Library

If you’re a current member of the society and would like to borrow from the library, then please contact our Librarian. Books will normally be collected and returned by the member at one of our regular monthly meetings.

Title Author
1001 Celestial Wonders to See Before You Die  M E Bakich
25 Observations that Changed the World  M Marett-Crosby
3000 Deep Sky Objects  T Aranda
A Brief History of Time  S Hawking
A field Guide to Deep Sky Objects  M Inglis
A Guide to the Cosmos  Brain C & Forshaw
Amateur Astronomer  Rukl
Amateur Telescope Making in the Internet Age  Robert L Clark
Artificial Satellites and How to Observe Them  R Schmunde Jr.
Asteroids and Dwarf Planets and How to Observe  Roger Dymok
Astro FAQs Questions Amateur Astronomers Ask  S T Tonkin
Astro-Imaging Projects for Amateur Astronomers  Jim Chung
Astronomical Spectrography for Amateurs  Ken Harrison
Astronomy  – DK  Ian Ridrath
Astronomy 365 days  J Bennell
Astronomy with a budget scope  Moore
Astronomy Without a telescope P Moore
Astrophotography for the Amateur   M Covington
Astrophotography on the Go  Ashley
Astrophysics is Easy  Ingles
Atlas of the universe –Philips. 2004  Moore
Blazing a Ghostly Trail ISON and Great Comets   Peter Grego
Brilliant stars  Moore
Building a Roll-Off Roof Observatory  J Hicks
Burnham’s Celestial Handbook  Vol. 1  Burnham
Burnham’s Celestial Handbook  Vol. 2  Burnham
Burnham’s Celestial Handbook  Vol. 3  Burnham
Care of Astro.  Telescopes and Accessories  M B Pepin
Carrington C. R Life and times – booklet  N Keer
Celestial Messengers  Cosmic Rays.  M Bertolotti
Choosing and Using a Dobsonian Telescope  N English
Choosing and Using a Refracting Telescope  Neil English
Choosing and Using Astronomical Eyepieces  W Paolini
Choosing and Using Astronomical Filters  M Griffiths
Classic Telescopes  A Guide to Collecting  Restoring and Using Telescopes of Yesteryear  Neil English
Comet Science  Crovisier
Comets and How To Observe Them  Richard Schmude
Complete CD Atlas of the Universe  Richard Harshaw
Concise Catalogue of Deep-sky Objects  WH Finley
Conversations with  Carl Sagan  Carl Sagan
Cycles of Time  R Penrose
Dark Nebulae Dark Lanes and Dust Belts  Anthony Cooke
Deep sky wonders  O’Meara
Distant Wanderers  Dorminey
Eclipse:  11th August 1999 The Guide  P Macdonald
Eclipsing Binaries Spreadsheet  S Woodbridge
Einstein’s miraculous year Stachel
Electronic Imaging in Astronomy  McLean
Exploring and Understanding Exoplanets  Chris Kitchin
Exploring Mercury  The Iron Planet  R Strom
FAS Journal No1. 1976 (pamphlet) & PDF file.   fas
First Light and Beyond  D A Jenkins
Geologic Map of the near side of the Moon  Wilhelms
Grating Spectroscopes and How To Use Them  Ken Harrison
Guide to 1999 Total Eclipse  Bell
Guide to the Nights Sky  David Levy
Help with the Puzzles and Pitfalls of Astronomy  Steve Ringwood
Home is where the wind blows  Fred Hoyle
How to Observe The Sun Safely  Lee Macdonald
Hubble – Mirror on the Universe  R Kerrod
Hubble – Window on the Universe  G Sparrow
Hubble’s Universe  Goodwin
Illustrated Dictionary of Practical Astronomy  Chris Kitchen
Imaging the Southern Sky  Cooper
Incoming Asteroid  What Could We Do About It  D Lucan
Infinity Rising  Szymanek
Introduction to cosmology – A  level  Roos
Light Pollution – Responses & Remedies  Bob Mizon
Maps of the Heavens  Snyder
MARS – The inside story of the Red Planet  H Couper
Mathematical Astronomy  Beet
Moore’s Observer’s: 366 Nights of the Universe  Mike Inglis
More small Observatories. c/w CD  Moore
