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Old 22-January-2008, 05:57 PM
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We're looking for a good "Astronomy 101" textbook to read together - something at the level of maybe an Advanced Placement high school book or simpler college book. Can anyone make a recommendation? How about "Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium" by Pasachoff and Filippenko (he'd get a kick out of the fact that Filippenko is at Berekely where he wants to go to school - yes he's picked his undergrad school already!) Other thoughts?
Hi Tom and son! Welcome to BAUT.

That is a 5 star textbook, according to Amazon. It is available used, too.

I picked-up Jeff Hester's, et. al., 21st Century Astronomy textbook. It is very good, also.

I hope you both learn from interactions here in BAUT. As an amateur, I have learned most of what I know from the wonderfully knowledgeable here.
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