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Galactic Encounters might be more correctly subtitled ‘a history of our exploration of the galaxies’, for it tells the story

Accurately cut and polished thin sections of rocks viewed through the microscope under polarised light show a kaleidoscopic range of

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