The Joan Thomas Library
The Society's "Joan Thomas Library" is named after a loved and much respected previous Society Librarian who died in 2015. It is for use by Society members and contains an extensive range of astronomical books. The Library Catalogue has been divided according to subject to make browsing a bit easier, and is set out below. Please bear in mind that some books are currently out on loan.
The Library is located in a side room off the lecture room at the Cardiff University Department of Physics and Astronomy in which the Society holds its fortnightly talks. The Library is usually open for at least half an hour prior to the talks and for a short period afterwards. Items can be borrowed - by paid-up members only - for an initial period of two calendar months but the loan period can be extended upon request to the current Librarian, provided that no other member has asked to borrow the item.
Finally, the Society is happy to receive donated books from members and we would also welcome reviews from members of Library books they have borrowed and enjoyed!
| Atlases | ||
| Atlas of the Heavens - Atlas Coeli 1950 | Antonio Becvar | 1962 |
| Elger's Map of the Moon | H P Wilkins | 1959 |
| Philip's Moon Map | 1990 | |
| Star Clusters | B A Archinal & S J Hynes | 2003 |
| Starlist 2000 Quick Ref Star Catalogue | Richard Dibon-Smith | 2000 |
| The Atlas of Mercury | Charles Across & Patrick Moore | 1977 |
| The Atlas of the Universe | Patrick Moore | 1970 |
| The Night Sky Observer's Guide Vol 1: Autumn & Winter | G R Kepple & G W Sanner | 2000 |
| The Night Sky Observer's Guide Vol 2: Spring & Summer | G R Kepple & G W Sanner | 2002 |
| The Photographic Atlas of the Stars | H J P Artnold, P Doherty & P Moore | 1999 |
| The Stargazer's Handbook | Giles Sparrow | 2007 |
| Variable Stars - Webb Society Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook | Ed. K G Jones | 1990 |
| Biographical | ||
| A Journey with Fred Hoyle The Search for Cosmic Life | Chandra Wickramasinghe | 2005 |
| Carl Sagan - A Life | Keay Davidson | 1999 |
| Edwin Hubble - Mariner of the nebulae | Gale E Christianson | 1995 |
| Einstein for Beginners | J Schwartz & M McGuinness | 1992 |
| Einstein in 90 minutes | John & Mary Cribbin | 1997 |
| England's Leonardo: Robert Hooke & the 17th Century Scientific Revolution | Allan Chapman | 2005 |
| Explorers of Space | Patrick Moore | 1986 |
| Fred Hoyle - A Life in Science | Simon Mitton | 2005 |
| From Copernicus to Einstein | Hans Reichenbach | 1970 |
| Jeremiah Horrocks - young genius & first Venus transit observer | Paul Marston | 2004 |
| John Glenn - A Memoir | John Glenn & Nick Taylor | 1999 |
| Longitude - The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time | Dava Sobel | 1996 |
| Miss Leavitt's Stars | George Johnson | 2005 |
| Newton's Gift | David Berlinski | 2000 |
| Patrick Moore - The Autobiography | Patrick Moore | 2003 |
| Richard Feynman - A Life in Science | John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin | 1998 |
| Searching the Stars. The story of Caroline Herschel | M B Ogilvie | 2008 |
| Space has no Frontier - The terrestrial life& Times of Bernard Lovell | J Bromey-Dacvenport | 2013 |
| Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" - A Reader's Companion | Ed: Stephen Hawking Prepared by Gene Stone | 1992 |
| Stephen Hawking A Life in Science | M White & J Gribbin | 1992 |
| Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! | Richard P Feynman | 1985 |
| The Age of Wonder | Richard Holmes | 2008 |
| CDs | ||
| Atlas of the Solar System | Peter Grossi etc | 2004 |
| CD-3D Atlas of Mars | Xamba Software Ltd | 2001 |
