Well, hall of everybody and welcome back to another edition of Telescope Man. Well, today we're in the hamchak again as usual and we're going to do another astronomy video. So, you listened to the last one. It was kind of a basic binocular astronomy, which you need to do a binocular astronomy. Today I'm going to point out a few books and other reading materials that you might want to procure, either at the library or by yourself your own copy. Anyway, we'll get into some books that are very helpful if you're going to get in and become amateur astronomers. So, let me give my glasses on and we'll start showing you a few books that might help you with a hobby. The first one I want to talk about is Barnes Celestial Handbook, an Observer's Guide to the Universe. It's a very popular book among amateur astronomers and really anybody that's just interested in the night sky. It's a two-volume set. Okay, so there's two volumes of it. And you can of course, all these books, I'm pretty sure I'll get you some links down below the video directly to them, but I'm pretty sure you can find them in any bookstore or on Amazon. Either way, they're so popular that I just can't believe they won't be on there. I didn't check ahead of time, but it would blow me away if you couldn't buy them on Amazon or in a bookstore or have more for you, since they're very popular, all these books that I'm going to show you. The first one is the two volume set of Barnes Celestial Handbook and virtually everything that you can possibly see and the night sky is illustrated here with photographs and a written description of the object. Very, very complete, all the constellations, all of them. And anyway, you can't go wrong with Barnes Celestial Handbook. So the other one that's kind of real popular with beginners is a book called Night Watch. Again, similar information to the Barnes Celestial Handbook, similar, not as much detail of course, color pictures, sections on the different kinds of telescopes, binoculars, how to view the night sky, suggestions on how to do that. And some star charts in there too with some objects denoted on that star chart. So pretty comprehensive for the beginner amateur astronomer. So this is being another book that I could recommend to you called Night Watch, a practical guide to view in the universe. Terrence Dickerson, Dickinson, Dickinson, I said that wrong, Dickinson. Alright, so Night Watch. And of course, if you like big books, then you've got to go out there and get you the night sky observer's guide. The night sky observer's guide. It's two volumes, volume one, volume two, autumn winter, spring summer. And again, very detailed information about all the objects, virtually all of them in the night sky with photographs and right ups on all of them and charts to help you find them. Each one of these books is about 500 pages long. So very comprehensive, almost an encyclopedia of night sky objects. The night sky observer's guide, volume one and volume two. Now there's one book I don't have, I loaded half and the fella has never brought it back to me, but I read it already. It's okay. And that is Turn Left at Orion. Turn Left at Orion. Very popular, another very popular star-dazing book. So you need to write that down. Turn Left at Orion. Very, very popular. Lots of tell red charts in it. I think you'll like that book also. Turn Left at Orion. And finally, you need something to carry out in the field. If you're going to be an amateur astronomer and really learn the night sky and kind of figure out your way around, you need a map. You know, you go to Walmart, you're going to go drive across the country before there was GPS and satellites and all that stuff. And you would buy a Rand Magnally road atlas. And you would put that in the car. You would have the latest addition to, if you remember that, if you're old enough to remember that, they still sell them at Walmart or some in there the other day were in Magnally almost bought one just to stick it in the car. And then the internet had every map of every road of any significance in the entire United States, you know, in it large maps. So in astronomy, we have a similar thing. And it's called the Sky Atlas 2000. Okay, sky out, Atlas 2000. Google that out. And this is meant to lay on a desk. It's spiral bound. So you can lay it flat on a table out in the field at night. And it has very comprehensive charts, big charts of the night sky. Let me see if I get you one of them just to give you a kind of a feel for. So here you go. I don't know what kind of resolution you're getting out of that right now, but section of the sky with a multitude of stars designated just little map portion number nine here. But anyway, if you're going to explore the night sky and you got to have a map of the night sky, a detailed map. This is a detailed map of the night sky. And every section of the night sky is contained in this map. So sky atless 2000 sky atless to not inexpensive, but well worth your serious about the hobby. It's well worth to get the copy of this. Okay. So I think I filled you up with books there. Lots of them are very large books, the burrows and the night sky, observer got her huge books. So go out there and we'll give you some links to Amazon and more to like late. And kind of put you on to some of these books I showed you and maybe a few others. And if you want to get involved in the hobby, then you're going to have to do a little bit of studying in some of these books. And here they are. So with that said, I wish you clear skies in 73. And remember to keep looking up to see the greatest show on earth right over your head every single night. You being good. Subscribe. 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