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The Six-Inch Lunar Atlas: A Pocket Field Guide (Repost)

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The Six-Inch Lunar Atlas: A Pocket Field Guide (Repost)

The Six-Inch Lunar Atlas: A Pocket Field Guide by Don Spain
English | PDF | 2009 | 269 Pages | ISBN : 038787609X | 45.2 MB

Here is a lunar atlas designed specifically for use in the field by lunar observers. Its title – The Six-inch Lunar Atlas – refers both to the aperture of the telescope used to make the images in the book, and also to the book’s physical size: so it’s perfect for fitting into an observer’s pocket!

The Practical Astronomer’s Deep-sky Companion

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The Practical Astronomer’s Deep-sky Companion

Spies in the Sky: Surveillance Satellites in War and Peace by Jess K. Gilmour
English | PDF (True)| 2003 | 157 Pages | ISBN : 1852334746 | 37.7 MB

As an amateur astronomer with years of experience, I marvel at the joy experienced by a beginner who successfully hunts down their first deep-space object in a telescope. No matter what age or skill level, "nailing" a previously unobserved object through the eye­ piece, both instantly defines their love of the hobby and gives a feeling of scientific accomplishment no matter how well known to others the object may be. With the advancement in computer-guided telescopes and automatic object center­ ing, the amateur astronomy hobby has experienced tremendous and unprecedented growth. First timers are attending public observing sessions or summer star parties with low-cost computer-controlled telescopes, and are instantly rewarded with views of celes­ tial objects with strange names and numbers. But: what to look at?

African Cultural Astronomy: Current Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy research in Africa

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African Cultural Astronomy: Current Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy research in Africa

African Cultural Astronomy: Current Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy research in Africa by Jarita C. Holbrook
English | PDF(True) | 2008 | 257 Pages | ISBN : 1402066384 | 45.7 MB

Astronomy is the science of studying the sky using telescopes and light collectors such as photographic plates or CCD detectors. However, people have always studied the sky and continue to study the sky without the aid of instruments this is the realm of cultural astronomy. This is the first scholarly collection of articles focused on the cultural astronomy of Africans.