| CD-Solar System Explorer | Knowledge | 1996 |
| Introducing Chandra & The X-ray Univers | 2007 | |
| Various "Sky At Night" CDs | BBC | 2010 |
| Cosmology | ||
| Ancient Light. Our Changing View of the Universe | Alan Lightman | 1991 |
| Big Bang - The most important scientific discovery of all time etc | Simon Singh | 2004 |
| Black Holes | J P Luminet | 1992 |
| Bubbles, voids and bumps in time - the new cosmology | Ed. James Cornell | 1989 |
| Companion to the Cosmos | John Gribbin | 1997 |
| Cosmic Catastrophes | J Craig Wheeler | 2000 |
| Cosmic Imagery - Key Images in the History of Science | John D Barrow | 2008 |
| Cosmos - The infographic book of space | Stuart Lowe & Chris North | 2015 |
| Dark Side of the Universe - Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Fate of the Cosmos | Iain Nicolson | 2007 |
| Einstein's Greatest Blunder? | Donald Goldsmith | 1995 |
| Just Six Numbers | Martin Rees | 1999 |
| Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos - the Quest for the Secret of the Universe | Dennis Overbye | 1993 |
| Man and the Cosmos | Gerald E Tauber | 1979 |
| Masks of the Universe - Changing Ideas on the Nature of the Cosmos | Edward Harrison | 2003 |
| Masters of Time | John Boslough | 1992 |
| Matter, Dark Matter and Anti-Matter | Alain Mazure & Vincent Le Brun | 2012 |
| Our Cosmic Habitat | Martin Rees | 2001 |
| Redshift | Stuart Clark | 1997 |
| Relativity and Cosmology, 2nd Edition | William J Kaufman III | 1977 |
| Stardust - the cosmic recycling of stars, planets and people | John Gribbin | 2001 |
| The Alchemy of the Heavens (2 copies) | Ken Croswell | 1996 |
| The Artful Universe Expanded | John D Barrow | 2005 |
| The Big Bang Theory | Karen C Fox | 2002 |
| The Big Questions | Stuart Clark | 2012 |
| The Birth of Time - How We Measured The Age Of The Universe | John Gribbin | 1999 |
| The Cosmic Onion | Frank Close | 1983 |
| The Cosmos | Time Life | 1988 |
| The Dark Matter - The Quest for the Mass Hidden in our Universe | W & K Tucker | 1988 |
| The Edge of Infinity | Paul Davies | 1994 |
| The Elegant Universe - Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory | Brian Greene | 1999 |
| The Last Three Minutes. | Paul Davies | 1994 |
| The Magic Furnace | Marcus Chown | 1999 |
| The Nature of the Universe (A Series of Broadcast Lectures) | Fred Hoyle | 1950 |
| The New World of Mr Tompkins | Gamow & Stannard | 1999 |
| The Origin of the Universe | John D Barrow | 1994 |
| The Stuff of the Universe - Dark Matter, Mankind and the Coincidences of Cosmology | John Gribbin & Martin Rees | 1990 |
| To See the Face of God | Jonathon Davies | 2008 |
| Towards the Edge of the Universe | Stuart Clark | 1997 |
| Wrinkles in Time | George Snoot & Keay Davidson | 1995 |
| Encyclopaedia | ||
| Collins Dictionary of Astronomy | Daintith and Gould | 2006 |
| Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia | Misc | 1993 |
| Space Encyclopedia | Heather Cooper & Nigel Henbest | 1999 |
| The Astronomy Encyclopaedia | Ed. Patrick Moore | 1989 |
| The Canopus Encyclopedia of Astronomy | Ed. P Murdin & M Penston | 2004 |
| The Icon Critical Dictionary of the New Cosmology | Ed. Peter Coles | 1998 |
| Evolution | ||
| Astrophysics I: Stars | R Bowers & T Deeming | 1984 |
| Astrophysics II: Interstellar Matter and Galaxies | R Bowers & T Deeming | 1984 |
| Colliding Galaxies The Universe in Turmoil | Barry Parker | 1990 |
| Galaxies | Open University | 1994 |
| Stellar Evolution | A J Meadows | 1982 |
| Structure and Evolution of Galaxies | Ed. Giancarlo Setti | 1974 |
| Supernova - The violent death of a star | Donald Goldsmith | 1990 |
| The Classification of Stars | C Jaschek & M Jaschek | 1990 |
