CROWS NEST OBSERVATORY

The books in this column can be purchased through fishpond in New Zealand and Australia. To order from within New Zealand please click on the associated image, for Australian orders there are separate links.

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• Eclipsing Binary Stars - Modeling and Analysis
  Josef Kallrath and Eugene F. Milone
   
  Publishing date: August 2009  
  Australian orders click here
   
  
• Introduction to Astronomical Photometry
  Edwin Budding and Osman Demircan
   
  Australian orders click here
   
  
• Astronomical Spectrographs and Their History
  John B. Hearnshaw
   
  Australian orders click here
   
  
• Stargazer - The Life and Times of the Telescope
  Fred Watson
   
  Australian orders click here
   
  
• Archives of the Universe
  100 Discoveries That Transformed Our Understanding of the Cosmos
  Marcia Bartusiak
   
  Australian orders click here
   
  
• Universe
  William J. Kaufmann and Roger A. Freedman
   
  Australian orders click here
   
  
• Observational Astrophysics
  Robert C. Smith
   
  Australian orders click here
   
  
• Astrophysical Techniques
  C. R. Kitchin
   
  Australian orders click here
   
  
• An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics
  Dale A. Ostlie and Bradley W. Carroll
   
  Australian orders click here
   
  
• Allen´s Astrophysical Quantities
  C. W. Allen and Arthur N. Cox
   
  Australian orders click here
   
  
• Astrophysical Formulae
  Kenneth R. Lang
   
  Australian orders click here
   
  
• Lists based on fields (fishpond.co.nz):
  • Astronomy: New Zealand - Australia  
    
  • Astrophysics: New Zealand - Australia  
    
  • Cosmology: New Zealand - Australia  
    

The books in this column are not available through fishpond.

• Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing
  Richard Berry and James Burnell
   
  Comes with CD-ROM: AIP for Windows 2.0
  Image Processing Software
   
  
   
  
• Exoplanet Observing for Amateurs Bruce L. Gary
   
  Excellent introduction to photometry
  FREE PDF DOWNLOAD!
   
  
   
  
• An Introduction to Astronomical Photometry using CCDs
  William Romanishin
   
  Excellent introduction to photometry
  FREE PDF DOWNLOAD!