The sky's the limit in the fascinating book Our Neighbor Stars: Including Brown Dwarfs. The book presents all known information on the 100 stars nearest Earth, as well as the brown dwarfs within the range covered by these stars. Learn where (and whether) the stars are visible in the sky, who discovered them and how they were discovered. Read all about the stars' sizes, colors, presence of any planets, and the constellations where the stars are located. All the information is indexed, so particular types of stars can be easily found. About the Author: Thomas Wm. Hamilton has wanted to work in...

Thomas Wm. Hamilton's latest book Astronomical Numbers provides most of the commonly referenced and used numbers in astronomy. This includes the diameters of the sun, all the planets, and major moons, distances of orbits, magnitude scales, frequency of eclipses, the five different kinds of lunar month, and more. To maximize usefulness, all values are in both English units (e.g. miles) and metric (e.g. kilometers), and provide conversions for units commonly used in astronomy, such as the astronomical unit, lightyear, and parsec. Says the author, "There is a real need for a convenient and quick...