Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2020 contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard astronomers and sky gazers everywhere to plan their viewing of the year’s eclipses, comets, meteor showers and minor planets as well as detailing the phases of the Moon and visibility and locations of the planets throughout the year. The 2020 edition of the Yearbook of Astronomy now includes diagrams showing the positions of Mercury and Venus at sunrise or sunset throughout each apparition, as well as finder charts for Uranus and Neptune.
Articles for the 2020 edition include:
- Astronomy in 2019 by Rod Hine
- Solar System Exploration in 2019 by Peter Rea
- Anniversaries in 2020 by Neil Haggath
- 200 Years of the Royal Astronomical Society by Sian Prosser
- The Naming of Stars by David Harper
- Astronomical Sketching by Steve Brown
- Dark Matter and Galaxies by Julian Onions
- Eclipsing Binaries by Tracie Heywood
- The First Known Black Hole by David Harland
- A Perspective on the Aboriginal View of the World by Greg Quicke
- ‘Oumuamua — Interstellar Interloper by Neil Norman
- Forgotten on the Moon by Bill Leatherbarrow
Bursting with up-to-the-minute information, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2020 is, as ever, essential reading for anyone fascinated by the night sky.
Yearbook of Astronomy 2020 is published by Pen & Sword Books Limited. It is also available online at Amazon and at other online book retailers.