Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2024 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. To supplement all this is a variety of entertaining and informative articles, a feature for which the Yearbook of Astronomy is known.
The Yearbook of Astronomy 2024 continues to be essential reading for anyone lured and fascinated by the magic of astronomy. It remains an inspiration to amateur and professional astronomers alike, and warrants a place on the bookshelf of all stargazers and watchers of the Universe.
Articles for the 2024 edition include:
- Recent Advances in Astronomy by Rod Hine
- Recent Advances in Solar System Exploration by Peter Rea
- Anniversaries in 2024 by Neil Haggath
- Astronomy in Antarctica by Michael Burton
- Things Fall Apart: Chaos in the Solar System by David Harper
- Male Mentors for Women in Astronomy by Mary McIntyre
- Communicating from the Edge of the Solar System by Peter Rea
- Skies over Ancient America by P. Clay Sherrod
- Tracking Older Artifical Satellites by Steve Harvey
- Inner Lives of Dead Stars by Matt Caplan
- Riccardo Giacconi: X-ray Astronomy Pioneer by David M. Harland
- The Astronomers’ Stars: In the Neighbourhood by Lynne Marie Stockman
- Mission to Mars: Countdown to Building a Brave New World: The Right Stuff at the Right Time by Martin Braddock
- A Triumvirate of Telescope Makers: Thomas Cooke, Howard Grubb and Alvan Clark by John McCue and John Nichol
Bursting with up-to-the-minute information, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2024 is, as ever, essential reading for anyone fascinated by the night sky.
Yearbook of Astronomy 2024 was released on 2 August 2023. It can be ordered directly from the publisher Pen & Sword Books Limited. Readers in the United States and Canada should order their copies from Casemate IPM. It is also available at Amazon and at other online book retailers.