RE: Books On Sat Observing

From: Ulrich Beinert (analemma@gmx.de)
Date: Fri Dec 08 2000 - 03:20:29 PST

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    Barnes and Noble online (www.bn.com) has an out-of-print search service, you
    might also want to try http://www.alibris.com/.
    
    Ulrich
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Robert Christy [mailto:bob@zarya.freeserve.co.uk]
    > Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 9:08 AM
    > To: Patrick Walsh
    > Cc: seeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com
    > Subject: Re: Books On Sat Observing
    >
    >
    > Is there no market for secondhand books in the US?
    >
    > Some of the best, and most useful, space and satellite books I've
    > picked up
    > in the past ten years have been from secondhand stores and book sales.
    > There seems to be plenty of s/h dealers on the Internet.
    >
    > I would suggest adding King-Hele's "Satellites and Scientific
    > Research" to
    > the list, together with Howard Miles' "Artificial Satellite
    > Observing". Also there
    > are two versions of "Observing Earth Satellites".
    >
    > Regards
    > Bob Christy
    >
    > On 7 Dec 2000, at 21:26, Patrick Walsh wrote:
    >
    > Hi Everyone,
    >    I was thinking of asking for a book on orbital
    > mechanics/sat observing for christmas.  What would you
    > recommend?  I see that the most recommended is
    > _Observing Earth Satellites_ by King-Hele, but that is
    > out of print.  Another more recently published book
    > ('92) by King-Hele called _A Tapestry Of Orbits_ is
    > still in print, but it costs eighty bucks at Amazon,
    > (!!!) and I don't even know if it has the stuff I'm
    > looking for.  So could anyone recommend a relatively
    > cheap book (like under fifty bucks) that teach me
    > something about this hobby and let me understand more
    > of the technical stuff that is talked about here?
    > Thanks a lot!
    >
    > Clear skies,
    > Patrick
    >
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