Books - Planets
Book Lists - TOC
Books - The Solar System
Books - Mercury and Venus
Books - Earth and Its Moon
Books - Mars
Books - Asteroids and Comets
Books - Jupiter
Books - Saturn
Books - Uranus and Neptune
Books - Pluto
Books - Exo-Planets
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Books - The Solar System
Jamey L. Jenkins
The Sun and How to Observe It
2008 - Springer - 232 p
none
Chris Kitchin
Solar Observing Techniques
2001 - Springer - 218 p
none
Rainer Beck, Heinz Hilbrecht,
Klaus Reinsch, and Peter Völker
Solar Astronomy Handbook
1995 - Willmann-Bell - 546 p
none
Peter O. Taylor
Observing the Sun
1992 - Cambridge University Press - 173 p
none
Philip Pugh
Observing the Sun with Coronado Telescopes
2007 - Springer - 326 p
none
Lee Macdonald
How to Observe the Sun Safely
2002 - Springer - 175 p
none
Martin Mobberley
Total Solar Eclipses and How to Observe Them
2007 - Springer - 201 p
1
Mark Littmann
Totality:
Eclipses of the Sun
2008 - Oxford University Press - 3rd ed. - 374 p
none
Mark Littmann
Totality:
Eclipses of the Sun
1999 - Oxford University Press - 2nd ed. - 268 p
4
Michael Maunder and Patrick Moore
The Sun in Eclipse
1997 - Springer - 212 p
none
Fred Price and John Westfall
The Planet Observer's Handbook
2000 - Cambridge University Press - 2nd ed. - 429 p
2
Gunter D. Roth and A.L. Helm
Handbook for Planet Observers
1970 -
none
Gunter Dietmar Roth
Stars and Planets: A Viewer's Guide
1998 - Sterling Pub. - 176 p
1
Michael E. Bakich
The Cambridge Planetary Handbook
2000 - Cambridge University Press - 346 p
none
J. Kelly Beatty, Carolyn Collins Petersen,
Andrew Chaikin, and Andrew L. Chaikin (eds)
The New Solar System
1998 - Cambridge University Press - 4th ed. - 430 p
4
J. Kelly Beatty, Carolyn Collins Petersen,
Andrew Chaikin, and Andrew L. Chaikin (eds)
The New Solar System
1990 - Cambridge University Press - 3rd ed. - 326 p
1
Paul W. Hodge
Higher Than Everest:
An Adventurer's Guide to the Solar System
2001 - Cambridge University Press - 247 p
1
Richard Corfield
Lives of the Planets:
A Natural History of the Solar System
2007 - Basic Books - 268 p
7
Mark Littmann
Planets Beyond:
Discovering the Outer Solar System
2004 - Dover Publications - 344 p
none
Tom Jones and Ellen Stofan
Planetology:
Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System
2008 - National Geographic - 224 p
3
William K. Hartmann
Moons and Planets
2004 - Brooks Cole; 5th ed. - 456 p
none
Moons and Rings
1991 - Time-Life Books - 144 p
4
Imke de Pater and Jack J. Lissauer
Planetary Sciences
2001 - Cambridge University Press - 544 p
none
Stephen Eales
Planets and Planetary Systems
2009 - Wiley-Blackwell - 196 p
none
Thomas A. Dobbins, Donald C. Parker, and Charles F. Capen
Introduction to Observing and Photographing the Solar System
1992 - Willmann-Bell -
none
John S. Lewis
Physics and Chemistry of the Solar System
1997 - Academic Press - rev ed - 608 p
none
Kenneth R. Lang
The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System
2003 - Cambridge University Press - 452 p
2
Katharina Lodders and Bruce Fegley
The Planetary Scientist's Companion
1998 - Oxford University Press - 400 p
none
Giles Sparrow
The Planets:
A Journey Through the Solar System
2007 - Quercus - 224 p
1
David Morrison
Exploring Planetary Worlds
1993 - Scientific American Library - 238 p
1
David Morrison
The Planetary System
1988 - Addison-Wesley - 519 p
1
Paul Weissman and Lucy-Ann McFadden (eds.)