| General | ||
| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | 1988 |
| Afterglow of Creation - From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples | Marcus Chown | 1993 |
| Astronomica | Professor Patrick Moore | 2007 |
| Astronomy | Iain Nicolson | 1974 |
| Astronomy for Dummies | Stephen P Maran | 2005 |
| Astronomy - A Beginner's Guide to the Sky at Night | Paul Sutherland | 2007 |
| Astronomy - A Self-teaching Guide | Dinal L Moche | 1993 |
| At Home in the Universe - The Search for Laws of Complexity | Stuart Kauffman | 1995 |
| Between Inner Space and Outer Space | John D Barrow | 2000 |
| Cosmos | Carl Sagan | 1981 |
| Dust - A History of the Small & the Invisible | Joseph A Amato | 2000 |
| First Light - The Search for the Edge of the Universe | Richard Preston | 1991 |
| First Magnitude - A book of the Bright Sky | James B Kaler | 2013 |
| Foundations of Astronomy | Michael A Seeds | 1990 |
| Galileo's Finger - the Ten Great Ideas of Science | Peter Atkins | 2003 |
| Hothouse Earth - the Greenhouse Effect & Gaia | John Gribbin | 1990 |
| Introductory Astronomy | Keith Holliday | 1998 |
| Letts Pocket Guide to Stars & Planets | P Forey & C Fitzsimons | 1991 |
| Nothing: From absolute zero to cosmic oblivion - amazing insights into nothingness | Ed. Jeremy Webb | 2013 |
| Observing the Deep Sky - an astronomer's companion | Daren Bushnall | 2005 |
| Other Worlds - Space, Superspace and the Quantum Universe | Paul Davies | 1988 |
| Patrick Moore's Astronomy Quiz Book | Patrick Moore | 1987 |
| Secrets of Space | Anthony Feldman | 1980 |
| Space - Discover the Universe | Miles Kelly | 2012 |
| Spacewatching | Burnham, Dyer, Garfinkle, George etc | 1998 |
| Teach Yourself Astronomy with Patrick Moore | Patrick Moore | 1995 |
| The Book of Nothing | John D Barrow | 2000 |
| The Case of the Missing Neutrinos and other curious phenomena of the Universe | John Gribbin | 2000 |
| The Cosmic Blueprint | Paul Davies | 1989 |
| The Cosmic Microwave Background | Rhodri Evans | 2015 |
| The Dynamic Universe - an introduction to astronomy, 4th edition | Theodore P Snow | 1991 |
| The Emperor's New Mind | Roger Penrose | 1989 |
| The End of Science | John Horgan | 1996 |
| The Exploding Universe | Nigel Henbest | 1979 |
| The Guide to the Galaxy | Henbest and Cooper | 1994 |
| The London Planetarium | ||
| The Natural History of the Universe | Colin A Ronan | 1991 |
| The Pocket Guide to Astronomy | Ian Ridpath | 1990 |
| The Rough Guide to the Universe | John Scalzi | 2003 |
| The Secret Life of Dust From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter etc | Hannah Holmes | 2001 |
| The Universe in a Nutshell | Stephen Hawking | 2001 |
| The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics | Ed. Timothy Ferris | 1991 |
| Universe, 6th edition | Kaufmann & Freedman | 2002 |
| What's New in Space | Patrick Moore | 1982 |
| Historic | ||
|---|---|---|
| A Treatise on Astronomy | Hugh Godfray | 1886 |
| Dust - A History of the Small & the Invisible | Joseph A Amato | 2000 |
| Foundations of Astronomy | W M Smart | 1965 |
| Guide de l'Ouvrier en Verres d'Optique de Precision | Colonel Charles Deve | 1930 |
| In Starry Realms | Sir Robert S Ball | 1892 |
| L'Evolution de l'Astronomie Moderne | Pierre Busco | 1912 |
| New Handbook of the Heavens | Bernard Bennett Rice | 1948 |
| Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects | Sir John F W Herschel | 1895 |
| Recent Advances in Astronomy | Alfred H.Fison | 1898 |
| Science News 19 | Ed: J L Crammer | 1951 |
| Star-Land | Sir Robert S Ball | 1893 |
| Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings | W F Denning | 1891 |
