Stephen James O'Meara's observing the night sky with binoculars
Subtitle: a simple guide to the heavens
By: Stephen James O'Meara.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9780521721707
Subjects: Stars -- Observers' manuals; Constellations -- Observers' manuals; Astronomy -- Observers' manuals; Binoculars
Genres: Observers' manuals.
Description: After describing a constellation's mythology, readers are guided in locating and identifying its brightest stars in the sky, as well as any other bright targets of interest - colorful stars, double or multiple stars, star clusters and asterisms, nebulae, galaxies, variable stars, and more. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A dipper full of wonder; title: The spring stars; title: April; title: May; title: June; title: The summer stars; title: July; title: August; title: September; title: The fall stars; title: October; title: November; title: December; title: The winter stars; title: January; title: February; title: March; title: The constellations; title: Nova hunting with binoculars; title: Photo credits.