Lackawanna Astronomical Society Library Observing Reference Books 1000+ The Amat Astro Field Guide to Deep-Sky Observing - Lorenzin Amateur Astronomer Handbook - James Muirden Amateur Astronomer Pathfinder - Colin Humphrey Astronomy - Ridpath Astronomy with a Small Telescope - Muirden Atlas of deep Sky Spleanders - Hans Vehrenberg Binocluar Astronomy - Cissen and Tirion Burnhams Celestial Handbook VOL I - softcover Burnhams Celestial Handbook VOL II - softcover Burnhams Celestial Handbook VOL III - softcover Celestrial Objects fr the Common Telescope Vol II - Rev T.W. Webb Complete Manual of Amateur Astronomy - Sherrod Celestial Sampler - Sue French Deep Sky Observing with a Small Telescope - Eicher Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook VOL 1 Double Stars Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook VOL 2 Planetray Nebula Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook VOL 3 Open & Glublars Clusters Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook VOL 4 Galaxies Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook VOL 6 Anonymous Galaxies Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook VOL 7 Southern Skies Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook VOL 8 Variable Stars Deep Sky Wonders _ Walter Scott Houston Double Stars for Small Telescopes - Sissy Haas Fallen Stars - Mike D. Reynolds Guide to the Stars - Peltiers Messier Marathon Observer's Guide - Don Machholz Messier Marathon - Harvard Pennington Messier's Nebula and Stars Clusters - Jones NightWatch - Dickinson NightWatch - Dickinson Petersons Field Guide to the Stars and Planets Planetary Nebula _- Steven J Hynes Practical Amateur Astronomy - Patric Moore Practical Skywatching - David Levy Seeing the Sky - Fred Schaaf Sharing the Sky - David Levy Star Hopping - Garfinkle Star Hunters - Dennis Mammana Star Maps for the Beginner - Levitt & Marshall StarList 2000 - Dibon-Smith Summer Stargazing - Dickinson The Backyard Astronomer's Guide - Dickinson and Dyer The Guide to Amateur Astronomy - Newton & Teece The Universe Next Store - Holt Touring the Universe through Binoculars - Harrington Universe Guide to Stars and Planets - Ridpath & Tirion Whats out There IHW Manual for Scientific Comet Studies Planet Observer's Handbook - Fred W. Price Guide to Observing the Moon - Enslow Observing the Moon - Gerald North The Messier Observers Handbook - O'Meare The Moon Observer's Handbook - Price The Modern Moon - Charles A. Wood Resource Web sites on the Internet (Photographs, Skecthes, Descriptions, Charts and Maps) General Google, Yahoo, Bing Picture Searchs Deep Sky http://www.astronomylogs.com/findercharts.html http://www.dibonsmith.com/menu.htm http://www.blackskies.org/ http://www.astronomyboy.com/saa/ http://www.astronomy-mall.com/Adventures.In.Deep.Space/ http://www.saguaroastro.org/content/Book_110BestOfNGC.htm http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/ http://www.elisanet.fi/jere.kahanpaa/astro/MACindex.html http://www.astrosurf.com/benoit/ngc.html http://www.saguaroastro.org/content/db/Book110BestNGC.pdf http://pages.sbcglobal.net/raycash/bestofh400.htm http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/xtra/marathon/marathon.html http://www.virtualcolony.com/sac/ http://www.deepskyobserving.com/ http://www.eastvalleyastronomy.org/observe.html http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/index.html http://www.astronomyclub.org/learn/Say_What.htm http://www.uv.es/jrtorres/index.html http://messier45.com/index.html http://www.regulusastro.com/regulus/sketches/sketch_plain.html http://www.galaxyphoto.com/ http://www.jupiter-jp.net/ike/English/indexeng.htm http://www.faintfuzzies.com/index.htm http://members.cox.net/m24/drawings/drawings.html http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html http://www.cosmic-voyage.net/ http://www.ngcicproject.org/ Double Stars http://www.munisingwebsites.com/lookum/doublelinks.html http://www.dibonsmith.com/orbits.htm http://edu-observatory.org/eo/double_stars.html http://home.pages.at/vollmann/ds.htm http://homepage.univie.ac.at/peter.wienerroither/pwafodse.htm http://pages.sbcglobal.net/raycash/85mult.htm http://users.compaqnet.be/doublestars/ http://www.astrosurf.com/beaudoin/%E9toiles.html http://www.budgetastronomer.ca/index.php?page=why-doubles http://www.carbonar.es/s33/33.html http://www.perezmedia.net/beltofvenus/archives/000438.html http://www.eaglecreekobservatory.org/eco/doubles/ http://www.microthele.it/astro/misurazioni/reportok/index.htm http://www.jdso.org/ Variable Stars http://www.aavso.org/publications/manual/ http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/us/peculiar2/carbon.htm Solar System http://www.lpl.arizona.edu./alpo/ http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html http://www.shallowsky.com/moon/hitchhiker.html http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Introduction http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/index.html Comets http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/icq/CometMags.html http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/Ephemerides/Comets/SoftwareComets.html http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/ http://www.skyhound.com/sh/comets.html http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/ http://www.fg-kometen.de/fgk_hpe.htm#comets http://www.aerith.net/comet/future-n.html Meteors http://www.imo.net http://www.amsmeteors.org/ http://www.namnmeteors.org/ Magazines Sky and Telescope http://www.skyandtelescope.com Astronomy http://www.astronomy.com Astronomy Now http://www.astronomynow.com Sky News http://www.skynews.ca The Astronomer http://www.theastronomer.org Amateur Astronomy http://www.amateurastronomy.com Web pages that have advice for beginners. Sky and Telescope http://skytonight.com/howto/visualobserving http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/astronomy/astro21/sandt/backyard.html Astronomy magazine http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=ps&id=6 Charts Abrams Planetarium http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/SkyCalendar/Index.html Sky Maps http://www.skymaps.com Buying a Telescope Ed Ting http://www.scopereviews.com/begin.html Jay Reynolds Freeman http://www.weatherman.com/BEGINNER.HTM Astronomy by Frank http://www.my-spot.com/whatkind.htm The Astronomical League http://www.astroleague.org/al/astrnote/astnot19.html Excelsis http://www.excelsis.com/1.0/catalog.php?categoryid=3 StarWare http://www.philharrington.net/ Astronomy Organizations The Astronomical League http://www.astroleague.org/al/astrnote/astnot19.html ALPO http://www.lpl.arizona.edu./alpo/ AAVSO http://www.aavso.org IDA http://www.darksky.org/darksky/