For both professional and amateur astronomers, this 2003 yearbook includes an extrensive range of specially commissioned articles by some of the world's top astronomers, as well as a collection of charts and astronomical data and a month-by-month guide to everything the stargazer can expect to see in the year 2003: planets, eclipses, comets, meteors, nebulae and phases of the moon. Articles include: Stephen Hawkins Celebrates his 60th birthday by Paul Murdin; Near-Earth Objects: Getting Up Close and Personal by Duncan Steel; and Astronomers Behaving Badly by Fred Watson.
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