Recently I found this astronomy book in Perths best book store "Boffins".
Called "Astronomy Hacks, tips and tools for observing the night sky" by Robert and Barbara Thompson and published by O'Reilly Media Inc. 2005.
It is written along the lines of the Dummies series of books and covers all sorts of information useful to beginers and more advanced alike.
Topics are many and include, choosing your scope, collomation (in plain language),using star charts and how to star hop. Lens's and viewing and many more. Almost if you can think of a question it's there.
388 pages and thoroughly recomended. 10/10. One of my best $50's spent.
Hope this may be of use to some of our beginners out there.