| The Cardiff City Telescope (2 copies) | Arthur Mee | 1906 |
| The Expanding Universe (in transparent folder) | Sir Arthur Eddington | 1941 |
| The Expanding Universe | Sir Arthur Eddington | 1933 |
| The Living Universe | J D Hebwynd & V A Rytov | 1963 |
| The Milky Way | Bart J Bok & Priscilla F Bok | 1946 |
| The Mysterious Universe | Sir James Jeans | 1931 |
| The Nature of the Universe | Fred Hoyle | 1950 |
| The Stars in their Courses | Sir James Jeans | 1931 |
| The Story of the Heavens (2 copies) | Sir Robert Stawell Ball | 1891 |
| The Story of the Heavens | Sir Robert Ball | 1913 |
| The Telescope | Louis Bell | 1922 |
| The Telescope | Sir John Herschel | 1861 |
| Violent Universe | Nigel Calder | 1973 |
| History | ||
| Astronomy before the Telescope | Ed: Christopher Walker | 1996 |
| Gods in the Sky. Astronomy form the Ancients to the Renaissance | Allan Chapman | 2001 |
| Lunatick Astronomy. The Astronomical Activities of the Lunar Society (2 copies) | Andrew P B Lound | 2008 & 2009 |
| Measuring the Universe | Kitty Ferguson | 1999 |
| Newton and the Counterfeiter | Thomas Levenson | 2009 |
| Parallax - The race to measure the Cosmos | Alan W Hirshfeld | 2001 |
| Patrick Moore's Millennium Yearbook | Patrick Moore & Allan Chapman | 2000 |
| Star Names - Their Lore and Meaning | R Hincklay Allen | 2005 |
| Starseekers | Colin Wilson | 1980 |
| Stonehenge Neolithic Man and the Cosmos | John North | 1996 |
| The Age of Science - What Scientists Learned in the Twentieth Century | Gerard Piel | 2001 |
| The Book Nobody Read - in pursuit of revolutions of Copernicus | Owen Gingerich | 2004 |
| The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy | Ed Michael Hoskin | 1999 |
| The Dance of Time - The Origins of the Calendar | Michael Judge | 2004 |
| The Story of Jodrell Bank | Bernard Lovell | 1968 |
| The Sun Kings | Stuart Clark | 2007 |
| Life | ||
| Cosmic Dragons Life and Death on our Planet | Chandra Wickramasinghe | 2001 |
| Deep Simplicity - Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life | John Gribbin | 2004 |
| Extraterrestrial Intelligence | Jean Heidman | 1995 |
| Other Worlds - The search for life in the universe | Michael Lemonick | 1998 |
| Rare Earth - Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe | Peter Ward & Donald Brownlee | 2000 |
| The Origin of Life | Paul Davies | 2003 |
| Where Is Everybody? The search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence | Edward Ashpole | 1989 |
| Observational | ||
|---|---|---|
| Astronomical Photometry | A Henden & R H Kaitchuck | 1990 |
| Astrophotography for the Amateur | Michael Covington | 1991 |
| A Walk through the Heavens | Milton D Heifetz and Wil Tirion | 1996 |
| Binocular Astronomy | G.Crossen & W Tirion | 2008 |
| Challenges of Astronomy. Hands-on Experiments for the Sky & Laboratory | Schlosser, Schmidt-Kaler & Milone | 1994 |
| Deep Sky Observing | Steven R Coe | 2000 |
| Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars | Patrick Moore | 1986 |
| Field Guide to the Deep Sky Objects | Mike Inglis | 2001 |
| How to Observe the Sun Safely | Lee Macdonald | 2002 |
| Introduction to Digital Astrophotography | Robert Reeves | 2006 |
| Light Pollution Responses and Remedies | Bob Mizon | 2002 |
| New Astronomy. The Practical Guide to the Skills & Techniques of Skywatching | Carole Stott | 1999 |
| Night Scenes - Guide to Simple Astrophotography | Paul Money | 2012 |
| Night Scenes - 2015 | Paul Money | 2015 |
| Night Sky Northern Hemisphere | Storm Dunlop | 2008 |
| Observing the Constellations | John Sanford | 1989 |
| Philip's Dark Skies Map | BAA CfDS | 2004 |
| Pocket Guide to Stars and Planets | Ed. Martin Wace | 1998 |
