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Instruments and techniques |
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| Covington C | Astrophotography for the Amateur | 1991 | Film |
| Groit M | Optics Guide 4 | 1988 | Catalogue |
| Kitchin C | Telescopes and techniques | 2003 | Springer. Reviewed by RC |
| Mollise R | Choosing and using a Schmidt-Cassegrain T’scope | 2001 | |
| Moore P (Ed) | More small astronomical observatories | 2002 | Reviewed by RC includes cd of earlier book |
| Muirden J | Beginner’s guide to Astronomical Telescope making | 1978 | |
| Ratledge D | The art and science of CCD astronomy | 1997 | 2 Copies |
| Various | Box of data on Hewitt camera techniques | 1960 | |
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Solar Observing | | | |
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| Nicholson I | The Sun | 1982 | |
| Spence P | Sun Observer’s guide | 2004 | Phillips. Reviewed by RW |
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Historical | | | |
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| Dreyer J, Turner H | History of thr RAS. Vol 1 1820-1920 | 1987 | |
| Dunlop s, Gerbaldi M | Stargazers. The contribution of amateurs to astronomy | 1988 | |
| Gould R | John Harrison and his timekeepers | 1985 | 24pp Reprint |
| Littman M | The Heavens on Fire | 1999 | Leonids 1833 |
| Lockyer W | The Norman Lockyer Observatory Handbook | 1935 | |
| McClure J | Syllabus of course of 12 asronomy lectures | 1887 | Reprint |
| NMM Greenwich | The Planispheric Astrolabe | 1976 | |
| Olson R, Pasachoff J | Fire in the Sky, Comets and meteors | 1998 | In art and science |
| Overbye D | Lonely Hearts of the cosmos | 1991 | Historical cosmology |
| Szoerkowicz J | Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1973 | 1972 | Slim volume |
| Tayler R | History of thr RAS. Vol 2 1920-1980 | 1987 | |
| Verschuur G | The Invisble Universe revealed | 1987 | The story of radio astronomy |
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The Moon | | | |
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| Vatious | Phil Trans RS Series A 285 | 1977 | Devoted to the moon |
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General Astronomy | | |
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| Begelman M | Turn Right at Orion. Travels through the cosmos | 2000 | Not the constellation guide |
| Berthier D | Urban Astronomy | 2003 | Reviewed by RC |
| Dunkin E | The Midnight Sky | 1890 | |
| Dunlop S, Tirion W | Collins: How to identify the night sky | 2002 | |
| Edberg S | Research Amateur Astronomy | 1991 | Reviewed by RC |
| Hamlyn P | Stars – a guide to astronomy | 1965 | |
| Jones B | The Practical Astronomer | 1990 | |
| Kolb R | Blind Watchers of the Sky | 1999 | Not literaly (quote from Tycho Brahe) |
| Martinez P | The Observer’s Guide to Astronomy | 1994 | Vol 1 |
| Mayer B | Starwatch | 1984 | Basic constellation guide pulished by Celestron |
| Moore P | The Observer’s Year | 1998 | |
| Moore P | Philips Guide to the Stars and Planets | 1993 | |
| Moore P | Philips Guide to the Stars and Planets | 2004 | Reviewed by SB |
| Moore P | Patrick Moore’s Armchair Astronomy | 1984 | |
| Moore P, Watson J | Astronomy with a budget telescope | 2003 | Reviewed by AB |
| Muirden P, Oenston M | The Canopus Encyclopedia of Astronomy | 2004 | |
| Odenwald S | The Astonomy Café 365 Q and A from “Ask the Astronomer” | | |
| Ottewell G | The Astronomical Companion | 1981 | Large format paperback |
| Pasachoff, Kutner | University Astronomy | 1978 | |
| Peltier L | Starlight Nights | 1967 | |
| Price P | The Complete and Easy Guide to Stargazing | 2005 | Reviewed by RW |
| Ridpath I | Stars and Planets : Eyewitness Handbooks | 1998 | |
