Astronomy Books, Star Charts, and Software

Expand your universe with astronomy books, star charts, and software. Whether you are starting with a simple planisphere (star wheel) or graduating to a multi-volume sky atlas, there is always something new awaiting your personal discovery. We offer books and charts from a variety of publishers, including Ken Press, Sky & Telescope, Willman Bell, and more.

A Beginner's Guide to Astrophotography

This book on CD-ROM by Jerry Lodriguss explains how you can get started taking beautiful astrophotos with your DSLR camera with simple and easy techniques that anyone can learn even if you don't know anything about..

$39.95

Astronomy Hacks

Got your scope? Good. Know how to use it? The authors have a wealth of practical tips for those with a little time in as well as those just getting started. They give methods of observation, including identifying stars and learning to star hop.

$24.95

Binocular Astronomy 2nd Edition

Binocular Astronomy and a pair of binoculars are all you need to begin observing the night sky — stars, open and globular clusters, bright and dark nebulae, galaxies, and much more.

$24.95

CCD Astrophotography

CCD Astrophotography from the Suburbs details one man’s approach to the problem of getting high-quality astronomical images under light-polluted conditions using cooled CCD cameras for cutting through seemingly impenetrable light-pollution.

$34.95

Celestron The World of the Microscope

Celestron's The World of the Microscope is a wonderful companion to a new microscope, filled with fun projects and activities that will help you get the most from it.

$8.99

David H. Levy's Planisphere

This gigantic planisphere features a large star-field window with black stars on a white background. The reverse side lists meteor showers, 26 bright targets for binoculars (also located on the planisphere), and observing tips.

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Deep Sky Wonders

Deep-Sky Wonders is a new collection of the best of Sue French's "Deep-Sky Wonders" columns, the book is organized by season and subdivided into months, offering readers a total of 100 in-depth tours.

$32.95

Deep Space Image Catalog

Deep Space Image Catalog includes a master list of virtually all the best objects in the entire night sky (+90º to -90º declination) with large, high resolution images of every single object.

$35.00

Digital SLR Astrophotography

Digital SLR cameras have taken the astrophotography world by storm. It is now easier to photograph the stars than ever before!

$45.00

Guide To Astrophotography with Digital SLR Cameras

A Guide To Astrophotography with Digital SLR Cameras By Jerry Lodriguss (Book on CD) It explains how digital cameras work and everything you need to know about how to take astrophotos with them.

$39.95

Introduction to Digital AstroPhotography SE

This book in it's Second Edition is a 400+ page comprehensive, nuts-and-bolts introduction to digital astro-imaging written by Robert Reeves, an accomplished author and film imager with nearly 50 years of experience.

$34.95

Nightwatch

This delightful introduction to backyard astronomy includes observing and equipment basics, as well as user-friendly sky charts.

$32.95

Orion Deep Map 600

Orion Deep Map 600 is the first-ever star chart that folds up like a road map! DeepMap 600 shows the positions of the 600 finest celestial objects visible from the Northern Hemisphere. All are plotted on a giant 33" x 21" full-color star chart.

$19.95

Patterns in the Sky

Did you ever wonder exactly what constellation you're seeing when you look up at the night sky? The first book in our Night Sky: Astronomy for Everyone Series will guide even the absolute beginner through the constellations in no time!

$13.95

Photoshop Astronomy - 2nd Edition

Photoshop Astronomy - 2nd Edition, by R. Scott Ireland. Softbound, 280 pages, includes DVD with full resolution images used in this book’s tutorials.

$39.95

Portable Newtonian Telescopes

This massive 694 page book with 472 illustrations and 113 tables that tells you how to design and build a portable Newtonian telescope.

$39.95

Sky & Telescope's Pocket Sky Atlas

Our celestial atlases are the standard by which all others have been judged for a half century. Now we've raised the bar with our new Pocket Sky Atlas! There has never been a more detailed atlas so handy to take on trips and use at the telescope.

$19.99

Sky and Telescope Field Map of the Moon

Here's the only Moon reference you'll ever need at the telescope! With new cartography from Antonín Rükl and more than 1,000 individually labeled landmarks, including the complete libration zones, your Moon-gazing will be more rewarding than ever.

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Sky Atlas 2000.0 2nd Edition

The standard against which all other star atlases are measured, each version of Sky Atlas 2000.0 contains 26 charts covering the whole sky and showing 81,312 single, multiple, and variable stars.

