Martin Mobberley's Publications
Books, papers and magazine articles.
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ASTRONOMY BOOKS & ASTRONOMY ARTICLES
I have been writing articles on astronomy for as long as I can remember and gave my first astronomical talk (about Apollo 11) as a child, in 1969, at Cockfield School. My latest major BAA paper (written with the late Ken Goward of the SHA) reveals, for the very first time, the full astronomical life of the stage and screen comedian Will Hay. Prior to that we also wrote a history of the Bury St Edmunds Athenaeum Observatory and its Victorian telescope, which I first used, as a 12 year-old, in 1970. If you would like a pdf copy of the Will Hay paper or the Athenaeum paper, please send me an e-mail.
Between 1983 and 1991 I wrote 100 monthly articles on lunar photography in the BAA Lunar Section Circular. They proved to be very popular and I had loads of letters to answer! In 1994 Patrick Moore asked me to write a chapter in a book he was editing. The publishers (Springer-Verlag) liked the chapter and asked me to write others, as well as editing a book entitled Astronomical Equipment for Amateurs. I decided to write the whole book myself and it was published in late 1998. My second Springer book "The New Amateur Astronomer" was all about how to get into the new hi-tech era of digital astronomical imaging and discovery. New Amateur Astronomer has now been translated into Italian (!!) and the Italian edition was published in Autumn 2006. In early 2006 I completed a third book for Springer, called 'Lunar and Planetary Webcam User's Guide' which was printed in April 2006 and is available from Springer, Amazon and virtually every astronomy book supplier. An Italian version of that is also now available. My fourth Springer book "Supernovae and How to Observe Them" was published in February 2007. My 5th Springer book, called 'Total Solar Eclipses and How to Observe Them' went on sale in October 2007. A sixth Springer book entitled 'Cataclysmic Cosmic Events and How to Observe Them was published in 2008 and my seventh Springer book 'The Caldwell Objects and How to Observe Them' is due out in late 2009 .... I have also written several small children's Space books for 'Top That' publishing. The first two, 'Space Navigator' & 'Space' (Know How, Know Why) are shown at the top of this page. My third 'Top That' children's book, is called the Space Stickertastic Book! (See below right). Space (Know How, Know Why) is occasionally advertised in two forms with the same cover, but they are both the same, just that one is printed in the USA! I am a regular writer for the UK publication 'Astronomy Now' and my 'Tech Talk' column covers technical aspects of the hobby. I have also had dozens of articles published in the BAA Journal, The Astronomer magazine, BBC 'Sky at Night' magazine and Sky & Telescope. I have also given well over 200 talks to the BAA and other Astronomy organisations. From Nov. 1990-1999 and Jan 2002 to June 2006 I delivered monthly 'Sky Notes' at BAA London meetings. I tried to make these as entertaining and NON-politically correct as possible ! My first BAA talk was delivered at a BAA Lunar Section Meeting in Reading in 1981, following a request from Geoff Amery.
My first Springer book, Astronomical Equipment for Amateurs, plus Space Navigator and Space (Know How, Know Why), my first two children's Astronomy books.
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SELECTED ARTICLES
My monthly Astronomy Now 'Tech-Talk' Column plus....
2005 Sept - 2009 June: Countless articles.. eg:
Will Hay and his telescopes (April 2009 JBAA) Exotic Glass (Feb 2009 AN) The Many faced nebulae (Jan 2009 AN) E.E. Barnard (Dec 2007 AN) A Flat Field Box (Nov 2007 BBC) Diagonals/Dew Heaters (Nov 2007 BBC) Astrometry (Nov 2007 AN) Refractor Group Test (Sep 2007 BBC) Handling Raw Data (Aug 2007 AN) Averted Vision (Jul 2007 BBC) Go To Group Test (Jul 2007 BBC) Older 2005/2006 articles in Astronomy Now:-
Observing Asteroid Occultations.
Webcamming Mars & Observing the Moon.
Biogs of Gary Poyner & Guy Hurst. 2005 August: Swift-Tuttle Article 2005 July: 9P Tempel Deep Impact & Horace Dall
2005 April: At the limits of Totality
2005 February: A beginner's guide to planetary webcam imaging
2005 January: Comet Hunters: a dying breed?
2004 November: A planetary observer's telescope
2004 October: Finding the Apollo Landing Sites
BELOW: The covers of some of my most recent books with comments from reviewers and readers.