Myths  Symbols and legends of the Solar System   R Alexander
NASA – JPL Manuals (CD) Passage to a ringed world (Cassini). Radio Astronomy &. Galileo    Various
New Atlas of the Universe  P Moore
Northern Lights in Iceland  Andresson
Norton’s Star Atlas – 2000.0   18th Ed. (2)  Ian Ridpath
Observational Approach  to Cosmology  Hubble
Observer’s Guide to Stellar Evolution  Mike Ingals
Observers Guide to the Northern Sky  Mike Ingals
Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars  R Argyle
Observing Caldwell Objects  Ratledge
Observing Comets. With CD  Nick James 
Observing the Moon  John Folkes
Observing Variable Stars.  Gerry A Good
Observing Visual Double Stars c/w CD  Bob Argyle
One Shot Colour Astronomical Imaging  L A Kennedy
One small step  jerry
Orrery  A story of Mechanical Solar Systems  T Buick 
Our cosmic Habitat  M Rees
Patrick Moore on the Moon  Moore
Philips – Guide to the Night Sky  Moore
Philips – Moon Map  Moore
Philips – Star Charts:  Epoch 2000 (2)  Moore
Philips – Star finder  Moore
Philips Moon Observers Guide  Grego
Philips Planisphere  10 inch. Northern sky  Philips
Philips Planisphere  10 inch. Southern Sky  Philips
Phillips – Astronomy from towns & suburbs  Robinson
Photographic Star Atlas   Mellinger
Planetary Nebulae and How to Observe Them  M Griffiths
Polar Alignment:  One star Method brochure  FAS member
Practical Amateur Spectroscopy  Stephen Tonkin
Saturn and How to Observe It  J L Beneton Jr.
Schrodingers kittens  J Gribbin
Secrets of the Night sky  Berman
Sky at Night Episode guide: Apl. 57 to Mar 2011  BBC
So You Want a Meade LX Telescope  L Harris
Space – the first 50 years  Arnold
Star testing of Telescopes  Suiter
Stargazing Live guides 2011 to 2014  BBC
Stars & Planets  Wace
Stars over Europe  Henarejos
Stellar Evolution  Catchpole
Sunspots & Star spots  Thomas & Weiss
Telescopes & Techniques – 2nd Edition.  Chris Kitchin
The 20 cm SCT Telescope  Manly
The Art and Science of CCD Astronomy  R Ratledge
The Astronomer’s Guide to the Deep-Sky cat.  J Cavin
The Caldwell Objects and How to Observe Them  M Mobberley
The Constellation Observing Atlas  K Jones
The Deep-Sky Observer’s Year  Privett-Parsons
The Dragons of Eden  Carl Sagan
The Extravagant Universe  R Kirshner
The future of spacetime  S Hawking
The Grand Design  S Hawking
The great Beyond  Halpern
The Hartfield Photo Lunar  Atlas  Cook
The Messier Objects with a Small telescope  P Pugh
The Nature of Time & Space  Hawking
The Night Sky KIT  Readers Digest.
The Observer’s Guide to Planetary Motion  Dominic Ford
The Observers Year  Moore
The particle at the end of the Universe  Carroll
The Practical Astronomer  Colin Ronan
The Rainbow Sky: An Exploration of Colors in the Solar System and Beyond  Tony Buick
The Singular Universe  Unger
The six inch Lunar Atlas  Don Spain
The Sun An Introduction  Michael Stix
The Transit of Venus  Hughton 
The Universe  Creation without Creator?  G Borner
The Universe Before the Big Bang  M Gasperini
The Universe in a nutshell  S Hawking
The Violent Universe  Weaver
Using  Amateur Astronomical Spectrographs  J L Hopkins
Using the Meade ETX  M Weasner
Varieties of scientific Experience  Carl Sagan
Visual Lunar and Planetary Astronomy  P G Abel
Weird Universe  D Seargent
What came before the Big Bang  Penrose
Wonders of the Universe  Brian Cox
World in the balance  Crease
Alexander Observatory Observers Manual FAS
Observind Meteors,comets & supernova N Bones
Telescopes under Suburban skies N Monk
The Arrow of Time Coveney
Visual Astronomy in the Suburbs Cooke