| Scagell R | Stargazing with a telsecope | 2009 | Philips. Reviewd by RC |
| Sruve O | Elementary Astronomy | 1959 | |
| Urarov F, Chapman D | A dictionary of science | 1959 | Slim paperback, International Lunar Society |
| Waxman J | A Workbook for Astronomy | 1984 | |
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Mathematical | | | |
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| Duffett-Smith P | Astronomy with your personal computer | 1985 | ist edition Note date |
| HMNAO | The Nautical Almanac 2010 | 2008 | |
| HMSO | Explanatory Supplement to A Ephemeris | 1961 | |
| Kunitsyn V, Tereshvhenko | Ionospheric Tomography | 2003 | |
| Meeus J | Astronomical Formulae for Calculators | 1980 | The defininative guide |
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Stars | | | |
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| Carrol B, Ostlie D | An introduction to modern astrophysics | 1996 | Highly mathematical |
| Emerson D | Interpreting Astronomical Spectra | 1996 | Highly mathematical |
| Habing H, Olofsson H | Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars | 2004 | |
| Hall D, Genet R | Photelectric photometry of variable stars | 1982 | IAPP |
| Harwit M | Astrophysical Concepts | 1982 | |
| Kaler J | Stars and their Spectra | 1989 | Introduction |
| Kaler J | Stars and their Spectra | 1990 | Introduction |
| Lena P | Observational Astrophysics | 1988 | |
| Mann A | Shadow of a Star | 1997 | The neutrino story of SN 1987A |
| NASA | Star formation in Galaxies | 1986 | Heavyweight conference publication |
| White R | Observational Astrophysics | 1992 | |
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Galaxies & Deep Sky | |
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| Archinal B | The Nonexistent star clusters of the RNGC | 1993 | The Webb Society |
| Bone N | Philips Deep Sky Observers Guide | 2004 | Reviewed by KA |
| Coe S | Deep sky Oserving, The Astronomical Tourist | 2000 | |
| Malin D, Muirdin P | Colours of Galaxies | 1984 | |
| Mallas J, Kreimer E | The Messier Album | 1978 | Reprinted from Sky & Telescope |
| O’Meara S | The Caldwell Objects | 2002 | |
| Petschek A | Supernova | 1990 | |
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| Comets | | | |
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| Crovisier J, Encrenaz T | Comet Science | 2000 | |
| Sagan C, Druyan A | Comet | 1984 | Halley |
| Shanklin J | BAA Observing guide to comets | 1996 | |
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Eclipses | | | |
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| Balearic Is Government | Total Eclipse of the Sun Mallorca 1905 | 2005 | Multiple research papers |
| Brunier S, Luminet J-P | Glorious Eclipses | 2000 | Coffee table book |
| Espenak F | Fifty Year Canon of Lunar Eclipses 1986-2035 | 1989 | NASA |
| Espenak F | Fifty Year Canon of Solar Eclipses 1986-2035 | 1987 | NASA Two copies |
| Espenak F, Anderson J | Total Solar Eclipse of 3 November 1994 | 1993 | |
| Espenak F, Anderson J | Total Solar Eclipse of 24 October 1995 | 1994 | 2 copies |
| Espenak F, Anderson J | Total Solar Eclipse of 9 March 1997 | 1995 | |
| Espenak F, Anderson J | Total Solar Eclipse of 26 Feb 1998 | 1996 | |
| M Littman,K Willcox, F Espenak | Totality, Eclipses of the Sun | 1998 | Reviewed by RC |
| M Littman,K Willcox, F Espenak | Totality, Eclipses of the Sun | 1999 | Second copy |
| Williams S | UK Solar eclipses from year 1 | 1996 | |
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Planets | | | |
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| Gehrels T | Asteroids | 1979 | |
| Gehrels T | Jupiter | 1976 | |
| Kowal C | Asteroids. Their nature and utilization | 1996 | |
| McNab D, Younger J | The Planets | 1999 | BBC book of the series |
| Moore P | Guide to Mars | 1965 | |
