A Year of the Stars
Subtitle: A Month-By-Month Journey of Skywatching
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781591020929
Subjects: Popular astronomy; Science; Astronomy (General); Stars; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - Star Guides; Star Observation; Astronomy - General; Cosmology; Astronomy; Observers' manuals
First sentence: One look at a starry country sky.
Description: One look at a starry night sky is often enough to arouse an individual's curiosity and generate a desire to discover the wonders of the heavens. But how do you learn the identities of all those stars and constellations and when they appear? What is a planetary nebula or a globular star cluster--where do you find them and how do you tell them apart?