Grab 'n' Go Astronomy

Dr. Neil English has a BSc in Physics and Astronomy, and also a PhD in Biochemistry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a regular contributor to Astronomy Now (the UK’s major astronomy magazine), as well as to Ireland's Astronomy & Space. Neil’s astronomical images have been published in various magazines and journals, including a full page in the June 2006 issue of Astronomy. Neil has, and continues to, make contributions to Cloudy Nights in the form of several detailed telescope reviews. He is the author of Guide to Mars (Pole Star Publications, 2003) and he has a number of books published by Springer, including Classic Telescopes, Choosing and Using a Refracting Telescope and Choosing and Using a Dobsonian Telescope. Neil currently has (among other instruments) a large 12-inch Dobsonian, which he uses on the darkest, steadiest nights at his home in rural Scotland.

• Part I: Grab ‘n’ Go Equipment.- Grab ‘n’ Go Refractors.- Grab ‘n’ Go Dobsonians.- Grab ‘n’ Go Catadioptrics.- The Binocular Universe.- Grab ‘n’ Go Mounts.- Ancillary Equipment for Small Telescopes.- Part II: Grab ‘n’ Go Observing.- Sol Invictus.- Lunar and Planetary Observing.- Double Star Observing.- Observing Open and Globular Clusters.- Realm of the Nebulae.- Variable Star Observing.- Observing Galaxies.