Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, 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. To supplement all this is a variety of entertaining and
informative articles, a feature for which the Yearbook of Astronomy is
known.
Among the wide-ranging articles for the 2020 edition are 200 Years of
the Royal Astronomical Society, The Naming of Stars, Astronomical
Sketching, Dark Matter and Galaxies, Eclipsing Binaries, The First Known
Black Hole, and A Perspective on the Aboriginal View of the World.
Yearbook of Astronomy made its first appearance way back in 1962,
shortly after the dawning of the Space Age. Now well into its sixth
decade of production, the Yearbook is rapidly heading for its Diamond
Jubilee edition in 2022. It continues to be essential reading for anyone
lured and fascinated by the magic of astronomy and has a desire to
extend their knowledge of the Universe and its wonders.
Yearbook of Astronomy is indeed an inspiration to amateur and
professional astronomers alike, and warrants a place on the bookshelf of
all sky-watchers and stargazers.
