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Philip’s Stargazing with Binoculars Philip’s Deep Sky Observer This pack for the amateur deep sky observer contains three essential items for exploring the Universe beyond our Solar System. • Philip’s Deep Sky Observer’s Guide: A practical guide to deep sky observing, with descriptions of more than 200 objects, written by Neil Bone, winner of the British Astronomical Association’s Merlin Medal. • Philip’s Deep Sky Chart: A large wall chart by Wil Tirion showing the night sky in three superb maps. As well as identifying all stars visible with the naked eye, it also shows galaxies, nebulae and other deep sky objects. • Philip’s Deep Sky Calendar: A full-colour wall poster featuring a deep sky object for every week of the year. Suitable for observers in both hemispheres. Following the success of Philip’s Stargazing with A Telescope and by popular demand, Philip’s Stargazing with Binoculars is a practical and easy-to-use guide to binoculars and how to achieve the best results. Whether you are a keen astronomer or bird-watcher, buying for the first time or looking for an upgrade, this guide will provide you with straightforward explanations of how binoculars work and gives you a list of objects in the night sky to look at with different sizes of binoculars. Philip’s Stargazing 2009 Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest Philip’s Moonwatch A complete starter pack for the lunar observer, P h i l i p ’s Moonwatch contains three essential items for finding your way around the Moon: • Philip’s Moon Observer’s Guide: An illustrated introduction describing the best features to observe on each day of the lunar month. It also contains information on drawing and photographing the Moon. Written by Peter Grego, Director of the Lunar Section of Britain’s Society for Popular Astronomy. • Philip’s Moon Map: A detailed and attractive large format map of the Moon, with over 500 features labelled and indexed. • Philip’s Moon Poster: Only available with Moonwatch, this photographic poster shows the Moon on each day of the lunar month. It is double-sided, showing the phases of the Moon as seen from both the northern and southern hemipsheres. Philip’s Solar System Observer A brand new pack for the amateur Solar System observer. It contains three essential items for exploring and enjoying our corner of the Universe. • Philip’s Solar System Observer’s Guide: This practical 232-page illustrated guide is suitable for observers with small-to medium-sized telescopes or binoculars; it is written by Peter Grego. • Philip’s Map of the Solar System: A new large-format chart that uses mapping returned from space probes to provide a close-up view of the Solar System. • Philip’s Solar System Phenomena poster: A stunning, full-colour, A1-sized wall poster featuring the top 25 phenomena to observe within the Solar System. A new edition of this popular month-by-month guide to the ever- c h a n g i n g night sky, written by internationally known science communicators Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest. It is indispensable to skywatchers wanting to see all the year’s most fascinating events, whether observing with the naked eye or with a large telescope. Each month has a colour star chart, created by Wil Tirion, with the Moon and planets marked in easy-to-spot colours. Information is given on the planets, Sun, Moon, meteors and other special events. Interesting deep sky objects are described for users of binoculars or telescopes. An equipment guide provides a round-up of what’s new in observing technology. ‘ Clear and relevant’ THE OBSERVATORY Autumn 2008 £6.99 PB 978 0 540 09314 4 230 x 160mm 64 pages Still available Stargazing 2008 978 0 540 09027 3 Contents value £21.97 Save £8.98! ‘ Probably the best beginner’s guide on the market...’ SKY & TELESCOPE ‘ ...an attractive and useful set’ SKY & TELESCOPE NEW EDITION • Philip’s Deep Sky Pack £12.99 978 0 540 08642 9 294 x 294mm Contains: • Philip’s Deep Sky Observer’s Guide • Philip’s Deep Sky Chart • Philip’s Deep Sky Calendar Contents value £21.97 Save £8.98! • Philip’s Moonwatch £12.99 978 0 540 08543 9 294 x 294mm Contains: • Philip’s Moon Observer’s Guide • Philip’s Moon Map • Philip’s Moon Poster Contents value £21.97 Save £8.98! • Philip’s Solar System Observer £12.99 978 0 540 08828 7 300 x 320 mm Contains: • Philip’s Solar System Observer’s Guide • Philip’s Map of the Solar System • Philip’s Solar System Poster £7.99 978 0 540 09022 8 198 x 126mm
£9.99 PB 978 0 540 08935 2 198 x 126mm 256 pages 4th edition £10.99 HB 978 0 540 08610 8 290 x 240mm 80 pages Philip’s Stargazing with a Telescope Robin Scagell An essential guide to telescope choosing and using. This straightforward, practical guide to telescopes and how to achieve the best results has been fully updated to include all the latest equipment on the market. Features include ‘What if’ boxes, containing solutions to common problems encountered by novice users; lists of objects to look at; and easy-to-use star maps covering the whole sky. Written by Robin Scagell, Vice-President of Britain’s Society for Popular Astronomy. Philip’s Practical Astronomy Storm Dunlop This practical illustrated guide has been fully revised and is the ideal introduction to observational astronomy. The first half, ‘Beginning Astronomy’, explains where, when and how to observe, what equipment to use (whether with the naked eye, binoculars or a small telescope), and how to record your observations. The second section, ‘Exploring the Sky’, looks in more detail at all the objects the amateur can view, from objects in our Solar System to deep sky objects. It includes lists of interesting observational targets. The book is illustrated with more than 150 colour images, a Moon map and two sets of star maps by Wil Tirion. The author is a former President of the British Astronomical Association. ‘ ...attractive, clearly written and includes all that a beginner would need to know to get started’ POPULAR ASTRONOMY Philip’s Atlas of Stars & Planets Ian Ridpath Written specially for 8–14 year olds, with a clear and lively text, this is an ideal introduction to astronomy. It is full of fascinating facts and figures about the Universe and is packed with photographs taken from giant telescopes and the latest space probes. Illustrated throughout with colourful artworks and maps, it also contains star charts covering the whole of the sky. The book concludes with quiz questions for budding young astronomers. Philip’s Guide to Stars & Planets Sir Patrick Moore A thoroughly revised and updated edition of this wellestablished and popular title. Concise chapters describe the Sun, Moon, planets, asteroids and meteors, stars and galaxies. A complete set of constellation maps, created by Wil Tirion, is accompanied by lists of interesting objects to view. An entire Moon Map is also included. The book contains practical details for amateur observers anywhere on Earth, and is an excellent introduction to astronomy for both practical and armchair observers. Full-colour throughout, it is illustrated with the latest images from the world’s best telescopes. 2nd editon £9.99 PB 978 0 540 08999 4 198 x 126mm 208 pages 2nd edition £7.99 PB 978 0 540 08478 4 198 x 126mm 192 pages
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Page 15 and 16: Philip’s City by City Britain £9
Page 17 and 18: Philip’s EasyRead Europe £14.99
Page 19 and 20: Autumn 2008 £30.00 HB 978 0 540 09
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Page 31 and 32: £25.00 HB 978 0 540 08215 5 305 x
Page 33 and 34: £25.00 HB 978 0 540 08968 0 280 x
Page 35 and 36: £9.99 PB 978 0 540 08566 8 198 x 1
Page 37 and 38: 2nd edition £9.99 PB 978 0 540 085
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