Amateur astronomy, with its image as a cold, dark and damp passtime has generally attracted only the most hardy enthusiasts! This is set to change. In recent years technology has advanced so much that amateur astronomers are now able to achieve what professionals were doing at the end of the 1960s.
The New Amateur Astronomer (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series)
โ Scribed by Martin Mobberley
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 122
- Series
- Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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