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Subtitle: a hundreds of night sky objects to see in a home telescope-- and how to find them
By: Guy Consolmagno, Dan M. Davis ; illustrated by the authors ; cover and title page, Mary Lynn Skirvin ; additional illustrations by Karen Kotash Sepp, Todd Johnson, and Anne Drogin
Contributors: Davis, Dan M. (Dan Michael), 1956-
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780521153973
Subjects: Astronomy; SCIENCE / Astronomy; Amateurs' manuals
Description: "With over 100,000 copies sold since first publication, this is one of the most popular astronomy books of all time. It is a unique guidebook to the night sky, providing all the information you need to observe a whole host of celestial objects. With a new spiral binding, this edition is even easier to use outdoors at the telescope and is the ideal beginner's book. Keeping its distinct one-object-per-spread format, this edition is also designed for Dobsonian telescopes, as well as for smaller reflectors and refractors, and covers Southern hemisphere objects in more detail. Large-format eyepiece views, positioned side-by-side, show objects exactly as they are seen through a telescope, and with improved directions, updated tables of astronomical information and an expanded night-by-night Moon section, it has never been easier to explore the night sky on your own"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. How do you get to Albireo?; 2. How to use this book; 3. The Moon; 4. The planets; 5. Seasonal skies: January-March; 6. Seasonal skies: April-June; 7. Seasonal skies: July-September; 8. Seasonal skies: October-December; 9. Northern skies; 10. Southern skies; 11. Where do you go from here?; Index; Behind the eyepiece.