Exploring The Night Sky With Binoculars
In a joint review with Guy Otwell'sTo Know the Stars"These books complement each other; each is a guide to the night sky, visually of immediate and lasting help, pedagogically no less than gifted..."If you know your way a little with unaided eye about the night sky, the next step is the use of a good pair of binoculars.  A steady hand makes a powerful aid to astronomical exploration out of the same instrument someone uses by day for watching football or seeking birds.  The Galilean wonders appear: the moon's craters, Jupiter's four moons, the pahses of Venus, swarms of stars in open clusters such as the Pleiades.  All the best (northern) sights are nicely mapped and described here, with the season for each, and the paintings quite accurately evoke just what you will see.  A dark sky is the most difficult requirement for the marvelous sight of several external galaxies...." --Scientific American, December 1984--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.