Your Astronomy Library

[seeker372011]

we have had a couple of recent threads on the Astro mags people but what else do you have in your Astro library?

Currently I own:



Turn left at Orion-Consolmagno and Davis

Star Atlas 2000-Tirion and Sinnott

Touring the Universe with Binoculars-Harrington

Binocular Astronomy-Crossen and Tition

Practical Skywatching-Levy and O'Bryne

Observing the Moon-Folkes

Stars-Time/Life

The Australian Guide to Skywatching-Thompson

The first four I purchased from Amazon, the rest locally.


At this moment I have on loan from my local library Norton's Star Atlas 2000 and Patrick Moore's The Moon..... and I'm not including my copies of Stephen Hawking or Brian Greene's books, as these are popular science not astronomy.

but despite all this, to answer Mike's quiz, I turned to google! :doh:

[acropolite]

I've only got a three,

The Hamylyn Guide to Astronomy
Philips Atlas of the Universe (Patrick Moore)
The Seven Sisters of the Pleades (stories from around the world)
Forgot Astronomy2005 that makes four...

I'm the same, googled the answers....:P

[cometcatcher]

Atlas of the Universe (Patrick Moore)
Uranometria star atlas
Burnham's Celestial Handbook (3 volumes)
Colours of the galaxies (David Malin)
Comet by Carl Sagan.
And of course Astronomy xxxx for every year.
A couple of others that are burried a bit deep to get at. :P

[fringe_dweller]

Collins Gem "Night Sky" (1985) Ian Ridpath/Wil Tirion
"The Southern Sky" (a practical guide to astronomy) David Reidy/Ken Wallace 1992 print - this was my first good book - even if there was some major mess ups in the printing of my version!!
Collins "Dictionary of Astronomy" - 1994 print
Hard cover version of "Hartung's Astronomical Objects for Southern telescopes" second edition David Malin/David Frew
much loved and worn dew damaged version of "the Southern Sky Guide" David Ellyard/Wil Tirion - 1995 print
10 years of Astronomy xxxx from quasar publishing :) some of those are a bit loved to death as well
I have the second edition Covington astrophotography book as well somewhere, but thats a different category? I am have some general topic stuff too
Have an old nice full set of "SkyAtlas 2000" laminated charts too
might be a few other books around to i cant remember
Kearn

[h0ughy]

I will update later but I know I have S&T from 1966 through to the present day, astronomy mag from 1989, all S&S, ALL SOuthern Astronomy, a couple of patrick moores books (one I won from the British Astronomy Now mag - fireside astronomy) 3 moon books, and a few others, I will actually have to go and have a look.

[TidaLpHasE]

I have only two, The Australian Guide to Stargazing second edition by G.Thomson,
A Walk Through The Southern Sky by M.Heifetz and W.Tirion.

I also have a rapidly growing collection of Sky & Space, and Australian Sky & Telescope :thumbsup:

[seeker372011]

loved that Southern Sky by Reidy and Wallace book myself..borrowed it so many times from my library..unfortunately its out of print

I tried to order it through Borders once..they took my deposit but returned it after a couple of weeks


Ken Wallace , of course, is a co-auther of the Astronomy xxxx ephemeris

[Mick]

Comet by Carl Sagan now thats a good book. I just got The Starlore Handbook by Geoffret Cornelius.

[33South]

You collect a few over 45+ years, growing up in UK before the days of the PC they helped with the withdrawl symptoms caused by bad weather & short summer nights.
:rain: (http://misc.php?do=getsmilies&wysiwyg=1&forumid=4#)

Heres a selection of my favourites with number one being "Messiers Nebulae and Star Clusters"

General

The Stars in Their Courses - 1931 Sir James Jeans
Guide to the Stars 1961 - Patrick Moore
Astronomy - 1962 Fred Hoyle
Amateur Astronomers Handbook - 1979 J.B.Sidwick
The Light-Hearted Astronomer - 1984 Ken Fulton
Celestial Basic - 1982 Eric Burgess (Programming astro algorithms)

Observing

Norton's Star Atlas - 1969 Norton & Inglis
Messiers Nebulae and Star Clusters - 1968 Kenneth Glyn Jones
A Field Guide To the Stars and Planets - 1975 Donald Menzel
An Aurora Watchers Handbook - 1992 Neil Davis
The Australian Guide To Stargazing - 2000 Gregg D. Thompson
Cambridge Star Atlas - 2000.0 Wil Tirion


Some of the older books make interesting reading in retrospect, but didnt help with The Quiz!

[SpaceGeek]

:cool: i own a few:

Stargazing With A Telescope-Robin Scagell
Southern Starfinder-John Woodruff and Wil Tirion
Astronomy: The Definitive Guide-Robert Burnham, Alan Dyer and Jeff Kanipe
1001 Facts About Space-Carole Stott and Clint Twist
Astronomy 2005-Glenn Dawes, Peter Northfield and Ken Wallace

Also an increasing collection of AS&T-the best mag around.