Encyclopedia of the Solar System
1998 - Academic Press - 992 pages
none
Understanding the New Solar System:
From the Editors of Scientific American
2002 - Warner Books - 159 p
1
John R. Gribbin
Empire of the Sun:
Planets and Moons of the Solar System
1998 - New York University Press - 136 p
1
M. A. Barucci, H. Boehnhardt,
D. P. Cruikshank, and A. Morbidelli (eds)
The Solar System Beyond Neptune
2008 - University of Arizona Press - 632 p
none
Ellis D. Miner, Randii R. Wessen, and Jeffrey N. Cuzzi
Planetary Ring Systems
2006 - Praxis - 234 p
none
Dava Sobel
The Planets
2005 - Viking - 270 p
20
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Books - Mercury and Venus
Peter Grego
Venus and Mercury, and How to Observe Them
2008 - Springer - 266 p
1 - from MAS 2009
Michael Maunder and Patrick Moore
Transit:
When Planets Cross the Sun
1999 - Springer - 164 p
none
David Harry Grinspoon
Venus Revealed:
A New Look Below the Clouds
of Our Mysterious Twin Planet
1997 - Addison-Wesley Pub. - 355 p
9
Mikhail Ya. Marov and David Harry Grinspoon
The Planet Venus
1998 - Yale University Press -
none
Garry E. Hunt
The Planet Venus
1983 - Faber and Faber - 207 p
1
Patrick Moore
Venus
2002 - Cassell - 191 p
2
Ray Spangenburg
A Look at Venus
2001 - Franklin Watts - 112 p
3
Eric Burgess
Venus, an Errant Twin
1985 - Columbia University Press - 160 p
4
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Books - Earth and Its Moon
Consolidated Lunar Atlas
Virtual Atlas of the Moon
Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO)
Apollo Image Atlas
Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas
Inconstant Moon
Antonin Rukl
Atlas of the Moon
2007 - Sky Publishing - 224 p
none
Antonin Rukl
Atlas of the Moon
1992 - Kalmbach Books - 224 p
2
Antonin Rukl
Sky and Telescope's Field Map of the Moon
none
Antonin Rukl
Sky and Telescope's Mirror-Image Field Map of the Moon
none
Thierry Legault and Serge Brunier
New Atlas of the Moon
2006 - Firefly Books - large format - 128 p
3
Gerald Kuiper et al.
Consolidated Lunar Atlas
1967 - University of Arizona Press -
none
Gerald Kuiper et al.
Photographic Atlas of the Moon
1960 - University of Chicago Press -
none
David E. Bowker
Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
1971 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration - 675 plates
1
Dinsmore Alter
Pictorial Guide to the Moon
1973 - Crowell - 216 p
4
Patrick Moore
A Survey of the Moon
1963 - W. W. Norton - 332 p
1
Gerald North
Observing the Moon:
The Modern Astronomer's Guide
2007 - Cambridge University Press - 2nd ed. - 408 p
2
Gerald North
Observing the Moon:
The Modern Astronomer's Guide
2000 - Cambridge University Press - 381 p
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Jean Lacroux and Christian Legrand
Discover the Moon
2004 - Cambridge University Press -
none
Ewan A. Whitaker
Mapping and Naming the Moon
1999 - Cambridge University Press -
none
E. Cherrington
Exploring the Moon through Binoculars and Small Telescopes
1984 - Dover
1
Charles A. Wood
The Modern Moon: A Personal View
2004 - Sky Publishing - 232 p
none
Dana Mackenzie
The Big Splat:
Or, How Our Moon Came to Be
2003 - John Wiley and Sons - 232 p
8
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Neil Bone
Mars Observer's Guide
2003 - Firefly Books - 160 p
5
Ken Croswell
Magnificent Mars
2003 - Free Press - 208 p
2
William Sheehan
Mars:
The Lure of the Red Planet
2001 - Prometheus Books - 406 p
5
William Sheehan
The Planet Mars:
A History of Observation and Discovery
1996 - University of Arizona Press - 270 p
2
Paul Raeburn
Mars:
Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet
1998 - National Geographic Society - 231 p
16
Patrick Moore
Patrick Moore on Mars
1998 - Cassell; Sterling Publishing Co. - 222 p
2
Joseph Boyce
Smithsonian Book of Mars
2002 - Smithsonian Institution Press - 321 p
3
William K. Hartmann
A Traveler's Guide to Mars:
The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red Planet
2003 - Workman Pub. - 468 p
7
Michael Hanlon
The Real Mars
2004 - Carroll and Graf - 250 p
1
Peter John Cattermole
Mars:
The Story of the Red Planet
1992 - Chapman and Hall - 224 p
2
Clark R. Chapman
The Inner Planets:
New Light on the Rocky Worlds of Mercury,
Venus, Earth, the Moon, Mars, and the Asteroids
1977 - Scribner - 170 p
1
Isaac Asimov
Mars, the Red Planet
1977 - Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co. - 222 p
3
William K. Hartmann
The New Mars:
The Discoveries of Mariner 9
1974 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration - 179 p
1
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Books - Asteroids and Comets
Tom Gehrels and Mildred Shapley Matthews
Asteroids
1979 - University of Arizona Press - 1181 p
1
Curtis Peebles
Asteroids:
A History
2001 - Smithsonian - 280 p
none
Nick James and Gerald North
Observing Comets
2002 - Springer - 215 p
none
Stephen J. Edberg and David H. Levy
Observing Comets, Asteroids, Meteors,
and the Zodiacal Light
2008 - Cambridge University Press - 260 p
none
Neil Bone
Observing Meteors, Comets, Supernovae
and Other Transient Phenomena
1998 - Springer - 198 p
none
John S. Lewis
Rain of Iron and Ice:
The Very Real Threat of Comet and Asteroid Bombardment
1996 - Addison-Wesley - 236 p
1
Donald K. Yeomans
Comets:
A Chronological History of Observation,
Science, Myth, and Folklore
1991 - Wiley - 485 p
3
A. Dean Larsen
Comets and the Rise of Modern Science
1986 - Friends of the Brigham Young University Library -
none
John R. Spencer and Jacqueline Mitton (eds.)
