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In the last four decades amateur astronomers have been blessed with a series of excellent sky atlases, many based on

The authors of this book are two American astronomers, Leon Golub, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics

Surely no other objects in the night sky can generate as much interest as a Great Comet? The phrase goes

Initially I was curious about exactly what the third cycle in the title of this book referred to. It soon

Dr Dominic Ford is the BAA’s website manager and also runs in-the-sky.org, a website which provides charts showing the positions

Most people will be aware of Ian Morison through his involvement as a radio astronomer at Jodrell Bank and with

Solar System Maps is a very thorough description of our developing knowledge of the solar system from antiquity to the

Writing any technical book about modern amateur astronomy is a daunting challenge. With so much information online, and a veritable

Dr Kate Russo is a clinical psychologist by training and profession and an ‘eclipse chaser’ by emotional inclination. This book

This attractive little booklet, small enough to slip into a pocket or rucsac, is well described on its cover: ‘A