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Sky Atlas 2000.0 Companion, 2nd Edition

This essential reference features an alphabetical listing of every deep-sky object plotted in Sky Atlas 2000.0, 2nd edition. Its main section lists each star cluster, nebula, and galaxy by name.

$24.95

Solar Astronomy Handbook

This book was conceived and written by a group of German amateur observers. Each section was the responsibility of the amateur who had made that aspect of solar astronomy his specialty.

$29.95

Star Testing Astronomical Telescopes 2nd Edition

This book uses computer-generated images to show you how to diagnose various telescope optical-system problems, then tells you how to fix many of the most common ones.

$34.95

Star Ware 4th edition By Philip S. Harrington

Whether you're shopping for your first telescope or your fifth, don't be surprised if you feel overwhelmed by the dazzling array of product choices, bells and whistles, and the literature that describes them all. That's why you need Star Ware.

$21.95

Starry Night Pro 6.3

Starry Night Pro 6.3 - Starry Night Software Will Expand Your Universe. Delve deep into the workings of the cosmos with this powerful, visually realistic software. Explore over 16 million stars and 1 million deep-sky objects right from your desktop.

$149.95

Starry Night Enthusiast Version 6.3

Starry Night Enthusiast 6.3 - Easy Desktop Astronomy without Limits. Explore a vast array of astronomical wonders, both natural and man-made! Replay spectacular fly-bys of Voyager, Galileo, and other famous space missions.

$79.95

Starry Night Pro Plus 6.3

Starry Night Pro Plus 6.3 - See The Sky As Never Before. For the active observer and astrophotographer, Pro Plus 6.3's advanced features will keep you informed and on the cutting edge of your hobby like no other software can.

$249.95

Telescope Optics

Telescope Optics will both arouse your curiosity and answer your questions. This is a very deep technical work explaining what makes one telescope better than another.

$24.95

Telescopes, Eyepieces and Astro

Telescopes, Eyepieces and Astrographs: Design, Analysis and Performance of Modern Astronomical Optics is about every optical element between your eye or your imaging sensor and the night sky.

$39.95

The 100 Best Targets for Astrophotography

With his technical expertise and wide experience as both a visual observer and a photographer, Ruben Kier can help you attain some of the best images you can imagine.

$29.95

The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies

A Chronicle and Observer's Guide In 1966, astronomer Halton Arp compiled his Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which featured 338 images of some of the strangest looking galaxies and galaxy groups then known to exist.

$39.95

The Cambridge Atlas of Herschel Objects

The Cambridge Atlas of Herschel Objects. Written by experienced observer James Mullaney and beautifully illustrated by renowned celestial cartographer Wil Tirion, this is a magnificent "celestial roadmap" to some of the finest deep-sky showpieces.

$34.95

The Cambridge Double Star Atlas

The Cambridge Double Star Atlas. This magnificent atlas contains the most attractive and interesting double and multiple stars for viewing with binoculars and telescopes.

$34.95

The Dobsonian Telescope

The Dobsonian Telescope teaches how you to build Dobsonian telescope or make the one you already have work better. Authors David Kriege and Richard Berry are experienced and well-known telescope makers.

$29.95

The Monthly Sky Guide

The Monthly Sky Guide. This classic beginner’s guide to the night sky has been updated with planet positions and forthcoming eclipses up to the end of the year 2014.

$17.00

The Night Sky Observers Guides

The purpose of The Night Sky Observer's Guide is to provide the owner of a medium or large aperture telescope with some idea of what to look for in such instruments-both what objects can be seen, and what details may be seen within these objects.

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The Year-Round Messier Marathon

Each year, many amateur astronomers do the Messier Marathon - a mad dash to observe all 109 Messier objects in a single moonless night in late March or early April.

$24.95

Touring the Universe

Touring the Universe was written especially for beginners as an introduction to exploring the celestial sphere. This book lists celestial events for 15 years, including eclipses, Moon phases, planetary positions, etc.

$19.95

Uranometria 2000.0 Deep Sky Atlas

Uranometria 2000.0 Deep Sky atlas and field guide. Over 30,000 non-stellar objects, more than three times the number of any other atlas.

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What's Out Tonight?

The best seller from Ken Press, What's Out Tonight? has been significantly revised for 2000-2050 edition. New sections include mythology, double and variable stars and the Messier catalog.

$29.95