Best Serious Intro Astronomy Book?

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Hi, I'm looking for the best introductory astronomy book that will describe,

in mathematical detail, the most important things about astronomy. I've seen

Astronomy Demystified etc... and them kinds of books are terrible, no substance at all.

I've also seen Meus Astronomical Algorithms and Weinberg's Cosmology

and they are too detailed.

Anything in between that's recommended?
I should add that I've read all the books like Hawking, Greene etc...

I'm talking about a university standard textbook that illustrates orbitals, and explains other things I haven't even thought of.
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Well I have books like;

Second Year Calculus: Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity

&

Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students

and I'm looking for books of these caliber. I have looked at reviews of the books you mentioned and they don't seem to be of this detail, unless I read bad reviews.
EDIT: Very true, I'm just getting tired of equations using 1A.U. that assume so much, but I don't want to spend months studying Kepler's algorithms lol, or maybe the more modern Meus.

Thanks anyway, I'll keep looking
Perhaps somebody has an idea today :p
 
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