My Astronomy Books

"Scout"-Bücher for Beginners (Oculum-Verlag) | Deep Sky Books for Beginners and More | Books/Maps for the Moon | DSO Books for the Advanced | Books for Binoculars (and More...) | Astrophotography and EAA | Astronomy Text Books | Miscellanies... | Links

On this page, I present a number of astronomy books that I bought myself (some of them as an online version). Most of my astronomy books are in German. This list can and does not claim to be complete in any way. It is merely a list of books that I "have come across" and may serve as suggestions for reading and practical use. I only list the books and refer readers to the publishers for more information.

Note: If you get into EAA and the world of "smart telescopes" as I did, most books lose some of their value for you because far too few objects are described in them. So you are "thrown back" to the internet (Wikipedia) and planetarium software. However, I still find the book Atlas für Himmelsbeobachter (2022) by Erich Karkoschka from the Kosmos publishers useful, especially as it presents photos of the DSO that are very similar to those that you take yourself with "smart telescopes". So you know better what to expect...

Note: See also the pages

Notes:

 

"Scout"Books for Beginners (Oculum-Verlag)

Quite elementary, but still useful in many cases, are the three small books planetscout, skyscout and moonscout from the Oculum publishing house (in German):

 

Deep Sky Books for Beginners and More

101 Himmelsobjekte, die man gesehen haben muss Atlas für Himmelsbeobachter Sternatlas für Kleinteleskope

101 Himmelsobjekte, die man gesehen haben muss (out of print; More)

Atlas für Himmelsbeobachter, the "Karkoschka" (More)

This book is interesting for both beginners and advanced users (in German):

Sternatlas für Kleinteleskope (Sternatlas für den visuellen Beobachter) (More)

This book is interesting for both beginners and advanced users (in German):

Deep Sky Reiseatlas and Deep Sky Reiseführer (More)

Right: 6th edition of the Deep Sky Reiseführer

These books are interesting for both beginners and advanced users (in German):

Turn Left at Orion (More)

 

Books/Maps for the Moon

moonscout Der Moonhopper Reiseatlas Mond

The following books/maps are in German:

 

DSO Books for the Advanced

Atlas für Himmelsbeobachter Sternatlas für Kleinteleskope Deep Sky Reiseatlas und Reiseführer

Atlas für Himmelsbeobachter, der "Karkoschka" (More)

This book is interesting for both beginners and advanced users (in German):

Sternatlas für Kleinteleskope (Sternatlas für den visuellen Beobachter) (More)

This book is interesting for both beginners and advanced users (in German):

Deep Sky Reiseatlas und Deep Sky Reiseführer (More)

These books are interesting for both beginners and advanced users (in German):

Messier Guide (More)

This books dedicates one page with maps and details for (nearly) each Messier object (in German, no nice photos!):

Herschel Guide (More)

This books dedicates mostly one page with maps and details to 100 Herschel objects and 10 further NGC/IC objects not observed by William Herschel (in German, no nice photos!):

Deep Sky Guide and Deep Sky Atlas (More)

Deep Sky Guide in slip case

Taken out of the slip case...

Sample pages

This DSO guide with 2000 DSO (no nice photos!) is targeted at the advanced hobby astronomer. There is also an English edition!

The Deep Sky Guide is complemented by the Deep Sky Atlas:

 

Books for Binoculars (and More...)

Big Binoscout

Second edition:

Astronomie mit Fernglas und Rich-Field-Teleskopen (Astronomy with Binoculars and Rich-Field Telescopes)

Right: Objects highlighted by me with color pen

 

Astrophotography and EAA

Astrophotography

I do not own the following book (I do not do "real" astronomy photography); it was recommended to me by a star friend:

EAA (Electronically Augmented Astrophotography)

To my knowledge, the are no books on this topic available yet. For articles and Websites, see my link page.

 

Astronomy Text Books

 

Miscellanies...

History of the telescope:

Book and Website for users of Celestron NexStar telescopes:

Map of the sky quality in Germany (more):

Map of the sky quality in Europe (more):

Year books for the night sky:

 

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