Customer Reviews
Well written and accessible - By: Christopher Clowes, 23 Sep 2004 
A huge (1400-odd pages) textbook printed on good paper with excellent diagrams & b&w photographs. No flashy colour plates, though; this is not one for your coffee table.
It is well-written & accessible to anyone with a modest grasp of calculus, providing an excellent introduction to the whole field: everything from Kepler's laws, through spectra, special relativity, stellar evolution, binary systems to galactic evolution & a brief introduction to cosmology.
The book is structured into sections & within each section are a number of chapters, each of which is a series of effective tutorials, typically building one upon the other.
(I purchased my copy near the beginning of a vacation to the UK, & found it so absorbing that I missed a good part of the countryside I had come to see, & considerably annoyed my family. Eventually,in Dublin, we agreed that Carroll & Ostlie would have to be consigned to a cardboard box & posted
home.)
Not over complicated and easily understood. - By: , 04 Apr 2002 
The book is detailed to the point that it doesn't bore you. It covers probably all the topics of Astrophysics that i never knew existed. It could benefit from color diagrams/photos just to keep you more focused, thats the only reason I gave it 4 stars.
Excellent, well written and comprehensive astrophysics book. - By: , 23 Nov 2000 The book contains material from almost every subjectin astrophysics, presentedin a way that keeps the readers interestin the subject. It also contains worked examples, which isn't all that commonin most astronomy books, who usually doesn't show the reader how to use his/her knowledge from physics/math. In all, an excellent book that also can be used as a source for further search into a particular subject, by pointing out refernce articles/book at the end of each subject, of both general & technical nature.
