Your Astronomy Library

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

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 (Ken)]

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

Must have been popular!

[astro_south (Andrew)]

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 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 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.

[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

Originally Posted by 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

[Dave47tuc (David)]

I have a two bookshelves with over 300 Mag's

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

Many Star charts, atlases etc.

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

[glenc (Glen)]

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

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

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 (Al)]

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!