Table of Contents: “... of dust -- V: Comets -- Giant comets and human culture -- An exceptional cosmic influence and its bearing on the evolution of human culture as evident in the apparent early development of mathematics and astronomy -- VI: Panspermia -- Panspermia according...”

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Table of Contents: “... System -- 11 The Comets -- 12 The Sun -- 13 The Celestial Sphere and Time -- 14 The Stars -- 15 Gas, Dust, Stars and Variable Stars -- 16 Stellar Evolution -- 17 Brown Dwarfs and Extra-Solar Planets -- 18 Violent Stars -- 19 The Galaxies -- 20 Quasars, Active...”

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Table of Contents: “...Celestial Phantoms -- Comets Unveiled -- Comets in Vision -- Visual Practices -- Comets in Camera -- Comets and Computers -- Comets in Close-up -- Improving Your Image -- Advanced Research -- Recent Great Comets....”

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Table of Contents: “... an Equatorial Mounting -- Observing the Solar System -- The Moon -- The Sun -- The Planets -- The Asteroids -- Comets -- Observing the Stars and Galaxies -- Locating Stars -- Star Colours -- Spectral Classes -- Double Stars -- Multiple Stars -- Variable Stars -- Star...”

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Table of Contents: “...The 1995–2002 Long-Term Monitoring of Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) at Radio Wavelength (CP) -- Large-Scale Structures in Comet Hale-Bopp. Latitudinal Variations and Monster Disconnection Event (CP) -- Modelling of Shape Changes of the Nuclei of Comets C...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- The Ionosphere and Space Weather -- The NOAA Space Weather Scales -- Asteroids, Comets, Meteroites -- Space Debris....”

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Table of Contents: “... Techniques -- Preparation -- Polar vs Alt/Az -- Locating Objects -- Things To Be Aware Of -- Recording What You See -- 4 Objects -- The Moon -- The Sun -- The Planets -- Asteroids -- Comets -- Meteors -- Stars -- Variable Stars -- Double Stars -- Star Clusters...”

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Table of Contents: “.... The solar interior -- 45. The solar atmosphere -- 46. The active Sun -- 47. The solar wind -- 48. The heliosphere -- 49. The dusty heliosphere -- 50. The interaction of the heliosphere with the interstellar medium -- 51. Comets: coma and beyond -- 52...”

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Table of Contents: “... of periodic comet showers and mass extinctions on Earth -- The role of non-gravitational forces in decoupling orbits from Jupiter -- The cometary contribution to planetary impact craters -- Physical properties of planet crossing objects -- Distant comet...”

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Table of Contents: “... Magnetosphere -- Magnetically-Driven Planetary Radio Emissions and Application to Extrasolar Planets -- Radio Observations of Ions in Comet Hale-Bopp -- Rapid Measurements of Solar Wind Ions with the Triana Plasmag Faraday Cup -- Quasi-Thermal Noise Diagnostics...”

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Table of Contents: “... Emission with the Hegra Cherenkov Telescopes -- Variables Gamma Ray Sources, 1: Interactions of Flare Energetic Particles with Solar and Stellar Winds -- Variable Gamma Ray Sources,2: Interactions of Galactic Cosmic Rays with Solar and Stellar Winds -- Comets...”

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Table of Contents: “.... Microcraters on Lunar Surface Samples and the Lunar Ejecta and Micrometeorite Experiment -- VI. Experiments on Satellites and Space Probes -- VII. Important Results of the Dust Experiments PIA/PUMA and DIDSY on the Missions GIOTTO and VeGa to Comet Halley -- VIII...”

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