Venus and Mercury, and How to Observe Them
Mercury and Venus - known as the "inferior planets" because they are closer to the Sun than the Earth is - have always been regarded as difficult and even dangerous targets for amateur astronomers. Recent advances in commercially-made instruments have, ho
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Peter Grego
Venus and Mercury, and How to Observe Them
ISBN: 978-0-387-74285-4
e-ISBN: 978-0-387-74286-1
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Dedication For Jacy, my daughter
Thanks to Mike Inglis for having asked me to write this book, and for his help and advice as the project got underway. All the staff at Springer in the UK and USA have worked hard to produce this book, and I am deeply grateful to them. My special thanks go to John Watson and Harry Blom. The image contributors to this book have been tremendously helpful and generous – I hope my text does justice to your work, and that others are inspired to observe Mercury and Venus.
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Peter Grego has been a regular watcher of the night skies since 1976. He observes from his garden in Rednal, UK, with a variety of instruments, ranging from a 127 mm Maksutov to a 300 mm Newtonian, but his favourite instrument is his 200 mm SCT. Grego’s primary interests are observing and imaging the Moon and bright planets, but he occasionally likes to ‘go deep’ during the dark of the Moon. Grego has directed the Lunar Section of Britain’s Society for Popular Astronomy since 1984, and since 2006 has co-ordinated the Lunar Topographical Subsection of the British Astronomical Association. He edits five astronomy publications – Luna the journal of the SPA Lunar Section, The New Moon, journal of the BAA Lunar Section, the Newsletter of the Society for the History of Astronomy, the SPA News Circulars and Popular Astronomy magazine. In addition, he writes and illustrates the monthly MoonWatch column in UK’s Astronomy Now magazine, is observing advisor and columnist for Sky at Night magazine, and maintains
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