Patrick Moore's Astronomy: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself

Patrick Moore's Astronomy: A Complete Introduction is a comprehensive guide to understanding what is happening in the night sky.Written with infectious enthusiasm by the late Sir Patrick Moore and updated by Percy Seymour, you will investigate the sun, the moon, the planets, comets and stars and learn how to observe them. This comprehensive guide, complete with star charts, maps out the skies, quickly giving you the essentials of astronomy and the building blocks for taking your understanding further.Whether you are new to astronomy, an amateur astronomer or a student facing an exam Patrick Moore's Astronomy: A Complete Introduction is your essential guide.Sir Patrick Moore was a legendary British astronomer, writer, broadcaster and presenter. He is credited as having done more than any other to raise the profile of astronomy with the British public. He was a former president of the British Astronomical Association and the co-founder and former president of the Society for Popular Astronomy. He wrote over 70 books on astronomy, all of which he typed on his 1908 Woodstock typewriter. He presented all but one episode of The Sky at Night since it began in April 1957.Dr Percy Seymour was Senior Lecturer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and then Principal Lecturer in Astronomy at Plymouth University. He has taught for the Open University and the University of the Third Age. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, a Member of the Institute of Physics, and has also been a Member of two special commissions of the International Astronomical Union - on The Interstellar Medium and Astronomy Education.