title: Astronomy with a Home Telescope: The Top 50 Celestial Bodies to Discover in the Night Sky
author: Seth Penricke
description: <b><span>Seth Penricke</span></b><span> is a writer and teacher from the Bay Area. He helped build and test the VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) gamma-ray observatory in Mount Hopkins, Arizona, and did research on pulsar astronomy at Leiden University in the Netherlands. A former high school physics and astronomy teacher, he holds a bachelor's degree in astrophysics from Oberlin College and a master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University.</span><span></span>
zlib_text: ‘The best introduction to astronomy’
  The Journal of the British Astronomical Association
  ‘The best introduction to astronomy’
  The Journal of the British Astronomical Association
  ATLAS OF THE
  UNIVERSE
  SIR PATRICKMOORE
  SIR PATRICKMOORE
  R E V I S E D  E D I T I O N
  R E V I S E D  E D I T I O N
  
  FOREWORD BY 
  PROFESSOR SIR ARNOLD WOLFENDALE, FRS 
  ASTRONOMER ROYAL 1991-94
  ATLAS OF THE 
  UNIVERSE
  R E V I S E D  E D I T I O N
  R E V I S E D  E D I T I O N
  SIR PATRICKMOORE
  
  Contents
  76
  Mars
  78
  Missions to Mars
  80
  Satellites of Mars
  82
  Map of Mars
  84
  Hubble Views of Mars
  85
  Mars from Global Surveyor
  86
  The Search for Life on Mars
  88
  The Pathfinder Mission
  89
  Spirit and Opportunity
  90
  Asteroids
  92
  Exceptional Asteroids
  94
  Jupiter
  96
  The Changing Face of Jupiter
  98
  Missions to Jupiter
  100
  Impacts on Jupiter
  102
  Satellites of Jupiter
  104
  The Galilean Satellites –from Galileo
  106
  Maps of Jupiter’s Satellites
  108
  Saturn
  110
  Rings of Saturn
  112
  Details of Saturn’s Rings
  114
  Missions to Saturn
  116
  Satell