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Astronomy Demystified (Demystified)

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I am really enjoying this book. In fact I have the Physics, Calculus, Algebra books also. I find them very well explained. I am using these book as "self study" and find them very good for that purpose, but I can also see how they would be helpful to anyone in High School that needs some extra help, or wants to go beyond the level they are being taught. The end of topic reviews and tests help you see how much knowledge you are gaining and what areas you need to focus on.

This is one of the most comprehensive basic astronomy courses I've ever seen. I especially like it because it includes information about the sky as seen from "down under." Half of the globe is, after all, south of the equator (even if most of the landmass is not). The imaginary journeys among the planets are fun. I wish the author had taken me on an intergalactic voyage, but maybe that is asking too much.

This book is one of the better ones in the series. Some such as the quantum mechanics and the relativity book(note: I do not have them but have read reviews) are more for college level students majoring in physics. This book is a great book. If you are interested in taking a summer course in astronomy but are disapointed by the material that is covered, or it is too expensive, this book is a valuable alternative. The beginning of the book is a little boring however. Also, in the preface the author recommends reading a chapter a week. I read a chapter in three days. Overall this book is great.

I had to 'demystify' my learning about Astrology thru other books because this one is extremely confusing - it seems that it is a report (a copy) of some other work the publisher put together but the understanding was lost...in the translation of this book! There is absolutely zero teaching skills in this book. Some facts are still interesting but you can find those in any other Astronomy books. I wanted to learn about Astronomy and if I didn't have a passion about Cosmology I would have given up about astronomy because of this book. I cannot possibly recommend this book if you want to learn (AND above all understand) astronomy because it does the opposite. Oh and one last thing: although there are answers to the problems, those exercises / tests are 'weird' in a way that they are either very easy or extremely complicated (even if you read again the lesson you won't find a relation with the question(s) asked). Just a weird, really weird book, totally unbalanced...

I really am enjoying this book. It is interesting and insightfull. I am refreshing my college astronomy class, and this book fits the bill.

I have borrowed this book in a library, at first I hoped it would be interesting light reading, but when I got to chapters of Sun as well as chapters concerning stellar evolution, I was very disappointed -- the author can't keep his data straight when it comes to given star's fate, like the sun. In one chapter he's talking about Sun becoming a hard cold body and in another he makes it a black dwarf. All around, to me this book was a disappoitment.