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SUNday, APRIL 4, 2010welcome 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?) over 26 astronomical books and countless magazines. I have 6 atlases and 3 planispheres. And I regularly use a couple astronomy programs on my palmtop, netbook, and desktop computers.
There are many books I want to read. I borrow these titles from friends, peers, or the local library.
MONday, MAY 31, 2010atlases 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. 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.
MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012books and bookletsAmateur 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. 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. Choosing and Using a Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope: A Guide to Commercial SCTs and Maksutovs. Rod Mollise. London: Springer-Verlag, 2001. 4th printing 2004. 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. 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. How to Make a Telescope. Jean Texereau. Translated and adapted by Allen Strickler. New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1963. 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. National Geographic Encyclopedia of Space. Linda K. Glover. 2004. National Geographic Space: The Once and Future Frontier. 2008. The New Atlas of the Universe. Patrick Moore. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1988. 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. 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. 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... 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.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2011periodicalsOmni. Magazine. New York. Multiple issues from 80s.Observer's Handbook. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Older editions lost. Current editions: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. 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. 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?
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.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2011calendarsRASC. Several years incl. 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. 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.
THURSday, FEBRUARY 17, 2011other 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.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 2011software applicationsProcyon 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. Version 2.76. Windows. Patrick Chevelley. Astro-PC, 2004.
Stellarium. Windows versions 0.9.x, 0.10.x, and 0.11.x. Linux version 0.10.5. Fabien Chéreau. SourceForge.net, 2007-2011.
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 3. Windows only. Greg Crinklaw. SkyHound, 2011.
Where is M13? Version 2.3. Think Astronomy, 2008.
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