Same again, i google wot i cant find

SpaceGeek;)

[RB]

Found this great little book:

Introduction to Digital Astrophotography - Robert Reeves.
Great book for both the amateur and the amateur amateur. :)
Has a great section on the Philips ToUcam too.
Walks you through the setup, what setting to use and final processing.

Havn't finished it yet but love it so far.
:thumbsup:

[ving]

I work in a library...
Nuff said! :P

[cometcatcher]

Ving wins!

[dhumpie]

I have got quite a collection...mostly devoted to DSO's. Here is the incomplete list (can't remember what I have off the top of my head :)
Touring the Universe through binoculars-Harrington
Star Ware 2 and 3-Harrington
Star Watch-Harrington
Deep Sky Companions: The Messier Obects-O'Meara
Deep Sky Companions: The Caldwell Objects-O'Meara
Deep Sky Observer's Guide-Bone
Deep Sky Wonders-Houston
Cambridge Deep Sky Album-Newton
Practical Skywatching-Levy and O'Bryne
Skywatching-Levy
Collins Gem "Night Sky"-Ridpath/Tirion

Some which I had but sold:
Stargazing With A Telescope-Scagell
Hands on Astronomy A Cambridge Guide to equipment and accessories
City Astronomy-Scagell
The Australian Guide to Skywatching-Thompson

Darren

[anthony2302749]

Hi all

In the spirit of sharing, I have collected over 40 books on the subject of astronomy and 12 books on the subject of manned space flight, plus countless number of astronomy magazines like S&T.

Here is just sample of books in my library:

Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing (New Edition)
CCD Astronomy
Wide-Field Astrophotography
The Dobsonian Telescope
Burnham’s Celestial Handbook Vol 1,2 & 3
Astronomical Objects for the Southern Telescope
Deep-Sky Companions: The Caldwell Objects
Atlas of the Moon by Antonin Rukl (1<SUP>st</SUP> edition)
Full Moon by Michael Light
Etc

Anthony

[fringe_dweller]

Hi Seeker, yes great perfect starter/eyeopener book for me at the time - quirky printers errors in it but - the appendixes section, glossary section, and index section all have exactly two blank pages!!! - I found it very frustrating at the time :)

If we are mentioning magazine collections? I have nearly every S&S from the beginning when they changed over from southern Astronomy - about half or more of the last 11 years of S&T, Astronomy, Astronomy Now plus some others.
a couple of years ago i went thru all the non-aussie ones and thru out all the ones that didnt have great comet pics, or something about comets in them, and some atm stuff maybe :D needed the room
kearn
ps i need some comet books :P
pps Houghy - you sure started collecting very young :P

[anthony2302749]

[QUOTE=fringe_dweller]

ps i need some comet books :P


I don't know if it is still in print but "Comets Vagabonds of Space" by David Seargent a great book to have in your library, looks to be a 1st edition and only cost me $2.95 at a Kings Cross Book Store. No not that type of book store:D

I also have a copy of Comet by Carl Sagan which is also another good read and great to have in your libary as well.

Anthony

[Greg Bryant]

Kearn,

Some comet books [+ ones which have a distinctive comet flavour to them] I've collected over the last two decades are:

"The Origin Of Comets" (Bailey, Clube, Napier)
"Rendezvous In Space: The Science Of Comets" (Brandt, Chapman)
"Comet Hale-Bopp" (Burnham)
"Observing Comets, Asteroids, Meteors, And The Zodiacal Light" (Edberg, Levy)
"Halley's Comet Over Australia" (Greig)
"Comet Fever" (Gropman)
"Comets - A Descriptive Catalog" (Kronk)
"The Quest For Comets" (Levy)
"The Cambridge Guide To Astronomical Discovery" (Liller)
"Starlight Nights" (Peltier)
"Comet" (Sagan, Druyan)
"Comet Of The Century" (Schaaf)
"Comets - Vagabonds Of Space" (Seargent)
"The Great Comet Crash" (Spencer, Mitton)
"Rogue Asteroids & Doomsday Comets" (Steel)
"Impact!" (Verschuur)
"Comets" (Ed. Wilkening)
"Comets - A Chronological History Of Observation, Science, Myth, And Folklore" (Yeomans)

[ballaratdragons]

To show you just how 'Up-to-date' I am, here is a list of my Astro reading matter:

'The Size of the Universe' by F.J. Hargreaves - 1948. ('One Shilling & Sixpence' printed on cover)
'The Amateur Astronomer' by Antonin Rukl - 1979
4 issues of this years 'Aust Sky & Tel'
1 issue of 'night sky' (thanks David pretorius) July/Aug 05
and a kids book called 'Learn about Astronomy' that I bought for my kids.

I too Google for info and use Cartes du Ciel.

That's it! I'm just bursting at the seams with Literature :rofl: Not too bad for 20 years in this hobby!

[Greg Bryant]

Ken,

I also have "The Amateur Astronomer" by Rukl. It was one of the first astronomy books I owned. Some nice Moon maps.

