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The Stargazers’ Almanac 2015

The Stargazers’ Almanac for 2015 is a month-by-month guide to the night sky. It is produced by Bob Mizon, well

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Introducing the planets and their moons

On receiving this book to review, my instant thought as I unpacked it was that it was a book for

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William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse: Astronomy and the castle in nineteenth-century Ireland

William Parsons, Third Earl of Rosse (1800−1867) is best known to astronomers as the builder of a 72-inch reflector with

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The dark skies of the North Pennines: An amateur photographer’s delight

If you are an enthusiastic astro-imager, particularly one with an excellent dark sky site, you will soon accumulate a collection

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Statistics, data mining and machine learning in astronomy

Professional astronomy projects generate huge amounts of data which are analysed for each particular project’s needs but are quite likely

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Space has no frontier

The author is a successful barrister, actor and public speaker who lives down the road from Jodrell Bank, which is

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From dust to life − the origin and evolution of our solar system

The origin of the solar system is amongst the great questions in astronomy, particularly as proto-planetary disks and planets have

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Comets! – visitors from deep space

This book explains how our understanding of what comets are and where they fit in the Solar System has developed

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Encyclopedia of the history of astronomy and astrophysics

This very large, impressive volume covers the entire history of astronomy from pre-history to the present day, including a brief

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How to observe the Sun safely

This is a revised edition of Lee’s original 2002 publication How to observe the Sun safely. The second edition brings

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