Observer's Guide to Planetary Motion

Dr. Dominic Ford is an experienced observer of the night sky and a regular contributor to the ‘Journal of the British Astronomical Association.’ He obtained his MSc in Physics from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2003 and a doctorate in Astrophysics (also from Cambridge) in 2008. He is a member of the Council of the British Astronomical Association, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a Trustee of the British Astronomical Association (as of August 2011). Dominic has written 58 meeting reports for ‘The Journal of the British Astronomical Association’ over the past ten years and is a regular monthly contributor to ‘the Naked Astronomy’ podcast. Currently he is employed as a post-doctoral Research Associate working on the Square Kilometre Array in the Astrophysics Group, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

• The Motion of the Planets.- The Outer Planets.- The Inner Planets.- Mars.- The Moon.- The Deep Sky.

From the book reviews: "This concise little primer ... takes a refreshing pragmatic approach to understanding the motions that any casual observer of the night sky will eventually notice. ... The book also contains some very useful tables listing several decades of lunar phases, eclipses, planetary transits, planetary configurations, etc. That alone makes it a reference well worth having long after the basics have been mastered. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." (T. D. Oswalt, Choice, Vol. 52 (6), February, 2015)