First published in 1999, this much expanded and updated edition of the best-selling handbook Astrophotography for the Amateur provides a complete guide to takin

First published in 1999, this is an expanded and updated edition of the best-selling, standard handbook on astrophotography for amateurs.

This book, first published in 1997, is for telescope owners wanting to improve their skills and make observations of real and lasting scientific value.

How do you choose your first telescope? Or build one from first principles? What can the deep sky offer you season-by-season? How do you get started in astropho

Concise, highly readable book discusses the selection, set-up, and maintenance of a telescope; amateur studies of the sun; lunar topography and occultations; an