It also depends on your previous knowledge, what you want to do and what fascinates you most, e.g., observing (and then: e.g. meteors (no telescope), planets, asteroids, deep sky, binaries, variable stars, even radio!), photography, historical and cultural aspects, astrophysics (e.g. spectroscopy, computational simulation, ...), instrument building, ...
"Astronomy" with its several millennia of various activities is likely a too large term to be covered in a single text book. I agree with Barry to join a local club for a start, if possible. Also, lots of good stuff nowadays is online. Best regards and "Clear Skies" for practical activities, Georg On Di, 11.02.2014, 01:00, Barry Gerdes wrote: > Hi Jo > Your best solution is to find a local astronomy club, go to a meeting and > join. You will find people with like interests who will make the best > recommendations. > > Not knowing your location I can't recommend any special but astronomy > magazines from the stationers often have lists of clubs and contact > details. > > Barry > > Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:38:41 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Book advic please > > Hi AllI have always been interested in astronomy but only recently had > time to start really getting clued up. Is there a standard text book that > people get started with that anyone can recommend please? Any other advice > about ways of learning for a keen amateur would be greatly > appreciatedThanksJo > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel
