Exploring the Starry Sky

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"Exploring the Starry Sky features large, colorful, user-friendly star maps and includes simple directions for finding all of the major stars and constellations visible from the northern hemisphere. One of the "Year's best astronomy books" in the 2005 annual special issue of Astronomy magazine." Astronomical Society of the Pacific


Book Description
The perfect guide for anyone interested in stargazing for the first time, Exploring the Starry Sky features large, colorful, user-friendly star maps and includes simple directions for finding all of the major stars and constellations visible from the northern hemisphere. Two star charts display the major sights to be seen from suburban or rural locations, for each season, and more detailed maps spotlight special regions of interest. Robert Burnham has been an amateur astronomer since the mid-1950s. He has been a senior editory of Astronomy magazine and is the author of many books and CD-ROMS, including Comet Hale-Bopp: Find and Enjoy the Great Comet (Cambridge, 1997) Comet Explorer, and Great Comets (Cambridge, 2000).


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Exploring the Starry Sky is the perfect guide for anyone interested in stargazing for the first time. With large, colorful, and easy-to-use star maps, it contains simple directions for finding all of the major stars and constellations visible from the northern hemisphere. For each season, two star charts show all the major sights that can be seen from suburban or rural locations. For those who already have binoculars or a small telescope, more detailed maps spotlight special regions of interest. Additional sections show where the planets are from now until 2006. When to look for meteor showers, and dates and places of upcoming eclipses of the Sun and Moon. Easy to use and fun, Exploring the Starry Sky is an enjoyable introduction to sky-watching for every beginner. This book is illustrated by WIL TIRION, a celestial cartographer who is widely regarded as the leading exponent of his art in the world.


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