Imaging the Southern Sky discusses over 150 of the best southern objects to image, including nebulae, galaxies, and planetaries, each one accompanied by a spectacular colour image. This book also includes sections on both image capturing and processing techniques and so makes an ideal all-in-one introduction.
An excellent reference for both wide-field and telescopic astrophotography of the best targets in the southern sky.
| The NexStar User’s Guide is the first book dedicated to Celestron’s very popular line of NexStar GoTo telescopes. This book caters to the needs of both the beginning and more advanced amateur astronomer. It provides an abundance of background and explanation of how to setup and use a Nexstar go-to telescope and get the most out of the equipment. |
A classic reference source for amateur astronomers before the era of mobile device apps and go-to telescopes. First published in 1910, this is the 15th edition from 1964. Very dated, but interesting to flip through and grasp some of the challenges faced by our astronomy predecessors as they searched the night sky for observing targets. |
Man’s landing on the moon was an enormous technological achievement, but it was only a small step into the vastness of space. This highly readable book invites enterprising amateurs of science to go along on an imaginary continuation of that journey, as successively larger and more venturesome steps are taken—beyond the moon to the sun and planets, to the stars and galaxies, to the outer limits of the known universe and of human knowledge.
The book examines along its route the structure and internal processes of the sun, the planets and their satellites, the comets and asteroids, Alpha Centauri, double and multiple stars, white dwarfs, red giants, neutron stars, novae and supernovae, the Magellanic clouds, the Andromeda nebula, globular clusters, the Seyfert galaxies, galactic explosions, quasars, the interpretation of the red shift as evidence that the universe is expanding, and the curvature of space-time, that finite but unlimited matrix of reality.
On July 20, 1969, near the end of a great decade of near-space exploration, a small craft called Eagle landed on the moon’s surface. As anyone who watched the televised broadcast of the landing might recall, the astronauts aboard Eagle were guided to their objective by a capable ground crew headed by Chris Kraft, whom his colleagues had long called “Flight.” Kraft was unflappable on the surface, but, as he writes in this memoir, the Eagle‘s landing had moments of drama that gave him pause, and that few outside NASA knew about–including baleful alarms from the ship’s on-board computer that warned of imminent disaster. For Kraft, frightening moments were part of his job as director of Mission Control. He encountered many of them in the early years of the space program, when failures were commonplace and all too often caused not by mechanics but by politics. We learn of many in Kraft’s pages. One such failure was the Soviet Union’s Sputnik launch, about which Kraft thunders, “We should have beaten them….” |
A classic book on all things comet by renowned Australian comet hunter, David Seargent.
Learn where comets come from and their chemistry and structure. Also learn about many of the most famous comets of recent centuries