| New Scientist | New science in the solar system | 1973 | |
| Price F | The Planet Observers Handbook | 2000 | |
| Roberts J | Radio Emission from the planets | 1963 | |
| Rukl A | Moon, Mars and Venus. O concise guide in colour | 1976 | |
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Atlases | | | |
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| Briggs G, Taylor F | The Cambridge Photographic Atlas of the planets | 1982 | |
| Brown | Brown’s Star Atlas for Navigational Astronomy | 1969 | Two copies |
| Dunlop S | Atlas of the night sky | 2005 | Excellent, constellation by constellation |
| ESA | Millenium Star Atlas | 1997 | As Vol 14-16 of Hip and Tycho catalogue |
| Lewis H | The Times Atlas of the Moon | 1969 | |
| Mellinger A, Stoyan R | The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas | 2011 | Large format |
| Moore P et al | The Atlas of the Universe | | |
| Moore P, Hunt G | The Atlas of the Solar System | 1988 | |
| Newton J, Teece P | The Cambridge Deep Sky Album | 1983 | |
| Norton A | Norton’s Star Atlas and reference handbook | 1959 | 14th edition |
| Norton A | Norton’s Star Atlas and reference handbook | 1990 | 17th edition signed by G Satterthwaite |
| Papadopoulos | True Visual Mag Photographic star atlas | 1979 | Vol2 Equatorial stars |
| Papadopoulos | True Visual Mag Photographic star atlas | 1980 | Vol3 Northern stars. Note large and heavy |
| Philips | Star Chart Epoch 2000 | 1990 | Printed on plastic |
| Sandage A | The Hubble Atlas of galaxies | 1961 | Not HST! |
| Sandage A,Bedke J | The Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies | 1994 | I n two large volumes |
| SAO | SAO Star Atlas | 1950 | Epoch |
| Tirion, Rappaport, Lovi | Uranometria 2000.0 | 1988 | In two volumes |
| Vehrenberg H | Atlas Stellarum 1950.0 | 1970 | Photographic star atlas 2 Vols Large |
| Vehrenberg H | Atlas of Deep Sky Splendors | 1988 | Photographic |
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| Star Catalogues | | | |
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| ESA | The Hipparcos and Tycho catalogues | 1997 | Vol 1-13 catalogues |
| Moscow Acad of Sciences | General Catalogue of variable Stars Vols 1-4 | 1985 | Vol 4 duplicated |
| Moscow Acad of Sciences | New catlogue of suspected variable stars | 1982 | |
| Nautical Almanac Office | Catalog of 3539 Zodiacal Stars for the equinox 1950.0 | 1984 | |
| SAO | SAO Star catalogue | 1966 | In four volumes |
| Sinnott R | NGC 2000.0 | 1988 | |
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Space Technology | | |
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| Bond P | The continuing story of the International Space Station | 2002 | |
| Booth N | Encyclopedia of Space | 1990 | |
| Fischer D, Duerbeck H | Hubble Anew window on the universe | 1995 | Picture book |
| Harvey B | The Chinese Space Programme | 1998 | |
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| Other | | | |
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| Calder N | The weather machine and the threat of ice | 1974 | |
| Daniel C | The Sundial register | 1996 | The British sundial society |
| Mizon B | Light Pollution Resonses ans Remedies | 2002 | |
| Moore G | Mrs Moore in Space | 2002 | Art work |
| Watts A | Weatherforcasting – ashore and afloat | 1967 | |
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Cosmology | | | |
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| Borner G | The Early Universe. Facts and Fiction | 2003 | |
| Hoyle F | The Intelligent Universe | 1983 | |
| Ridley B | Time, space and things | 1984 | |
| Sagan C | Cosmos | 1980 | |
| Tyson N, Liu C, Irion R | The Universe At home in the cosmos | 2000 | |
| Webb S | Measuring the Universe | 1999 | The cosmological distance ladder |
