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Product Description: Gerald North's complete practical guide and resource package instructs amateur astronomers in observing and monitoring variable stars and other objects of variable brightness. Descriptions of the objects are accompanied by explanations of the background astrophysics, providing readers with real insight into what they are observing at the telescope...read more
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9780521820479 | Hardcover with CD edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 13, 2004), cover price $94.99 | About this edition: Describes variable stars and other objects of variable brightness and offers advice on finding and observing them, including advice on equipment to use, methods to achieve successful observations, and photometry.
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9781107636125, titled "Observing Variable Stars, Novae and Supernovae" | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 21, 2014, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Gerald North's complete practical guide and resource package instructs amateur astronomers in observing and monitoring variable stars and other objects of variable brightness.
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9780521874076 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 30, 2007), cover price $64.99
9780521622745 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $46.99
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9781107688711 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 31, 2014), cover price $39.99
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9783827430861 | Spektrum Akademischer Verlag Gmbh, September 28, 2012, cover price $29.99
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9780521897518 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 30, 2012, cover price $59.99
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9780875904061 | Amer Geophysical Union, June 30, 2004, cover price $99.00
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9783827413284 | Gardners Books, April 10, 2003, cover price $33.95
Product Description: Astronomy in Depth fills the need for a textbook that covers pre-university level Astronomy courses (in the UK, the GCSE syllabuses) and provides numerical examples to help students. It is also written as a serious foundation in Astronomy for amateurs who want to take a more detailed approach than can be found in the bulk of introductory astronomy books...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781852335809 | 2 edition (Springer Verlag, February 1, 2003), cover price $69.99 | About this edition: Astronomy in Depth fills the need for a textbook that covers pre-university level Astronomy courses (in the UK, the GCSE syllabuses) and provides numerical examples to help students.
Product Description: Since comet Shoemaker-Levy collided with the planet Jupiter with stupendous force in 1994 there has been an upsurge of amateur interest in comets. Most comets are first discovered by amateur astronomers because there are so many amateurs looking for them, and techniques and instruments have improved dramatically in the past few years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781852335571 | Pap/cdr edition (Springer Verlag, January 1, 2003), cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Since comet Shoemaker-Levy collided with the planet Jupiter with stupendous force in 1994 there has been an upsurge of amateur interest in comets.
Product Description: Written by an accomplished amateur astronomer and available for the first time in North America, this advanced guide is designed to take your evening explorations to new heights. Beginning with an explanation of the fundamental principles of practical astronomy, author North provides essential information on telescope optics, the atmosphere, astrophotography, electronic imaging, and telescope hardware (including how to select equipment and diagnose faulty telescopes)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521574075 | Subsequent edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1997), cover price $195.00 | About this edition: Written by an accomplished amateur astronomer and available for the first time in North America, this advanced guide is designed to take your evening explorations to new heights.
9780748602537 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: Packed with information and explanations, this is a guide for the amateur astronomer who wants to increase the pleasure of his/her hobby as well as learn how to make scientific contributions of real and lasting value.
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9780521574303 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1997), cover price $79.99 | About this edition: Written by an accomplished amateur astronomer and available for the first time in North America, this advanced guide is designed to take your evening explorations to new heights.
Product Description: Going beyond the superficial treatments found in "coffee-table" astronomy books, this book provides comprehensive treatment of astronomy in depth, offering comprehensible explanations of how and why things are as they are. Comprehensive in its coverage, the book includes self-study questions at the end: of each chapter...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9783540761365 | Springer Verlag, June 1, 1997, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Going beyond the superficial treatments found in "coffee-table" astronomy books, this book provides comprehensive treatment of astronomy in depth, offering comprehensible explanations of how and why things are as they are.
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9780333456569 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 24, 1988, cover price $29.99
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