Books

These are the volumes on my bookshelf that are dog-eared and worn. They are right beside my desk so I don't have to get up when I need one. This is by no means an exhaustive list but rather a set of references which I've found handy. You may find others which are perfectly good too. I have given the ISBN identification of books wherever possible. The reader should note that often these standard reference works are updated with later editions or are made available in soft cover. Such changes generally alter the ISBN but the contents remain essentially the same.

Allen's Astrophysical Quantities, C. W. Allen, The Athlone Press, 1973, ISBN 0 485 11150 0

Astronomy, Robert H. Baker, Van Nostrand Press, 1964

Astrophotography for the Amateur, Michael Covington, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 40984 5

Burnham's Celestial Handbook, Robert Burnham, Dover Publications, Inc. ISBNs for the clothbound series are: 0-486-24063-0, 0-486-24064-9 and 0-486-24065-7

The Cambridge Astronomy Guide, Bill Liller and Ben Mayer, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0 521 39915 7

The Cambridge Deep-Sky Album, Jack Newton and Phillip Teece, Cambridge University Press, 1983

Introduction to Asteroids, Clifford Cunningham, Willmann-Bell, Inc., 1988, ISBN 0 943396 16 6

The Sky: A User's Guide, David H. Levy, Cambridge University Press, 1991, ISBN 0 521 391121

One set of books stands out, however, and that is the Harvard Books on Astronomy.