Shanklin j a (3 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. Publisher's original brown printed wrappers, 12mo (7 inches in height x nearly 5 inches in width), pp. 36. A bit of a frail affair, with wrappers beginning to separate at spine ends and a short tear at mid fore-edge of rear wrapper that advances into the final two leaves, with no loss. Please see image for our best attempt at a close-up. Safely stowed now in a clear protective display sleeve with white card-stock backing board. Author had been Rector of Christ Church in Macon, GA.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st. 1st printing; blue wraps w/small closed tear, owner's initials; 36 clean, unmarked pages.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. viii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9783540198994, 9780387198996, 3540198997, 0387198997 ; OCLC 32821150 ; LCCN 95032988 ; LOC No QB63 .O27 1995 ; Dewey 520 ; stiff paper wrappers ; Patrick Moore has pulled together a group of professional and amateur astronomers, each an expert in a particular field, to describe how to observe every category of object that is within reach of an astronomical telescope of modest size. ; Contents: The sun in white light / Bruce Hardie -- The sun in hydrogen-alpha / Bob Turner -- Eclipses / Michael Maunder -- The moon / Jeremy Cook -- Mercury and Venus / Richard M. Baum --Mars / Patrick Moore --Jupiter / Terry Moseley --Saturn / A.W. Heath --The asteroids and telescopic planets / Andrew J. Hollis --Meteors / Neil Bone --Comets / Jonathan Shanklin --Occultations / Alan Wells --Auroræ and noctilucent clouds / David Gavine --Variable stars / Melvyn D. Taylor --Supernovæ / R.W. Arbour --Deep sky observing / Bernard C. Abrams --Artificial satellites / Howard Miles --Annotated drawings / Paul Doherty . Book.…