Aspecial 50th anniversary edition of the one book that no stargazer should be withoutSir Patrick Moore's remarkable 50-year tenureonYearbook of Astronomy is celebrated in this editionwith 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.