Tall 8vo. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. 254pp. Prof. ills. with b/w photographs, diagrams, maps, and tables. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; In removable plastic/brown paper cover. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. Written with the serious amateur in mind, this book, is designed to push the amateur towards real scientific research. Sections include equipment, observatories, photography, radio astronomy, observation of individual planets, comets, meteors, recording, and calculations.

PATRICK MOORE, Practical Amateur Astronomy, serious amateur, equipment, observatories, photography, radio astronomy, observation of individual planets, comets, meteors, recording, calculations,