North G. Astronomy in Depth 2003

Textbook in PDF format

Astronomy in Depth fills the need for a textbook that covers pre-university level Astronomy courses (in the UK, the GCSE syllabuses) and provides numerical examples to help students. It is also written as a serious foundation in Astronomy for amateurs who want to take a more detailed approach than can be found in the bulk of introductory astronomy books.
Spaceship Earth
The Language of Starlight
The Moon
The Universal Force
The Inferior Planets
The Planet Mars
The Planet Jupiter
The Planet Satur
The Twilight Zone of the Solar System
The Debris of the Solar System
The Comets
The Sun
The Celestial Sphere and Time
The Stars
Gas, Dust, Stars and Variable Stars
Stellar Evolution
Brown Dwarfs and Extra-Solar Planets
Violent Stars
The Galaxies
Quasars, Active Galaxies and Cosmology