| Title | Author(s) | Votes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Planet Observer's Handbook | Fred W. Price | 5 | |
| Atlas of the Moon | Antonin Rukl | 6 | "indispensable"
Note! This is temporarily out of print -- Sky Publishing took over the rights from Kalmbach. It is hoped that it will be back in print soon, perhaps in early 2002. In the meantime, you might be able to find a used copy. |
| The New Atlas of the Universe | Patrick Moore | 1 | |
| Observing and Photographing the Solar System | Dobbins, Parker and Capen | 4 | |
| The Planet Jupiter | Peek | 1 | "too detailed for most readers", "dated" |
| The Planet Saturn | Alexander | 3 | "too detailed for most readers", "dated" |
| The New Solar System | Kelly Beatty, Carolyn Petersen, and Andrew Chaikin | 3 | |
| Solar Astronomy Handbook | Beck et al | 1 | |
| The Geology of the Terrestrial Planets | Michael H Carr | 1 | "has everything", out of print |
| A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings | Harold Hill | 1 | "beautiful sketches" |
| The Moon, an observing guide to backyard telescopes | ? | 1 | |
| Hatfield Lunar Atlas | ? | 1 | |
| Seeing the Solar System | Fred Schaff | 1 | |
| RASC Observers Handbook | Royal Astro. Soc. of Canada | 1 | "full of all kinds of info", "indispensable" |
| Observing the Moon | North | 1 | |
| Observing the Moon | Wlasuk | 1 | |
| The Amatuer Astonomer's Handbook | Sidgwick | 1 | mostly about hardware; possibly "Observational Astronomy for Amateurs" instead? |
| Handbook for Planetary Observers | Gunter Roth | 1 | |
| Astronomy a Handbook | G.D. Roth | 1 | |
| A Complete Manual of Amateur Astronmy | P.Clay Sherrod | 1 | "inspired me to obtain some of the A.L.P.O observing manuals" |
| The Giant Planet Jupiter | John H. Rogers | 1 | "updates and replaces Peek" |
| High Resolution Astrophotography | Jean Dragesco | 1 | "the finest book ever written on the subject" |