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 Most books on astronomy have sections on double and multiple stars, and there are some specialist volumes worth a look. Bob Argyle, current President of the Webb Society (which has an active double star section), has edited a comprehensive book on observing and measuring double stars. It’s in the AAQ library and you can find a review of it in the Library section. Although quite technical, it has a good introduction to double star astronomy, why they are worth observing, and some history of double star observers. It’s well worth the read.
The bi-monthly Sky and Space magazine has a double star column authored by Richard Jaworski. And there are many good web sites. Go to the Sky and Telescope site at http://skytonight.com/, enter “double star” in the query box at the top, hit “Go”, and it will direct you to a number of interesting and informative double star articles. A new quarterly journal of double star observations can be found at http://www.jdso.org/. Book References- Argyle, Bob. Observing and measuring visual double stars. Springer, 2004
- Burnham’s Celestial Handbook. Dover, 1978.
- Haas, Sissy. Double Stars for Small Telescopes: More Than 2,100 Stellar Gems for Backyard Observers. Sky Publishing, 2006.
- Hartung’s Astronomical Objects for Southern Telescopes, 2nd Ed., revised by David Malin and David Frew, Melbourne University Press, 1995.
- Menzel, Donald and Pasachoff, Jay. A field guide to the stars and planets. 2nd Ed. revised, Houghton Mifflin, 1983.
- Mullaney, James. Double and multiple stars, and how to observe them. Springer, 2005.
- Norton’s Star Atlas, 19th Ed. ed. Ian Ridpath, Prentice Hall, 1998
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