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The following books are highly
recommended, and served as a major source of
material:
Ahrens, Donald C. Meteorology
Today, Seventh Edition. Thomson, Brooks/Cole,
Australia. 2003.
Bakich, Michael. The Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Amateur Astronomy. Cambridge
University Press, 2003.
Beatty, J. Kelly, Carolyn C.
Petersen and Andrew Chaikin. The New Solar
System. Fourth Edition. Sky Publishing
Corporation. Massachusetts, 1999.
Belkora, Leila. Minding the
Heavens. Institute of Physics Publishing,
Bristol. 2003.
Burnham, Robert.
Burnham’s Celestial Handbook. Volume One - Three.
Dover Publications, New York. 1978.
Covington, Michael A.
Astrophotography for the Amateur - Second Edition.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK. 1999.
Dickinson, Terence and Alan Dyer.
The Backyard Astronomer's Guide. Revised Edition.
Firefly Books. New York, 2002.
Freedman, Roger and William Kaufman.
Universe. 6th Edition. W.H. Freeman and
Company. New York, 2002. Note: Now available in a
7th Edition - 2005, also used as a reference.
Hawking, Stephen. The Universe in a Nutshell.
New York: Bantam Books, November 2001.
Heritage, Andrew Ed. World
Reference Atlas. Dorling Kindersley Limited, New
York, 2004.
Hester, Jeff, David Burstein, George
Blumenthal, Ronald Greeley, Bradford Smith, Howard
Voss and Gary Wegner. 21st Century Astronomy.
W.W. Norton and Company. New York, 2002.
Howell, Steve B. Handbook of CCD Astronomy.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 2000.
Kutner, Marc L. Astronomy: A
Physical Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2003.
Mayor, Michel and Pierre-Yves Frei. New Worlds in
the Cosmos. Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, UK. 2003.
Meeus, Jean. More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels.
Willmann-Bell, Inc. Richmond, Virginia. 2002.
Moore, Sir Patrick. Atlas of the Universe.
Firefly Books. New York, 2003.
Sparke, Linda and John Gallagher. Galaxies in the
Universe. An Introduction. Cambridge University
Press, 2000.
O’Meara, James. The Messier Objects.
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Ostlie, Dale A., and Bradley W. Carroll. Modern
Stellar Astrophysics. Massachusetts:
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1996.
Tonkin, Stephen F. Practical Amateur
Spectroscopy. Springer, London. 2002.
Wodaski, Ron. The New CCD Astronomy. New
Astronomy Press, Duvall, WA. 2002.
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