The Haunted Observatory


Curiosities from the Astronomer's Cabinet

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By Richard Baum
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Richard Baum (Chester, England) is the director emeritus of the Terrestrial Planets Section and Mercury and Venus Section of the British Astronomical Association. A 2005 recipient of the Walter H. Haas Annual Award of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, he is the author of the acclaimed In Search of Planet Vulcan (with William Sheehan). He is also the recipient of the prestigious Walter Goodacre Medal and the Lydia A. Brown Medal of the British Astronomical Association. The International Astronomical Union named minor planet 7966 after him.

A World Rumoured Beyond; The Prescience of William Lassell; An Unresolved Mystery; Is There a Satellite to the Moon?; The Himalayas of Venus; Venus: "Like a Comet"; Bright Objects Near the Sun; Enigmatic Objects; Lichtflocken; The Wartmann Mystery; The Coleridge Effect; Epilogue; Reference; Glossary; Index.

Reviews

"...provides a rare treat for the patient reader...[a] well-told tale...Perhaps the biggest thing this book contributes is its efforts to build a desire on the part of readers to go look at the night sky for themselves. And surely that is worth a lot." -- Science Books & Films, April 1, 2008.

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