Reference Library


Before the advent of computers, the internet and other software that now provide most of the day to day information needed by the amateur astronomer, bound paper atlases, guides and other reference books were essential. Over time one inevitably built up a small library of such books which even now can, and do, serve a useful purpose.

Many are out of print and some are collectors items. A case in point is the second edition of Astronomical Objects for Southern Telescopes which now sells for more than twice its original price.
Atlases
Norton's Star Atlas and Telescope Handbook
Constellations - A Concise Guide in Colour
Amateur Astronomer's Photographic Lunar Atlas
The Cambridge Star Atlas
Uranometria 2000 volumes 1 & 2
Atlas of the Southern Night Sky
Sky & Telescope's Pocket Sky Atlas
21st Century Atlas of the Moon

Object Guides, etc
The Messier Album
Burnham's Celestial Handbook volumes 1 to 3
The Moon Observer's Handbook
Deep-Sky Video Astronomy
Astronomical Objects for Southern Telescopes 2nd ed'n
Imaging the Southern Sky

ATM
Amateur Telescope Making - Book 2
Amateur Astronomer's Handbook
How to Make a Telescope

Norton & Inglis

Klepešta & Rűkl

Harry Hatfield

Wil Tirion
Tirion, Rappaport & Lovi
Massey & Quirk
Sinnott
Wood & Collins


Mallas & Kreimer
Burnham

Price
Massey & Quirk
Malin & Frew

Chadwick & Cooper

Ingalls
Sidgwick
Texereau