The Northern Virginia Astronomy Club

The NOVAC Library

NOVAC maintains a library which covers a wide range of astronomy subjects. You can find a wealth of information to answer your questions, expand your observing skills, get more out of your equipment, and increase your enjoyment of Astronomy.

The library is presently located in our librarians home. For availability, please contact him off the contacts page. He can bring the selected items to the general meeting, or, you can make arrangements to come to his house. To check out books, you’ll need to show your NOVAC membership card. There’s a time limit of one month, and 4 books max per person.

We’re open for book donations… if you have duplicates or volumes no longer needed, consider the NOVAC Library.

Below is a list of the titles. For a complete list of authors, titles, year, condition and date acquired, click here.

Title

291 Doppelstern-Ephemeriden fur die Jahre 1975-2000

A Book of Planets for You

A Clementine Collection: Moonglow

A Dipper Full of Stars

A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets

A History of Astronomy

A Manual of Advanced Celestial Photography

A Science Odyssey

Alpha Centauri, The Nearest Star

Amateur Astronomer (Scientific American)

Amateur Astronomer's Catalog of 500 Deep Sky Objects, The

Amateur Astronomer's Handbook

Amateur Astronomer's Handbook: Guide to Exploring the Heavens

Amateur Astronomy Magazine 13 Spring 1997

Amateur Astronomy Magazine 14 Summer 1997

Amateur Scientist, the Complete Collection - CD ROM

Astronomers (Video Tapes-3), The

Astronomer's Stars

Astronomer's Universe, The

Astronomers, The

Astronomical Algorithms

Astronomical Formulae for Calculators

Astronomical Image Processing

Astronomical Telescopes and Observatories for Amateurs

Astronomy

Astronomy - A Self-Teaching Guide

Astronomy and Cosmology

Astronomy Café, The

Astronomy Now

Astronomy: the Evolving Universe 2nd Ed

Astrophotography

Astrophotography for the Amateur

Astrophotography II: Featuring the Techniques of the European Amateur

Astrophotography, A Step-by-Step Approach

Atlas of Comet Halley 1910

Atlas of the Solar System, The

Backyard Astronomer's Guide, The

Backyard Astronomer's Guide, The (Revised Edition)

Beginner's Guide to Amateur Astronomy

Brother Astronomer: Adventuresof a Vactican Scientist

Build Your Own Telescope

Build Your Own Telescope (autographed)

Burham's Celestial Handbook, vol 1

Burham's Celestial Handbook, vol 1 softcover

Burham's Celestial Handbook, vol 2

Burham's Celestial Handbook, vol 2 softcover

Burham's Celestial Handbook, vol 3

Burham's Celestial Handbook, vol 3 softcover

Cambridge Atlas of Astronomy, The

Cambridge Deep-Sky Album, The

Cambridge Photographic Atlas of the Planets, The

CCD Camera Cookbook, The

Celestial Charts

Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes

Change in the Weather, The

Choosing and Using a CCD Camera

Clyde Tombaugh, Discoverer of Planet Pluto

Collapsing Universe, The

Collimators and Collimation No. 9072

Comet

Comets

Cosmos

Cosmos VHS Video tapes

Deep Sky Field Guide to Uranometria 2000.0, The

Deep Sky Observer's Handbook v.1-8

Deep-Sky Object for Binoculars

Discover the Stars

Dream of Spaceflight, The

Evolution of Stars, The

Experimental Astronautics

Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars

Exploring the Southern Sky

Find the Constellations

Finder Chart of the Bright Telescope Objects

Fundamental of Astrodynamics

Galaxies

Galaxies and Quasars

Golden Book of Stars and Planets, The

Great Arc, the

Great Ideas and Theories of Modern Cosmology

Guide to Amateur Astronomy, The

Guide to Observing the Moon

Guide to the Stars: Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars

How and Why to Make a User- Friendly Sidewalk Telescope

How to Build Your Own Observatory

How to Choose Binoculars

How to Make a Telescope

How to Use an Astronomical Telescope

Hubble Atlas of Galaxies, The

I Can Read Read About Planets

Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Universe

Interstellar Matters

Light Pollution on MPT-2/2/00 VHS Video

Light-Hearted Astronomer, The

Lunar Atlas

Mag 5 Star Atlas

Man Probes the Universe

Managing Martians

Man's View of the Universe

Maps of the Heavens

Mathematical Astronomy for Amateurs

Membership Survey June - October 1994

Meteor Showers, A Descriptive Catalog

Miller Planisphere, 5"

Monthly Sky Guide, the

Near Planets, The

Nearby Galaxies Atlas

Nearby Galaxies Catalog

NGC 2000.0

Nightwatch

Observer's Handbook 2003

Observing Comets, Asteroids, Meteors…

Origins - Our Place in Hubble's Universe

Our Milky Way and Other Galaxies

Outer Space Photography for the Amateur

Patrick Moore's Armchair Astronomy

Perfect Machine-Building the Palomar Telescope, The

Planetary Nebulae: A Practical Guide and Handbook

Practical Astronomer, The

Quest for Comets, The

Return of Halley's Comet, The

Riddle of the Compass, the

Secrets of the Night Sky

Sky Catalogue 2000.0 vol. 1

Sky Catalogue 2000.0 vol. 2

Sky Observer's Guide, The

Skyshooting-Photography for the Amateur Astronomers

Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage, The

Space Mission Analysis and Design

Space Spotter's Guide, The

Spaceflight

Spaceshots: the Beauty of Nature Beyond Earth

Star Charts (Planisphere)

Star Clusters

Star Maps for Beginners

Star Names - Their Lore and Meaning

Star Ware

Star Ware 2nd Ed

Starry Room: Naked Eye Astronomy, The

Stars

Stars and Nebulas

Stars and Planets

Stars, The

Stonehenge Decoded

Study of Variable Stars Using Small Telescopes, The

Studying the 1998 Leonid Meteor Shower - Final Report

Summer Stargazing

Telescope Building VHS Video

Telescope Making - Cumulative Contents and Guide to Back Issues #1 (Fall 78) through #37 (Fall 89)

Telescope Making #35 Winter 1988/89

Telescope Making #36 Spring 1989

Telescope Making #37 Summer 1989

Telescope Making #40 Spring 1990

Telescope Making #41 Summer 1990

Telescope Making #42 Fall 1990

Telescope Making #43 Winter 1990

Telescope Making #44 Spring 1991

Telescope Making #45 Summer 1991

Telescope Making #46 Winter 1991

Telescopes for Stargazing, 3rd. Ed.

Telescopes You Can Build

Through Rugged Ways to the Stars

Through the Telescope

Tools of the Astronomer

Touring the Universe through Binoculars

Travelers in Space and Time

Turn Left at Orion

Unifying the Universe

Universe and Beyond, The

Universe Guide to Stars and Planets, The

Universe Next Door, The

Uranometria 2000.0 volume 1

Uranometria 2000.0 volume 2

Violent Universe

What's Up There?

Whole Shebang, The

Year-Round Messier Marathon, the

Your Guide to the Sky