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The Moon and How to Observe Itby Peter Grego
Springer 2005; US$ 39.95Intended for amateur astronomers. This book deals with the Moon itself - its formation, geology, and history - as well as the practical aspects of observation. It presents a description of the Moon's origin, history and geology; and considers how best to observe and record it with telescopes. more...
Observing the Moonby Gerald North
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 40.00A 'hands-on' primer for the aspiring observer of the Moon, written by an experienced and well-known lunar observer. more...
Exploring the Moonby David M. Harland
Springer 2008; US$ 39.95David Harland opens with a review of the robotic probes, namely the Rangers which returned television before crashing into the Moon, the Surveyors which 'soft landed' in order to investigate the nature of the surface, and the Lunar Orbiters which mapped prospective Apollo landing sites. He then outlines the historic landing by Apollo 11 in terms of what was discovered, and how over the next several missions the program was progressively geared up to enable the final three missions each to spend three days on comprehensive geological investigations. He concludes with a review of the robotic spacecraft that made remote-sensing observations of the Moon. Although aimed at the enthusiast, and can be read as an adventure in exploration, the... more...
The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Beby Dana Mackenzie
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 33.95The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon's genesis This lively science history relates one of the great recent breakthroughs in planetary astronomy-a successful theory of the birth of the Moon. Science journalist Dana Mackenzie traces the evolution of this theory, one little known outside the scientific community: a Mars-sized object collided with Earth some four billion years ago, and the remains of this colossal explosion-the Big Splat-came together to form the Moon. Beginning with notions of the Moon in ancient cosmologies, Mackenzie relates the fascinating history of lunar speculation, moving from Galileo and Kepler to George Darwin (son of Charles) and the Apollo astronauts, whose trips to the lunar surface... more...
The Sun and the Moonby Matthew Goodman
Basic Books 2008; US$ 15.00On August 26, 1835, a fledgling newspaper called the Sun brought to New York the first accounts of remarkable lunar discoveries. A series of six articles reported the existence of life on the moonincluding unicorns, beavers that walked on their hind legs, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats. In a matter of weeks it was the most broadly circulated newspaper story of the era, and the Sun , a working-class upstart, became the most widely read paper in the world. An exhilarating narrative history of a divided city on the cusp of greatness, and tale of a crew of writers, editors, and charlatans who stumbled on a new kind of journalism, The Sun and the Moon tells the surprisingly true story of the penny papers that made America a nation... more...
Las lunas (Moons)by William B. Rice
Shell Education 2011; US$ 8.99There is a bright light in the sky. Sometimes it is round like a ball, and other times it is a crescent. Sometimes it is not there at all! What is this strange and changing thing? It is the moon, of course! Read all about it in this book. 32 pages more...
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