Club Lending Library
Members may borrow for one month.
Send requests to: bac@cantordust.net
Pick up/return at monthly meetings
Angle of Attack
Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon
Mike Gray, 1992
Astronomical Sketching
A step-by-step introduction
Handy/Moody/Perez/Rix/Robbins, 2007
Binocular Astronomy, second edition
Crossen/Tirion, 2008
The Cambridge Star Atlas, fourth edition
Will Tirion, 2001
Cosmic Odyssey
How intrepid astronomers at Palomar Observatory changed our view of the universe
Linda Schweizer, 2020
Discover the Night Sky through Binoculars
Stephen Tonkin, 2018
Exploring the Moon
Through binoculars and small telescopes
Ernest Cherrington Jr, 1984
Extreme Stars
At the edge of creation
James Kaler, 2001
Forty Ways to Know a Star
Using stars to understand astronomy
Jillian Scudder, 2025
The Glass Universe
How the ladies of the Harvard College Observatory took the measure of the stars
Dava Sobel, 2016
Handbook of CCD Astronomy
Second Edition
Steve Howell, 2006
A Grand and Bold Thing
(The Sloan digital sky survey)
Ann Finkbeiner, 2010
How to make a Telescope
(classic book on building an 8 inch Newtonian, reprinted from the 1950s)
Jean Texereau, 1984
Inside the Star Factory
The creation of the James Webb Space Telescope
Gunn/Wanjek, 2022
The Last Stargazers
The enduring story of astronomy’s vanishing explorers
Emily Levesque, 2020
Light from the Void
Twenty years of discovery with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory
Arcand/Tremblay/Watzke/Weisskopf/Wilkes, 2019
The Milky Way
An autobiography of our galaxy
Moiya McTier, 2022
The Monthly Sky Guide, 10th edition
(Beginner’s observing guide)
Ridpath/Tirion, 2019
Neutron Stars
The quest to understand the zombies of the cosmos
Katia Moskvitch, 2020
Nightwatch, fifth edition
A practical guide to viewing the universe
Dickinson/Hewitt-White, 2023
Observer’s Guide to Stellar Evolution
(Stars to see in various stages of life)
Mike Inglis, 2003
Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope
Philip Pugh, 2012
Revealing the Universe
The making of the Chandra X-ray observatory
Tucker/Tucker, 2001
The Sirens of Mars
Searching for life on another world
Sara Johnson, 2020
The Sky is for Everyone
Women astronomers in their own words
Trimble/Weintraub, eds, 2022
The Sky is your Laboratory
Advanced astronomy projects for Amatuers
Robert Buchheim, 2007
The Smallest Lights in the Universe
(An MIT scientist’s memoir of exoplanet research, bereavement, and autism)
Sara Seager, 2020
Stargazer
The life and times of the telescope
Fred Watson, 2004
Star-Hopping for Backyard Astronomers
(Navigating through the sky by “hopping” one star at a time)
Alan MacRobert, 1993
Star Testing Astronomical Telescopes
A manual for evaluation and adjustment
Harold Suiter, 1994
Telescope Optics
A comprehensive manual for amateur astronomers
Rutten and van Venrooij, 1988
Things that go Bump in the Universe
How astronomers decode cosmic chaos
C. Renee´ James, 2023
Turing the Universe through Binoculars
Philip Harrington, 1990
Turn Left at Orion
A hundred night sky objects to see in a small telescope and how to find them
Consolmagno/Davis, 1995
Tycho & Kepler
The unlikely partnership that forever changed our understanding of the heavens
Kitty Ferguson, 2002
Unseen Universe
New secrets of the cosmos revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope
Caroline Harper, 2024
The Wild Dark
Finding the night sky in the age of light
Craig Childs, 2025
365 Starry Nights
An introduction to astronomy for every night of the year
Chet Raymo, 1982
50 Things to see with Binoculars in Space
John Read, 2025