| Practical Astronomy - A User-friendly Handbook for Sky Watchers | H Robert Mills | 1994 |
| Skywatching | Davy Levy | 1994 |
| Solar Observing Techniques | Chris Kitchen | 2001 |
| The Art of Astrophotography | Ian Morison | 2017 |
| The Guide to Amateur Astronomy | J Newton & P Teece | 1995 |
| The Messier Album | Mallas & Kreimer | 1978 |
| The Modern Amateur Astronomer | Ed. Patrick Moore | 1995 |
| The Monthly Sky Guide | Ian Ridpath & Wil Tirion | 1996 & 1997 |
| The Observer's Guide to Astronomy Vol 1 | Ed. Patrick Martinez | 1994 |
| The Observer's Guide to Astronomy Vol 2 | Ed. Patrick Martinez | 1994 |
| The Observer's Sky Atlas | E.Karkoschka 2nd edition | 1998 |
| The Skywatcher's Handbook | Colin A Ronan | 1985 |
| The Stars - The Starry Sky | Patrick Moore | 1994 |
| Turn Left at Orion. A hundred night sky objects to see in a small telescope and how to find them | Guy Consolmagno & Dan M Davis | 1989 |
| Viewing and Imaging the Solar System - A Guide for Amateur Astronomers | Jane Clark | 2015 |
| Oddments | ||
| Extraterrestrials - Where are they? | Ed Zuckerman and Hart | 1995 |
| I'r Lleuad a Thu Hwnt | Eirwen Gwynn | 1964 |
| Keeper of Genesis - The quest for the hidden legacy of mankind | G.Bauval & G.Hancock | 1996 |
| The Meaning of It All | Richard P Feynman | 1998 |
| Physics | ||
|---|---|---|
| ABC of Relativity | Bertrand Russell | 1958 |
| Einstein's Mirror | Tony Hey and Patrick Walters | 1997 |
| Einstein's Theory of Relativity | Max Born | 1962 |
| In Search of Schrodinger's Cat - Quantum Physics and Reality | John Gribbin | 1996 |
| In Search of SUSY - Supersymmetry and the Theory of Everythng | John Gribbin | 1998 |
| Physics: A World View | Larry D Kirkpatrick & Gregory E FrancisThomson Learning Inc | 2004 |
| Quarks - The Stuff of Matter | Harold Fritzsch | 1983 |
| QED - the Strange Theory of Light and Matter | Richard P Feynman | 1990 |
| Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality | John Gribbin | 1996 |
| Supersymmetry and Beyond | Gordon Kane | 2013 |
| The Fabric of the Cosmos | Brian Greene | 2004 |
| The Matter Myth - Beyond Chaos and Complexity | Paul Davies & John Gribbin | 1992 |
| The New Physics | Ed. Paul Davies | 1992 |
| Turbulent Mirror - Guide to chaos and the science of wholeness | Briggs & Peat | 1990 |
| Pictures | ||
| A Concise Guide to the Stars & Planets | Duncan John | 2006 |
| A Journey Through Time - Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope | J Barbree & M Caidin | 1995 |
| Cosmic Butterfies. The Colorful Mysteries of Planetary Nebulae | Sun Knowk | 2001 |
| Galaxies | Galaxies | 1988 |
| Galaxies | Timothy Ferris | 1980 |
| Hubble - the mirror on the universe | Robin Kerrod | 2003 |
| Images of the Cosmos | Jones, Lambourne & Rothery | 1990 |
| The Amazing Universe | Herbert Friedman | 1975 |
| The Night Sky | Ed Cloutman | 2013 |
| Universe - A Journey from Earth to the centre of the Cosmos | Nicolas Cheetham | 2006 |
| Visions of Heaven | Tom Wilkie & Mark Rosselli | 1998 |
| Solar System | ||
| Arctic Lights | Tromso Museum | 2005 |
| Astrophysics of the Sun | Harold Zirin | 1987 |
| Aurora - The Northern Lights in Mythology, History & Science | Harold Falck-Ytter | 1999 |
| Beginner's Guide to the Sun | P O Taylor & N Hendrickson | 1995 |
| Comet | Carl Sagan Ann Druyan | 1997 |
| Comets - Creators and Destroyers | David H.Levy | 1998 |
| Comets - Culture and Catastrophe | Prof Wickramasinghe | 1998 |
| Discovering the Solar System | Barrie W.Jones | 1999 |
| Extrasolar Planets | Stuart Clark | 1998 |
| Feynman's Lost Lecture - the Motion of Planets around the Sun | David L Goodstein and Judith R Goodstein | 1997 |
