Media: hardcover (original edition), 318 pages
Author: Patrick Moore
Year: 1952

Rare copy of the first edition of this classic handbook by legendary astronomer Patrick Moore (listed by other resellers at hundreds of dollars)

CONTENTS

Foreword

Acknowledgements

ASTRONOMY AS A HOBBY

THE UNFOLDING UNIVERSE

TELESCOPES AND OBSERVATORIES

THE SOLAR SYSTEM

THE SUN

THE MOON

OCCULTATIONS AND ECLIPSES

AURORA AND THE ZODIACAL LIGHT

THE NEARER PLANETS

THE OUTER PLANETS

COMETS AND METEORS

THE STELLAR HEAVENS

THE NATURE OF A STAR

DOUBLE STARS

VARIABLE STARS

STAR-CLUSTERS AND NEBULA

THE GALAXIES OF SPACE

BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS

Appendices

• Planetary Data
• Satellite Data
• Minor Planet Data
• Elongations of the Inferior Planets, 1957-67
• Oppositions of Planets, 1957-67
• Map of Mars
• Jupiter: Transit Work
• Saturn: Intensity Estimates
• Forthcoming Eclipses
• Transits of the Inferior Planets
• The Limiting Lunar Detail visible with Different Apertures
• The Lunar Maps
• Some of the More Important Periodic Comets
• Some of the More Important Annual Meteor Showers
• The Greek Alphabet
• The Constellations
• Proper Names of Stars
• Stars of the “First Magnitude”
• Standard Stars for Each Magnitude
• Stellar Spectra
• Limiting Magnitudes and Separations for
• Various Apertures
• Angular Measure
• Test Double Stars
• Extinction
• Naked-eye Novae
• Messier’s Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters
• The Star Maps
• Astronomical Societies
• Bibliography

Index