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
| ISBN | 023075984X | | Pages | 544 | | ISBN13 | 9780230759848
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 953 | | Publisher | Pan Macmillan | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Macmillan | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 135 | | Publication date | 18 Nov 2011 | | Spine width (mm) | 38 | | DEWEY | 520.5 | | Academic level | General, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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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 "
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