Re: Variable Star Book

[jg <jg@jgws.freeisp.co.uk>]

Tom Droege wrote:

> $75 for this thin little volume.  Inflation in
> the book biz, I think.


CUP astro stuff tends to be a bit expensive for what it is due to very
short print runs, I've also noticed before that USA prints don't add up
cost wise relative to UK prints for them, £45 != US$75

Then again, we're usually charged pound for dollar when USA published
books do manage to get into our bookshops, being usually fobbed off with
rip off mumblings about "shipping costs" and what have you.

Cheers

John G.


PS

That book is more or less all there is in print on that nowadays.  I
looked at my copy of Percy (ed) 'study of variable stars with small
telescopes' as recommended to Michael K for period analysis background
info, which he fortunately picked up for nought but a few bucks I
believe, coz there is actually bugger all of value in that equally slim
tome.

Arne once mentioned Hoffmeister's book, which I've only seen once
(loaned).  That is out of print, came out in the mid 1980's, and I'm
pretty sure was then a translation of an earlier German work (though I
believe translated by the authors).

As for measuring as opposed to analysing: there's still many a
"Hoffmeister variable" out there that people publish almost original
astrometry for and/or finally find out what it is in the odd IBVS even
today.