[ballaratdragons]

Yes it has Greg! I still use the book. I have to, it's the only one I have LOL! It is quite a good book.

I actually still use the star maps in the back of it too. Bit hard for me to take the PC outside for Cartes du Ciel.

[anthony2302749]

I also have "The Amateur Astronomer" plus "Atlas of the Moon" by Rukl. I first came across Rukl book "The Amateur Astronomer" at High School it was avaliable from the library. It was constantly out on loan under my name. It was such a great book for information that I copied the first 16 page for personal reference.

I finally got my own copy in the early 80, pick in up at a book sale for about $10. Later on I got my hands on the "Atlas of the Moon" for $12.

Anthony

[ballaratdragons]

I know 'Vermin' (IIS member) in Hobart has Amateur Astronomer by Rukl too.

Must have been popular!

[astro_south]

My library includes:

H-B Astroatlas
Hartung's Astronomical Objects for Southern Telescopes
Deep Sky Companions: The Caldwell Objects
Deep Sky Wonders (Houston - put together by O'Meara)
Sky Atlas 2000 (somewhere around the house!)
Atlas of the Night Sky (Storm Dunlop, Tirion & Rukl)
Space Watching (Australian Geographic)
StarGazer (Watson)
Collins Pocket Guide to Stars and Planets

[fringe_dweller]

Thanks for the excellent tips re a good comet read Anthony and Greg!! I have only heard good things about those two books that yourself and Anthony both mentioned.
Greg :scared2: thats a nice little collection indeed! I would love any of the Kronk books - but at $200-300 a pop i have been holding back :D but they were the ones i wanted to get first up.
and I loved Carl Sagans TV cosmos series in the 70's that was a revolution in motion.
I also really enjoyed reading David Seargent's "Perihilion" over the last couple of years - i didnt subscribe myself, but two mates did and i read theirs and sometimes photocopied their copies if i wanted that issue :) - i would love to see a best of perihilion in a book form maybe? I would buy that :) ........sad it is wound up now or soon i think - and yes I know where to get a hit still
i got into that astronomy course that was on channel two in the early hours of the morning on open university, maybe 8 years ago or more - there was like 100, hour long episodes - well seemed like it? hehe - i taped all of them and watched them till i just about memorised the damn things - very educational starter tho :-)
Cheers
Kearn

[Librarian64]

Uranometria 2000: Deep Sky Atlas. (Vols.1 &2)
Galaxies (Tim Ferris)
Burnham's Celestial Handbook (3 Vols.)
The Midnight Sky (A gorgeous 19th century descriptive guide)
Colours of the Stars (Malin)
Coming of Age in the Milky Way (Ferris)
Double and Multiple Stars and How to Observe Them (Mullaney)
How to Use a Computerized Telescope (Covington)

[mickoking]

My favorites in my astro-library are;

Hartungs objects for southern telescopes 1976 reprint of the original version.

Burnhams celestrial handbook

Uranometria, southern hemisphere version only

The Universe, A book from about 1963 printed by Life. The cover of the book is a beautifull Hale photo of M31. I remember I borrowed the book from a library when I was a kid and it helped spur my interest in Astronomy. I found the copy that I now own in a second hand book shop in Freo.:astron:

[cahullian]

I have a few...but I am new...I'm also a poet and didn't know it....nuff said


Skywatching by David H levy
Jupiter by Garry Hunt & Patrick Moore
Saturn by Garry Hunt & Patrick Moore
Space by John Gribbin In association with the television series
Collins Encyclopedia of the Universe
Philips Astro-Box Southern Hemesphere

For Fun
Don't know much about the universe by Kenneth C. Davis
From other worlds by Hilary Evans

AND MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE
Arthur C. Clarke's RAMA Series

[anthony2302749]

You lucky devil to have a copy of "Saturn" by Hunt & Moore, Ive got "The Moon" by Moore and "Jupiter" by Hunt & Moore. I would love to get "Saturn" and "The Sun" to complete the series.

Anthony

[Dave47tuc]

I have a two bookshelves with over 300 Mag's :rolleyes:

Over 60 Books :rolleyes: About 30 folders with all sorts of astro stuff. :whistle:

Many Star charts, atlases etc.

One of my Favs, telescopes for skygazing. by Henry Paul. :D

[glenc]

Google books have scanned some astronomy books.
See: http://books.google.com/books?rview=1&lr=&q=astronomy&as_brr=3&sa=N&start=0

[seeker372011]

I have recently acquired all three of Stephen O'Meara's books, Sue French's Celestial Sampler, Houston's Deep Sky Wonders and one of the volumes of Burnham's-(will get the rest slowly over time)...
also got a wonderful sky atlas and moon atlas combined-Storm Dunlop's
Atlas of the Night Sky-lovely book !

[timelord]

Gooday,I have Astrophotography for the Amateur, The New CCD Astronomy, Cambridge Encyclopeadia of Astronomy and various Carl Sagan books including DVD set of Cosmos--but my pride and joy is a personally signed copy of John Glenn a Memoir!