The Great Comet Crash:
The Impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter
1995 - Cambridge University Press - 118 p
2
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John W. McAnally
Jupiter and How to Observe It
2008 - Springer - 218 p
none
Thomas A Hockey
Galileo's Planet:
Observing Jupiter Before Photography
1998 - Taylor and Francis - 236 p
none
John H. Rogers
The Giant Planet Jupiter
1995 - Cambridge University Press - 428 p
none
Garry E. Hunt
Jupiter
1981 - Rand McNally; Royal Astronomical Society - 96 p
5
Bertrand Peek
The Planet Jupiter:
The Observer's Handbook
1981 - Faber and Faber -
none
Carol Pohl, ed.
Jupiter
1973 - Ballantine Books - 265 p
1
Ben Bova
Jupiter
2001 - Tor - 368 p
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Julius Benton
Saturn and How to Observe It
2005 - Springer - 184 p
1 - from MAS 2009
Isaac Asimov
Saturn and Beyond
1979 - Lothrop, Lee and Shepard - 222 p
1
Laura Lovett, Joan Horvath, and Jeff Cuzzi
Saturn:
A New View
2006 - Harry N. Abrams, Inc. - 192 p
2
Tom Gehrels and Mildred Shapley Matthews (eds.)
Saturn
1988 - University of Arizona Press - 968 p
none
A. F. O'D. Alexander
The Planet Saturn
1962 - Dover -
none
David M. Harland
Cassini at Saturn:
Huygens Results
2007 - Praxis - 400 p
none
Robert Brown, Jean Pierre Lebreton, and Hunter Waite (eds.)
Titan from Cassini-Huygens
2009 - Springer - 600 p
none
David Morrison
Voyages to Saturn
1982 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration - 227 p
1
Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton
Titan Unveiled:
Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored
2008 - Princeton University Press - 296 p
2
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Books - Uranus and Neptune
Richard W. Schmude
Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto and How to Observe Them
2008 - Springer - 232 p
none
Salvatore Tocci
A Look at Uranus
2003 - Franklin Watts - 109 p
1
Garry E. Hunt
Atlas of Uranus
1988 - Cambridge University Press - 96 p
1
Ron Miller
Uranus and Neptune
2003 - Twenty-First Century Books - 80 p
3
Eric Burgess
Uranus and Neptune: The Distant Giants
1988 - Columbia University Press - 188 p
1
John Tabak
A Look at Neptune
2003 - Franklin Watts - 107 p
1
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Salvatore Tocci
A Look at Pluto
2003 - Franklin Watts - 107 p
1
David A. Weintraub
Is Pluto a Planet?:
A Historical Journey Through the Solar System
2007 - Princeton University Press - 254 p
11
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Pluto Files:
The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
2009 - W.W. Norton and Co. - 194 p
8
Clyde William Tombaugh
Out of the Darkness, the Planet Pluto
1980 - Stackpole Books - 221 p
1
David H. Levy
Clyde Tombaugh:
Discoverer of Planet Pluto
1991 - University of Arizona Press -
none
Alan Stern
Pluto and Charon:
Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System
1998 - J. Wiley - 216 p
1
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Ken Croswell
Planet Quest:
The Epic Discovery of Alien Solar Systems
1997 - Free Press - 324 p
2
Fabienne Casoli and Thérèse Encrenaz
The New Worlds:
Extrasolar Planets
2007 - Springer - 188 p
none
Bruce Dorminey
Distant Wanderers:
The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System
2001 - Springer - 360 p
2
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