This guide charts the positions of over 1,000 stars and celestial objects, arrayed in easy-to-read maps. It includes a detailed introduction to stargazing, with explanations of the celestial sphere, coordinates, time, star names and other basic concepts. The author catalogs a list of eclipses of the sun and moon through the year 2012, and also supplies a complete list of constellation names and symbols. Fourteen color maps show both polar and equatorial projections of the sky. With additional data on the location of variable stars, the brightest stars, and clusters, this book is worth taking on your next nighttime sojourn across the sky.
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This guide charts the positions of over 1,000 stars and celestial objects, arrayed in easy-to-read maps. It includes a detailed introduction to stargazing, with explanations of the celestial sphere, coordinates, time, star names and other basic concepts.
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Great Help in Stargazing,
This review is from: Cambridge Pocket Star Atlas (Paperback)
This book was great. It helped me to understand alot about the night sky. This book tells me all about the constellations and other heavenly bodies, such as the Orion Nebulae, the planets, sun and moon. This book is a perfect guide to the heavens for adults and children. Buy this book. It is GREAT.
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A small big astronomy book,
By Carlos Santillan (Mexico City, Mexico.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cambridge Pocket Star Atlas (Paperback)
Do not let the small size of this star atlas to mislead you (48pp) I bought this Cambridge Pocket Star Atlas with the intention of replacing another star atlas that I lost, and my surprise was big when I discovered that this booklet includes detailed descriptions and easy to understand explanations for such a concepts (to lay people like me) as Declination and Right Ascension, equinoxes, meridian passage, Apparent visual magnitude & Absolute visual magnitude, the Spectral types (O, B, A, F, G, K, M), Synodic Period, etc.
For years I had been observing the night sky by identifying the stars and the constellations only, but since when I read this Cambridge Pocket Star Atlas I can feel that I am, at least, an amateur astronomer. Buy this one, it's highly recommend.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Help in Stargazing,
This review is from: Cambridge Pocket Star Atlas (Paperback)
This book was great. It helped me to understand alot about the night sky. This book tells me all about the constellations and other heavenly bodies, such as the Orion Nebulae, the planets, sun and moon. This book is a perfect guide to the heavens for adults and children. Buy this book. It is GREAT.
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The position of a celestial object is given by a system of "celestial coordinates" that work like terrestrial latitude and longitude projected on to the inside of the (imaginary) celestial sphere. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
meridian passage, orbit round, celestial equator Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The position of a celestial object is given by a system of "celestial coordinates" that work like terrestrial latitude and longitude projected on to the inside of the (imaginary) celestial sphere. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
meridian passage, orbit round, celestial equator Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Milky Way, Ursa Major, Designation Name, First Point of Aries New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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