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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2019welcome to the libraryI remember having the Red Rose Tea booklet called The Space Age/L'âge
Spatial when I was 7 or 8 years old, when we lived in Orangeville,
Ontario, circa 1971. That might have been the first astronomy or science-themed
book I received. Not including Verne's Twenty Thousands Leagues
Under the Sea. Since then, I've collected (accumulated?) many
astronomical books and countless magazines as well as atlases and
planispheres. And I regularly use a couple astronomy programs on my
There are many books I want to read. I borrow these titles from friends, peers, or the local library.
THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2019atlases and mapsSky & Telescope's Messier Card. Massachusetts: Sky Publishing Corporation, 2003.
Sky & Telescope's Pocket Sky Atlas. Roger W. Sinnott. Massachusetts: Sky Publishing Corporation, 2006.
Star Atlas booklet. Drs. Jacqueline & Simon Mitton. Ontario: Prentice-Hill of Canada, 1979.
Sky Atlas 2000.0. Wil Tirion. Deluxe Version (bound, black on white, with some colouring for objects). Reprinted 1989. Massachusetts: Sky Publishing Corporation, 1981.
Sky Atlas 2000.0. Wil Tirion. Desk Version (unbound, black on white). Massachusetts: Sky Publishing Corporation, 1981.
Sky Atlas 2000.0. Wil Tirion. Field Version (unbound, white on black). Massachusetts: Sky Publishing Corporation, 1981.
The Cambridge Double Star Atlas. James Mullaney & Wil Tirion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. (First edition.)
New Atlas of the Moon book. Thierry Legault & Serge Brunier. Richmond Hill: Firefly Books, 2006. Stap Maps booket. Victoria: The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, 1956.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2018books and bookletsAll About Telescopes. Fifth Edition, 1981. Sam Brown. New Jersey: Edmund Scientific Co., 1967. Softcover. Amateur Telescope Making. Books One, Two, & Three. Albert G. Ingalls, editor. New York: Scientific American, 1974. Astronomical Sketching, A Step-By-Step Introduction. Richard Handy, David B. Moody, Jeremy Perez, Erika Rix, Sol Robbins. New York: Springer, 2007. Astronomy | 365 Days. Jerry T. Bonnell & Robert J. Nemiroff. New York: Abrams, 2006. Astronomy Data Book. Revised edition. J Hedley Robinson & James Muirden. Trowbridge & Esher: Redwood Burn Limited, 1979. Astronomy: The Evolving Universe. Third edition. Michael Zeilik. New York: Harper & Row, 1982. Astrophotography for the Amateur. Reprinted. Michael Covington. Cambridge, Great Britain: Cambridge University Press, 1986. The Backyard Astronomer's Guide. Terence Dickinson & Alan Dyer. Ontario: Camden House Pub, 1991. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. Stephen W. Hawking. New York: Bantam Books, 1988. Build Your Own Telescope. Richard Berry. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985. * Choosing and Using a Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope: A Guide to Commercial SCTs and Maksutovs. 4th printing 2004. Rod Mollise. London: Springer-Verlag, 2001. The Comet Book: A Guide For The Return Of Halley's Comet. Robert D Chapman, John C Brandt. California: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc., 1984. * A Complete Manual of Amateur Astronomy: Tools and Techniques for Astronomical Observations. P Clay Sherrod, Thomas L Koed. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1981. Softcover. Cosmos. Carl Sagan. New York: Random House, 1980. double stars for small telescopes: More Than 2,100 Stellar Gems for Backyard Observers. Sissy Haas. Massachusetts: Sky Publishing Corporation, 2006. An Easy Pocket Star Guide for Beginners. H.R. Kingston, compiler. London: University of Western Ontario, 1947. Encyclopedia of Space. Linda K. Glover. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2004. The End of Night. Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light. Paul Bogard. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2013. Entering Space, An Astronaut's Odyssey. Joseph P. Allen, Russell Martin. New York: Stewart, Tabori, and Chang. 1985. Full Moon. Michael Light. New York: Knopf, 2002. Galaxies. Timothy Ferris. New York: Steward, Tabori, & Chang Publishers, 1982. Gravity, Black Holes and the Universe. Iain Nicolson. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1981. * How to Make a Telescope. Jean Texereau. Translated and adapted by Allen Strickler. New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1963. Soft cover. How to Make a Telescope. Second English Edition. Jean Texereau. Translated and adapted by Allen Strickler. Virginia: Willmann-Bell, Inc., 1984. Hardcover. Hubble Imaging Space and Time. David Devorkin & Robert W. Smith. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2008. Life and Death of Stars, The. Donald A Cooke. Random House, 1985. Looking Up, A History of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. R Peter Broughton. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994. Out of print; available in PDF. Moonshadow: The Story of the Total Eclipse. Terry Manners. London: Chameleon, 1999. Donated to the RASC Toronto Centre Troyer library. The New Atlas of the Universe. Patrick Moore. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1988. The New Universe Here Now and Beyond. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2010. Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars. Second edition. R.W. Argyle. New York: Springer, 2012. Observing Visual Double Stars. Second printing. Paul Couteau. Translated by Alan Batten. Boston: MIT, 1982. Soft cover edition. Originally published in France in 1978. Orbit: NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth. Jay Apt, Michael Helfert, Justin Wilkinson. National Geographic Society, 1996. Our Universe, National Geographic Picture Atlas of. Roy A. Gallant. Washington: National Geographic Society, 1980. The Planets. Dava Sobel. USA: Viking, 2007. Practical Skywatching, The Nature Companions. David Levy & John O'Byrne, consultants. Photoshop Astronomy. Second Edition. With DVD. R. Scott Ireland. Richmond, Virginia: Willmann-Bell, 2011. Salyut Orbital Stations. Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1975. Seeing and Believing: The Story of the Telescope, or How We Found Our Place in the Universe. Richard Panek. London: Fourth Estate, 1998. Skyguide: A Field Guide to the Heavens. Revised edition. Mark R. Chartrand. New York: Golden Press, 1990. The Sky is Your Laboratory: Advanced Astronomy Projects for Amateurs. Robert K. Buchheim. Berlin: Springer, 2008. Skyways Astronomy Handbook for Teachers. Mary Lou Whitehorne. Toronto: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 2003. Contributed to the addendum. The Space Age. Henry C. King, curator. Ontario: Brooke Bond Canada Limited, 1969. Missing cards 2, 5, 10, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 24, 25, 26, 29, 42, 44, and 45. Cards 1 and 27 are in rough shape... Space: The Once and Future Frontier. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2008. Splendors of the Universe: A Practical Guide to Photographing the Night Sky. Terence Dickinson & Jack Newton. Ontario: Firefly Books Ltd., 1997. the Starlore handbook: An Essential Guide to the Night Sky. Geoffrey Cornelius. Ontario: press élan, 1997. Turn Left at Orion: a hundred night sky objects to see in a small telescope—and how to find them. Third edition. Guy Consolmagno & Dan M. Davis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. The Urban Astronomer's Guide. Rod Mollise. London: Springer-Verlag, 2006. We Reach the Moon. Third printing. John Noble Wilford. New York: Bantam Books, 1969. You Are Here. Chris Hadfield. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2014.
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2020periodicalsOmni. Magazine. New York. Multiple issues from 80s. Observer's Handbook. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Older editions lost or missing. Current editions: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. night sky: backyard astronomy for everyone. Magazine. Massachusetts: Sky Publishing Corp., Sep/Oct 2005. Sky & Telescope. Magazine. Massachusetts: Sky Publishing Corp., Dec 1999; Apr 2001; May 2007; Jul 2007; Jan 2010; Sep 2012; Aug 2017 (with my double star photo); Jan 2019; Jan 2020. Astronomy. Magazine. Wisconsin: AstroMedia Corp., Aug 1981. Astronomy. Magazine. Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing Corp., Aug 1981; Sep 1999; Dec 1999; Jan 2010; Jul 2011. Discover. Magazine. New York: Nuena Vista Magazines, May 2002, cover Article: Is There Life on Europa?; Jun 2001, cover Article: Supernova in a Can. SkyNews. Magazine. Ontario: SkyNews Inc.
Sky at Night. Magazine. Bristol: Bristol Magazines Ltd., Jan 2008. National Geographic. Magazine. Jul 2004, sun bursts; Dec 2009, Are We Alone? Journal. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Various issues kept since 2007 to present. RASC members have access to the entire catalogue. Canadian Geographic. Magazine. Oct 2014, Canada in Space. 2013, Solar Storm. FUTURE. Magazine. New York: FUTURE Magazine Inc. Issue #1, Apr 1978, through #8, Feb 1979. Sister publication to Starlog. FUTURE LIFE. Magazine. New York: FUTURE LIFE Magazine Inc. Issue #9, Mar 1979, through #31, Dec 1981, except for issues #11 and #24.
SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 2007planispheresStars in Your Sky. George Lovi, Suzanna P. Kane, David M. Seager, Robert C. Firestone, & Richard S. Wain. National Geographic Society, 1980. Glow-in-the-Dark Star Finder with Zodiac Dial. USA: 1995. The New-Way Star Map. London: University of Western Ontario, 1947. RASC IYA Star Finder by Ron Macnaughton, English and French, print your own, based on the NRC planisphere, 2009.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2019calendarsRASC. Several years incl. 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. Images by society members. Celestial Atlas of Harmony appointment calendar. Andreas Cellarius. British Library. 2005. Skywatchers 09. Stan Shadick. Saskatchewan. 2009. Epcot SkyCalendar. The Abrams Planetarium, Stephan Van Dam. 1993. Large format. SkyNews Astronomy Calendar 2012. Featuring Canadian astrophotographers, of course. Presented by Sigma.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2019other materialsTelescope Making. Magazines, 1 through 33. Wisconsin: AstroMedia Corp., 1981. How to Build Your Own Observatory. Reprints from Telescope Making magazines. Richard Berry, Robert E. Cox, & Katherine M. King. Wisconsin: AstroMedia Corp., 1981. How to Build a Dobsonian Telescope. Reprints from Telescope Making magazines. Wisconsin: AstroMedia Corp., 1981. Stargazing Journal. Clarkson Potter/Random House Inc. Map of the Moon and Map of the Planets. Rand McNally, 1958. Telescopes You Can Build. Reprinted, 1980. New Jersey: Edmund Scientific Co., 1963. Softcover. Earth's Moon poster. 1969. National Geographic. 50 Greatest Moments of the Space Age. The Air & Space Smithsonian magazine. 2019.
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2020software applicationsI have used various mobile apps and full software applications over the years. Some of these are quite old now, obsolete themselves, or would only work on obsolete devices. Procyon X Pro. Version 1.13. Psion/EPOC operating systems. Pedro M.G. van Can & John S. Sussenbach. Bunde: Vampire Vengeance, 1994. Updated 2007 to correct Saturnian moon calculations.
RedShift. Version 2. Macintosh and Windows operating systems. Nick Maris. Maris Multimedia, 1995.
Cartes du Ciel. Versions 2.76 and 4.2. Windows. Patrick Chevelley. Astro-PC, 2004, 2019.
Stellarium. Windows versions 0.9.x, 0.10.x, 0.11.x, 0.12.x, 0.13.x, 0.14.x, 0.15.x, 0.18.x, 0.19.x. Linux version 0.10.5. Fabien Chéreau. SourceForge.net, 2007-2019.
Sky Screen Saver. Windows version 3.1b. John Walker. Fourmilab, 2006.
KStars. Version 1.2.5 (using KDE 3.5.8 running on ubuntu linux 7.1); Version 2.0.0 (using KDE 4.6.2 under ubuntu 11.04 natty). KStars Team. KStars KDE Education Project, 2007.
TheSky6 Professional Edition. Windows only. Licensed by the RASC Toronto Centre. Software Bisque, 2008.
Virtual Moon Atlas. Version 3.5c. Legrand and Chevalley. 2006.
SkyTools. Version 3.2k. Windows only. Greg Crinklaw. SkyHound, 2011-2018.
Where is M13? Version 2.3. Think Astronomy, 2008.
Astrolabe Clock. Version 1.11. TwoNineEight Software, 2015.
Distant Suns (Lite). Distant Suns, 2011.
SkySafari. Simulation Curriculum, 2015.
Solaris widget, version 1.1, on Google Play, 2016.
ISS Detector, version 2.0x, on Google Play, 2016.
Réduc, version 5, HFOSAF, 2016.
Clear Sky Droid (CSDroid), on Google Play, 2016
Polar Finder, version 1.34, on Google Play, 2016
Occult Watcher, version 4.6, from .net site, 2017
Mars Atlas, version 2.6.0, from iTunes, 2017.
Phases of the Moon, version 4.6.30, from M2Catalyst, 2018.
Astrospheric, web link, 2018.
AstroClock, version 0.0.91, on Google Play, 2018.
MySiderealTime, version 1.0, by WatWare, 2018.
Communicator, version 0.87-0.98, by Nova Astronomics, 2019-2020.
Twilight, by Urbandroid, 2019.
I regularly review software for my RASC Journal Binary Universe column. The apps reviewed are listed on my articles page. I do not strictly use all these apps.
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