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Patrick Moore's Yearbook of Astronomy 2012: 50th Anniversary Edition

Patrick Moore's Yearbook of Astronomy 2012: 50th Anniversary Edition

by PatrickMoore (Author), JohnMason (Author)

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    Hardcover 2011

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The 2012 edition of the Yearbook of Astronomy celebrates Sir Patrick Moore's remarkable fifty-year tenure on the book with a selection of the best writing to have appeared in its pages, and a special picture section showing the most important and astonishing astronomical photographs from the era. It also contains all of the usual excellent features: articles by some of the world's top astronomers, an authoritative collection of charts and astronomical data, and a month-by-month guide to events in the coming year: planets, eclipses, comets, meteors, nebulae and phases of the moon. 'The sort of book that beggars the reviewer's powers of expression ...These charts are masterpieces of clarity and detail ...Indispensable' Astronomy & Space

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 544
 Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 18 Nov 2011
ISBN 10: 023075984X
ISBN 13: 9780230759848

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The sort of book that beggars the reviewer's powers of expression . . . These charts are masterpieces of clarity and detail . . . Indispensable. -- Astronomy & Space
Author Bio
Sir Sir Patrick Moore is the world's best-known living astronomer, and has written more than 60 books on the subject. In 2001 he received a Knighthood, won a BAFTA for his services to television and became a member of the celebrated Royal Society. He lives in Selsey, Sussex. Professor John Mason MBE is a world authority on astronomy. He has co-edited the Yearbook of Astronomy with Patrick Moore for more than ten years.