Astronomy with a Budget Telescope by Patrick Moore and John Watson Springer, £12.95, ISBN 1852335866 Reviewed by Mick O’Hare
THE timing of this book is ideal. With all the money spent on presents and food over the holiday season, the only way many of us will be looking through a telescope at the crisp, winter night sky will be by sticking to a tight budget.
Patrick Moore’s name will help to sell Astronomy with a Budget Telescope to budding astronomers, and his chapters on where to point your telescope are invaluable to the first-timer, but it’s John Watson’s technical expertise that provides the bones of the…
