Photo-guide to the Constellations: A Self-Teaching Guide to Finding Your Way Aro

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"l hope that people all around the world never forget what a wonderful thing it is to lie on your back and look up at the stars" Pete Seeger What is the fascination that constellations hold for people?

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There are many books on finding your way round the night sky, but the Photo-guide to the Constellations is unique in showing photographs of how the sky really looks under a variety of different seeing conditions, from city outskirts to the almost-perfect skies deep in the countryside. Along with a detailed step-by-step guide to "star hopping" and other useful techniques, these make this an invaluable guide for all newcomers to astronomy.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 Finding the Constellations.- 3 The Individual Constellations.- 4 The Sky throughout the Year.- Appendix 1: The Messier and Caldwell Objects.- Appendix 2: The Greek Alphabet.- Appendix 3: Bibliography.

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FROM THE REVIEWS:IRISH ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL"This addition to the Practical Astronomy Series serves as an excellent source of reference for the amateur astronomer…the result is a very practical book which will serve the beginner very well."

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"l hope that people all around the world never forget what a wonderful thing it is to lie on your back and look up at the stars" Pete Seeger What is the fascination that constellations hold for people? There are probably as many different answers to that question as there are people. For many, though, the constella

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FROM THE REVIEWS: IRISH ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL a?This addition to the Practical Astronomy Series serves as an excellent source of reference for the amateur astronomera? the result is a very practical book which will serve the beginner very well.a?

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FROM THE REVIEWS: IRISH ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL "This addition to the Practical Astronomy Series serves as an excellent source of reference for the amateur astronomer...the result is a very practical book which will serve the beginner very well."

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Photographs illustrating the night sky as it looks from various locations, from city outskirts to the almost perfect skies deep in the countryside Quickly learn to find your way round the night sky

Details ISBN3540762035 Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Year 1997 ISBN-10 3540762035 ISBN-13 9783540762034 Format Paperback Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K Place of Publication Berlin Country of Publication Germany DEWEY 523.8 Edition 1st Language English Media Book Short Title PHOTO-GT THE CONSTELLATIONS /E Edition Description Edition. Publication Date 1997-11-17 Author C.R. Kitchin Series The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series Pages 149 Illustrations 441 Illustrations, black and white; X, 149 p. 441 illus. Subtitle A Self-Teaching Guide to Finding Your Way Around the Heavens DOI 10.1007/b60886;10.1007/978-1-4471-0611-1 Audience General We've got this

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