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List Price: £59.00
Our Price: £50.40
Author:
Ben Bussey, Paul D. Spudis
By Cambridge University Press
 The Clementine Atlas of the Moon, 2005-11-22
Excellent. A must for all people interested in the moon. The only slight bug bear is that some of the images towards the beginning are so compressed that they lack detail. Other than that an excellent book.The text is easy to read, the Clementine mission well described, & the charts treat the near & far sides of the moon equally in stunning detail. The charts are shown with actual Clementine images & a labled airbrush map. There are a few minor mistakes on the airbrush maps, but the authors do mention this & to be honest, you would really have to look very hard to find them. If you do find any, then obviously the Clementine image map is the correct one. Would love to see this kind of publication for Venus, Mars, Io, Ganymede, etc.
List Price: £130.00
Our Price: £109.96
Author:
Gary W. Kronk
By Cambridge University Press
A treasure trove of information, 2001-11-30
This book supersedes the first part of Kronk's excellent earlier guide to comets. It offers a complete list of comets and possible cometary sightings up to 1799; for each comet he summarises the available observations. The author has made extensive searches through Chinese, Babylonian and European sources, many of which are hard to come by. Many of the earlier entries are very short and repetitive, but that's the nature of the scanty observations. He quotes orbital elements whenever they are available; he is undiscriminating here, as many of these elements are so dubious that they are excluded from the standard catalogues. The nature of the observations changes dramatically over time, from quaint references to broom stars to careful telescopic observations by great observers like Messier and Herschel. It will be interesting to see if Kronk can keep up the same standard in later volumes when more recent comets, observed with ever more sophisticated equipment and even space probes, must be discussed.
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