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The Stargazers’ Almanac is published annually and provides invaluable information about what can be seen in the northern and southern

Johannes Kepler (1571−1630), discoverer of the elliptical nature of planetary orbits and much else besides, has long been the subject

Drawing solar features at the telescope has a noble history extending back to Galileo. It remains a valuable activity even

The Stargazers’ Almanac for 2016 is a wall calendar for astronomers whose main feature is a series of monthly charts

Robin Scagell will need little introduction for readers of this Journal. A long-serving Vice President of the Society for Popular

This book has a tone that reminded me of the ‘war books’ and escape stories of my youth, but with

In 1892 that great French populariser of astronomy, Camille Flammarion, published a complete summary of the current knowledge of the

Authors Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest will need little introduction to readers of this Journal. Both have written scores of

The first volume of Martin Mobberley’s life of Patrick Moore, It Came From Outer Space Wearing an RAF Blazer! (2013)

In the first decade of the twentieth century, the nature of our Milky Way galaxy became clearer. Numerous observers pioneered