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2011 Australian Skyguide
Powerhouse Publishing 2010; US$ 15.95The celestial equivalent of a street directory! Compact, easy to use and reliable, this popular guide contains everything you need to know about the southern night sky with monthly star maps, diagrams and details of all the years exciting celestial events. Wherever you are in Australia, easy calculations allow you to determine when the Sun, Moon... more...
3,000 Deep-Sky Objects
Springer 2011; US$ 35.99This title is a comprehensive set of visual descriptions of deep-sky objects visible from the northern hemisphere. It is a record of the most extensive and systematic visual survey of the sky ever done in modern times. 3,000 deep-sky objects are listed with short descriptions of the visual appearance in the author's powerful binocular telescope.... more...
The Caldwell Objects and How to Observe Them
Springer 2009; US$ 27.99The Messier's catalog of 109 'non-stellar' objects is still used by amateur astronomers as a guide to interesting objects to view and image. In 1995, the notable English astronomer and broadcaster Sir Patrick Moore published his own catalog of a further 109 objects, to complement the Messier catalog and provide an extended list of fascinating... more...
Cataclysmic Cosmic Events and How to Observe Them
Springer 2009; US$ 27.99Deals with observing dramatic and often bizarre cosmic events. This title explains what these events are, what we know of their physics, and how amateur astronomers can observe them. more...
Celestial Delights
Springer 2011; US$ 35.99Celestial Delights is essentially a 'TV Guide' for teh sky. This will be its third edition. This title, which has aggregated sales of about 20,000 copies to date in its two previous editions and has found a niche with skygazers, is much awaited. Through extensive graphics integrated with an eight-year-long calendar of sky events, it provides... more...
DK Eyewitness Books: Mars
Dorling Kindersley 2004; US$ 15.99Learn all about Earth's closest neighbor in this unprecedented guide to the red planet. Including up-to-the-minute data from NASA''s ongoing explorations, this amazing resource tells the whole story from Mars'' mystical significance in early cultures to the ambitious future plans for manned-flight explorations. Featuring beautiful full-color photography,... more...
The Data Book of Astronomy
CRC Press 2000; US$ 83.95This text offers descriptions and checked facts about the planets, stars, galaxies, clusters, and nebulae, and information on how to make observations. A feature of the book is the extended coverage, with maps, of all the constellations that can be seen from the northern and southern hemispheres. more...
Deep-Sky Companions
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 41.00An original selection of 109 deep-sky objects for observers worldwide. more...
Faint Objects and How to Observe Them
Springer 2012; US$ 27.99Faint Objects and How to Observe Them is for visual observers who are equipped with a 10-inch or larger astronomical telescope and who want to "go deep" with their observing. It provides a guide to some of the most distant, dim, and rarely observed objects in the sky, supported by background information on surveys and objects lists - some... more...
A Field Guide to Deep-Sky Objects
Springer 2011; US$ 31.99This star guide enables amateur astronomers to focus on a class of object, and using an observation list that begins with the easiest object, find and move progressively over a period of months to more difficult targets. Includes detailed descriptive summaries of each class of object. Amateur astronomers of all levels will find this book invaluable... more...









