Richard-Walker/9781107165908 - $126.00 preorder No stacked Frieght charges . Tony

[beren]

https://www.bookdepository.com/search?searchTerm=Richard+walker+Sp ectroscopy&search=Find+book

The book depository has it for 94 au pre order with free freight ....awesome look forward to it 🙂

[Merlin66]

Beren,
Caution!
That's Marc's associated handbook, not Richard's atlas!
The atlas is $125.45

[beren]

🙂 cheers Ken , yes ordered both definitely need the handbook

[beren]

:thumbsup: great, finally the books has arrived, very nice.......got some intensive ( for me ) and interesting reading

[Merlin66]

Glad to hear it's arrived!!
(Some of us are still waiting...........)
It will be interesting to see the differences between the book and the earlier webpage document.
I still believe Richard's Atlas and Kaler's "Stars and their spectra" are the best buys for any amateur interested in spectroscopy.

[NeilW]

FYI Book Depository has the Atlas for $104.41 and the Spectroscopy for Amateur Astronomers for $52.60 at the moment.