...Ray Ward RR 2017/049 A Question and Answer Guide to Astronomy (2nd edition)   Carol   Christian and Jean-René   Roy Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2017 xvi + 344 pp. ISBN 978 1 316 61526 3   (print) ;ISBN 978 1 108216 72 2 (e-book)£19.99 $29.99 (print); $29.99 (e...

...Ray Ward RR 2018/018 Observatories and Telescopes of Modern Times: Ground-Based Optical and Radio Astronomy Facilities Since 1945 David   Leverington   Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2017 xii + 490 pp. ISBN 978 0 521 89993 2 (print);ISBN 978 1 316 842331 1   (e-book)£110 $175...

...Ray Ward Astronomy Stars Constellations RR 2017/229A Walk Through the Heavens: A Guide to Stars and Constellations and Their Legends (4th edition) Milton D.   Heifetz and Wil   Tirion Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2017 ix + 97 pp. ISBN 978 1 316 64551 2   (print...

... for a worldwide audience. This book is ideal for a beginner just getting into astronomy and it is an easy read. Hence, it would be good in a general reference library, but, as the title suggests, it is only covers the basics. RR 2017/053 Stargazing Basics: Getting Started in Recreational Astronomy (2nd...

... Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only --> Astronomy Biology Encyclopedias All entries conclude with a list of references or sources for further reading. Unfortunately, the use of references within the text is variable. Some authors cite other...

...-book) £34.99 $44.99 Spiral bound © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only --> Astronomy Our Sun is an exception in its singleness: most if not all stars in our Galaxy were formed as members of double-star systems. Nearly all the double stars...

...Alana Farrell Astronomy Biography Encyclopedias The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers aims to give a comprehensive overview of astronomers from antiquity to contemporary times. Currently, in its second edition, this work contains 1,850 biographical sketches...

.... Many years ago, I promised myself that, when the time was right, I would take up astronomy as an amateur pastime. The right time was some eight years ago, and although my experience of life had prepared me well, I was surprised at how much I had to learn before becoming comfortable with it. Every hobby...

...Kevin McDonough The Encyclopedia of the History of Astronomy and Astrophysics is written by David Leverington, author of similar titles including A History of Astronomy from 1890 to Present (Leverington, 1996) and Babylon to Voyager and Beyond: A History of Planetary...

... --> Astronomy Dictionaries It is a seemingly universal human urge to name things: from earliest times that has applied to celestial objects as well as terrestrial. Stars and planets have been named from ancient times, and as the discovery of new planets outside the solar system has advanced, so have...

...Joan Williamson The Solar System: Great Astronomers Ipswich, MA Salem Press 2013 vii+138 pp. 9781429837989(print);9781429838047(e-book) £25.50 $29.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 --> Astronomy History This well-compiled paperback...

... and information provided, further knowledge on astronomy is needed. This website was created by and for amateur astronomers, and anyone with a love for the subject should find it easy to use. The Night Sky Atlas was created by Gill Couto, an amateur astronomer with a background in engineering. He...

...Gareth J. Johnson Astronomy Biology Encyclopaedias Space studies “Are we alone?” asks the foreword to this work, which poses what is perhaps one of humankind and science's greatest unsolved conundrums. Sadly this work does not set out to answer this question, but rather it seeks...

...Don Macmillan © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data Service . URL: http://adswww.harvard.edu/ : High Energy Astrophysics Division, Harvard‐Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics   Last Visited March 2012 . Gratis Astronomy...

... Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 --> Astronomy Guides and handbooks The descriptions are excellent and the observer is left in no doubt as to what to look for. For example, in the item listed under Object no. 567, the Ring Nebula...

...Sean Lawrence Will   Gater and Anton   Vamplew . The Practical Astronomer . London : Dorling Kindersley   2010 . 256 pp. , ISBN: 978 1 4053 5620 6   £14.99 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 --> Astronomy The Practical Astronomer...

...Gareth J. Johnson Eric   Weisstein . Eric Weissteins's World of Astronomy . URL: http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/ : Woldfram Research   Last visited December 2009 . Gratis © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Astronomy Electronic media...

...Clari Hunt Gerald   North . Observing the Moon: The Modern Astronomer's Guide (2nd edition) . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press   2007 . xi+408 pp. , ISBN: 978 0521 87407 6   £25, $45 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Astronomy Moon...

...Peter Wellburn Editor‐in‐Chief Thomas   Hockey . Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers . Heidelberg and New York, NY : Springer   2007 . , ISBN: 978 0 387 31022 0   £307/$499 2 vols © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Astronomy Encyclopedias History...

..., therefore, to find no entry for Patrick Moore who has perhaps done more than most to popularise interest in astronomy in the UK. In fact biographical entries tended to concentrate heavily on standard names from the past at the expense of more recent experts. Readers will not be surprised, therefore, to find...