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Originally Posted by Outbackmanyep
FD...What books have you got?
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books on comets OBM? ..none ..LOL, I have a number of general chart books and astro dictionaries, hartungs that sort of thing, even an apparently now rare copy of an aussie general beginners book 'the southern sky - a practical guide to astronomy' by david reidy and ken wallace from when i started getting serious about astronomy some 13 or so years ago
I saw a link to 'Introduction to Comets' By John C. Brandt, Robert DeWitt Chapman mentioned on ml recently, and it go me going, i think i'll get that first
I do have 13 years worth of southern astro mags, and I did have all the other mags, but only kept the ones with comet articles/pics in them, particularly HB and B2 era.
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=...Y-NQ7I#PPP1,M1
the ICQ handbook has always interested me too
but the internet has been my library, and a damn good one at that, how many tomes worth I have i read in 5-6 years of being on ml alone! lol.
and really the best way to learn about comets is to follow them visually, and on the net, fastidously for many years, thats the truly only way to learn about them i reckon, particularly observing wise..
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Originally Posted by 1onders]
You'll like this one Kearn. Earlier this year I went to the Qld University Book Sale and picked up some fantastic books at bargain basement prices (early Hartung for example for $1.50 )..but....I picked up a copy of "Comets: A Chronological History of Observations, Science, Myth and Folklore" by Donald K Yeomans (worked in the Jet Propulsion Lab at California Institure of Technology) 1991. |
That sounds very decent Paul, nice price!!!, and the hartungs!!!! wow! I would of bought them too, i do hope to get a library of comet books happening eventually
thanks for tip!