Popular Posts

• Star Ware: The Amateur Astronomer’s Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Buying, and Using Telescopes and Accessories, 2nd Edition

  Praise for the First Edition of Star Ware . . . “A complete, current review of the material needed by backyard astronomers . . . Related posts Mars (Space Science Series) Starlight: An Introduction to Stellar Physics for Amateurs (Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series) Foundations of Astronomy Atlas of the Messier Objects: Highlights of the [...]

• Lunar Exploration: Human Pioneers and Robotic Surveyors (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)

  Paolo Ulivi provides a well-paced, rapidly moving, balanced, even-handed account of lunar exploration as a popular history. He covers the unmanned programmes, e.g. Ranger, and other American probes in the late ’50s and in the later chapters he looks at recent lunar exploration and future plans for the same. It’s a book that will be [...]

• The Sun and Space Weather

  What are the terrestrial effects of solar activity and the solar activity cycle? The modern term used for solar terrestrial relations is `Space Weather’. This term describes all external effects on the space environment of the Earth and the Earth’s atmosphere. The main driver for space weather is our Sun. Explosive events on the Sun [...]

• Night Sky Star Wheel

  Have you ever looked up in the sky and wondered exactly what it is you’re seeing? If so, the Night Sky Star Wheel is what you need! Designed specifically for beginners and stargazers living in light polluted areas, this ingenious star wheel shows only the brightest stars and minimizes distortion, making it a snap to [...]

• A Quick Astronomical Telescopes Buying Guide

  Do you want to buy astronomical telescopes, but dont want to go through a 300 page book to discover how to buy a telescope? In this article, you will find out very quick how to buy astronomical telescopes. You can then find how to get a telescope within the next 72 hours! The countdown has [...]