| Guide to the Planets | Patrick Moore | 1971 |
| Jupiter | G Hunt & Patrick Moore | 1981 |
| Lifting Titan's Veil | R Lorenz & J Mitton | 2002 |
| Mars - the Inside Story of the Red Planet | Heather Cooper & Nigel Henbest | 2001 |
| Mars - the Next Frontier (Into Space 5!) | Sir Patrick Moore | 2003 |
| Marswalk One | D J & M D Shayler & A Salmon | 2005 |
| Meteorites and their Parent Planets | Harry Y McSween Jr. | 1999 |
| Meteotites - The Key to Our Existence | Natural History Museum | |
| Patrick Moore on Mars | Patrick Moore | 1999 |
| Philip's Moon Observer's Guide | Peter Grego | 2003 |
| Sunquakes. Probing the Interior of the Sun | J B Zirker | 2003 |
| The Atlas of the Solar System | Patrick Moore, Iain Nicolson etc | 1990 |
| The Aurora. An introduction for observers and photographers | J Henderson &J MacNicol | 1997 |
| The Book of the Moon | Rick Stroud | 2009 |
| The Cosmogony of the Solar System | Fred Hoyle | 1978 |
| The Galaxy and the Solar System | Ed. Smoluchowski & Bahcall & Matthews | 1986 |
| The Neptune File | Tom Standage | 2000 |
| The New Solar System 4th edition | Ed. Beatty Perterson Chaikin | 1999 |
| The Real Mars. Spirit Opportunity etc | Michael Hanlon | 2004 |
| The Sun | Iain Nicolson | 1982 |
| The Sun - A biography | David Whitehouse | 2005 |
| Venus | Patrick Moore | 1988 |
| Volcanoes of the Solar System | Charles Frankel | 1996 |
| Wanderers in Space |
| Space Programme | ||
|---|---|---|
| A History of Space Flight (Countdown) | T A Heppenheimer | 1997 |
| Colonies in Space | T A Heppenheimer | 197 |
| Computers in Space. Journeys with Nasa | Tomayko | |
| Creating the International Space Station | Harland & Catchpole | 2002 |
| Disasters and Accidents in Manned Spaceflight | David Shayler | 2000 |
| How Spacecraft Fly. Spaceflight without Formulae | Graham Swinerd | 2008 |
| Into the Black - The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle and the Men Who Flew Her | Rowland White | 2016 |
| Lunar Rover - Owners' Workshop Manual | Riley, Woods & Dolling | 2012 |
| Moon Dust | Andrew Smith | 2006 |
| Nasa's Voyager Missions, Exploring the Solar System | Ben Evans | 2003 |
| Reaching for the stars. An illustrated history of manned spaceflight | Peter Bond | 1998 |
| Skylab America's Space Station | David J.Shayler | 2001 |
| Solar System Log | Andrew Wilson | 1987 |
| Space - The next 100 years | Nicholas Booth | |
| Space Exploration - Discover the space that surrounds our world etc | Carole Stott | 1997 |
| Space is a Funny Place | Colin Pillinger etc | 2007 |
| Sputnick to Space Shuttle | Ian Nicholson | 1982 |
| The Giant Leap | Adrian Berry | 2000 |
| Tracking Apollo to the Moon | Hamish Lindsay | 2001 |
| Two Sides of the Moon - Our Story of the Cold War Space Race | David Scott & Alexei Leonov | 2005 |
| We Have Capture | Thomas P.Stafford | 2002 |
| Telescopes | ||
| Astronomical Equipment for Amateurs | Martin Mobberley | 1999 |
| Astronomical Telescopes and Observatories for Amateurs | Patrick Moore | ? |
| Astronomy through the telescope: the 500-year history of the Instruments, the Inventors and their Discoveries | Richard Learner | 1982 |
| Care of Astronomical Telescopes and Accessories | M Barlow Pepin | 2005 |
| Eyes on the Universe | Isaac Asimov | 1976 |
| Royal Greenwich Observatory | Science Research Council | 1975 |
| Small Astronomical Observatories | Ed. Patrick Moore | 1996 |
| Telescopes and techniques | C R Kitchin | 1995 |
| The Adjustment & Testing of Telescope Objectives | T Cooke & Sons | 1921 |
| The Sun and the Amateur Astronomer | W M Baxter | 1973 |
| Using a Telescope (Getting Started in Astronomy) | Tony Williams | 1998 |
