In The Library
All of these (and more) are available from the club library.
A spectacular large format book with overlays. This book can help you get
your eye in for constellations and inspire you to get your own widefield images
of the night sky.
A
great book to help you set up a long term project on Moon observations.
You can learn how to draw the Moon as well as photographing it.
Astronomy
has been going on for thousands of years but we have only had telescopes for
about four hundred of them. Read about the fascinating history of
astronomical images made by ancient cultures.
Famed
Comet hunter David Levy produces an exciting guide to Astronomy.
Where amateur astronomy books finish, this book takes over. If you're
not sure if you want to become a professional astrophysics or not, read through
this tome. It's written in an easy style but goes into things in depth,
including the maths.
As
you get into advanced imaging and want to get every last bit of information out
of your data, you'll need to know how image processing works. Lots
of maths and a program that does advanced things. Use your own
images (converted to FITS) or practice with the ones on the disk.
A fascinating journey into the past and the distant future, the Five Ages of the Universe makes you look at the Universe from a different perspective. For example we probably don't live in the age of life. Sun-sized stars may only harbour life for a few billion years before they heat up and destroy the life they helped to create. Red dwarfs on the other hand will eventually enter a period of stability that will last thousands of billions of years. And there are vastly more red dwarfs than there are Sun-sized stars. So life may be rare now but it should be plentiful in the distant future.
Some books are difficult to put down and you may find that this is one of those. It follows the story of an oxygen atom. But what a journey. Krauss has a beautiful style which combines elegance and chat in a way that carries you along. All sorts of things pop up along the way. Krauss is particularly fond of literature an ancient writings and these add an extra dimension to the book. For those of you doing GCSE and A level sciences it will be an entertaining way to revise many aspects of the course and put them in a wider context without actually feeling you're doing any work!
A delightful little book that takes you through the development of the tubes we are so fond of. Particularly for those who like history; you will find out about many things other than telescopes.
Lots
of up-to-date information about solar physics. Not a book for a
beginner to read from front to back perhaps, but a very useful reference for
everyone interested in the science of the Sun.