British Astronomical Association

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Book Reviews

These reviews of books on astronomical topics are reprinted from the BAA Journal and can be read below without a subscription.

The Wow! List
2024 Feb 2
Kevin Quinn & Alan Beech

Secrets of the Moon – Understanding & analysing the lunar surface (Fielder)
2023 Aug 2
Gilbert Fielder

Eclipse chasers (ed. Nick Lomb & Toner Stevenson)
2023 Apr 2
Ed. Nick Lomb & Toner Stenenson

Solar Surveyors: Observing the Sun from Space
2022 Dec 1
Peter Bond

The sky is for everyone: Women astronomers in their own words
2022 Aug 9
Virginia Trimble & David A. Weintraub (eds.)

Mysteries of the Universe: Answerable & unanswerable questions
2022 Aug 9
Peter Altman

Discovering Mars
2022 Jun 1
William Sheehan & Jim Bell

A shining furrow: the life of Charles T. Whitmell
2022 Apr 6
David Sellers

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Rosetta: The remarkable story of Europe’s comet explorer
2022 Jan 29
Peter Bond

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Neptune: From grand discovery to a world revealed – essays on the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Couch Adams
2021 Nov 30
William Sheehan, Trudy E. Bell, Carolyn Kennett & Robert Smith (Eds.)

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Solar Astronomy: Observing, imaging & studying the Sun
2021 Nov 30
Christian Viladrich (Ed.)

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Planetary Astronomy
2021 Jul 30
Christophe Pellier (Ed.)

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Vera Rubin: A life
2021 May 31
Jacqueline Mitton & Simon Mitton

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What stars are made of: The life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
2021 Mar 28
Donovan Moore

Tycho Brahe and the measure of the heavens
2021 Feb 3
John Robert Christianson

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Yearbook of astronomy 2021
2020 Dec 4
Brian Jones

The Human Cosmos: A secret history of the stars
2020 Oct 1
Jo Marchant

Luna Cognita: A comprehensive observer’s handbook of the known Moon
2020 Oct 1
Robert A. Garfinkle

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Saturn
2020 Jun 4
William Sheehan

DoubleStars
An anthology of visual double stars
2020 Feb 3
Bob Argyle, Mike Swan & Andrew James