By Martin Mobberly. Here''''s'' a detailed introduction to the "nuts ''n'' bolts" of backyard astronomy! Mobberley, a distinguished British amateur, distills the wisdom and experience of generations of skygazers into an information-packed guide to telescopes, eyepieces, binoculars, mountings, CCD cameras, and other equipment available to today''''s'' amateur astronomer. He also covers film, filters, software, star atlases, and observatories--if it''''s'' in the amateur''''s'' arsenal, it''''s'' in this book!