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Astronomy & Astrophysics

Observer's Handbooks & Almanacs

Astronomical Almanac
Call Number: Ref QB8.G7 (Older editions shelved in stacks.)
Published jointly by the US and UK nautical almanac offices. An online version is available at http://asa.usno.navy.mil/.
Observer's Handbook / Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Call Number: Ref QB9 .R8
Yearbook of Astronomy
Call Number: Ref QB1 .Y39 (Older editions shelved in the stacks.)
Formerly known as Patrick Moore's Yearbook of Astronomy.
U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomy Portal

Reference Works

The Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia (1992)
Engineering and Science Library: Call # QB14 .A873 1992
Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 2nd ed. (2014)
A Companion to Astronomy and Astrophysics: Chronology and Glossary
A Dictionary of Astronomy, 3rd ed. (2018)
Encyclopaedia of Exoplanetary Systems
CNRS-LUTH, Paris Observatory
Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (2001)
Print also available at Call # Ref QB14 E534 2001
Encyclopedia of the History of Astronomy and Astrophysics (2013)
An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
An open access dictionary containing definitions of about 13,000 English entries, with their French and Persian equivalents.
Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2nd ed.
NASA Exoplanet Catalog
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus
An open access thesaurus that builds on the IAU Thesaurus.

Planets, Stars, and Stellar Systems, Vols. 1-6