The Observational Amateur Astronomer

Book Overview

Patrick Moore has pulled together a group of professional and amateur astronomers, each an expert in a particular field, to describe how to observe every category of object that is within reach of an astronomical telescope of modest size. Each chapter deals with a different class of object, covering the whole range of possibilities from the Moon, planets and stars to more specialised observations of comets, novae, and meteors. If you own - or are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540198997
• ISBN13: 9783540198994
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"