Patrick Moore's Yearbook of Astronomy 2012

Sir Patrick Moore's remarkable 50-year tenure?on?Yearbook of Astronomy is celebrated in this edition?with a selection of the best writing to have appeared in its pages and a special picture section showing the most important and astonishing astronomical photographs from the era. It also contains all of the usual excellent features: articles by some of the world's top astronomers, an authoritative collection of charts and astronomical data, and a month-by-month guide to events in the coming year?planets, eclipses, comets, meteors, nebulae, and phases of the moon.

Sir Patrick Moore is a former president of the British Astronomical Association, cofounder and former president of the Society for Popular Astronomy, and the author of more than 70 astronomy books, including Cambridge Guide to Stars and Planets, Oxford Astronomy Encyclopedia, and Space: The First 50 Years. John Mason MBE is a world authority on astronomy and has coedited the Yearbook of Astronomy with Patrick Moore for more than 10 years.