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 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
"Should encourage new observers to go outside and start their way around the sky." Contemporary Physics, Dr. R.V. Willstrop
"Should encourage new observers to go outside and start their way around the sky." Contemporary Physics, Dr. R.V. Willstrop
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Exploring the Starry Sky is the perfect guide for anyone interested in stargazing for the first time. With large, colourful, 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, and more detailed maps spotlight special regions of interest. Easy to use and fun, Exploring the Starry Sky is an enjoyable introduction to sky-watching for every beginner.
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On a clear winter's night, the stars glitter with icy fire against the black of space. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
north celestial pole, magnitude stars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Milky Way, Big Dipper, Great Square, Ursa Minor, Exploring the Starry Sky, Canis Major, Lesser Bear, Little Dipper, Summer Triangle, Ursa Major the Great Bear, Aquila the Eagle, Auriga the Charioteer, Cygnus the Swan, Draco the Dragon, Hercules the Strongman, Lyra the Lyre, Perseus the Hero, Andromeda the Chained Princess, Canis Minor the Lesser Dog, Corona Borealis the Northern Crown, Leo the Lion, Orion the Hunter, Pisces the Fish, Virgo the Maiden New!
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On a clear winter's night, the stars glitter with icy fire against the black of space. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
north celestial pole, magnitude stars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Milky Way, Big Dipper, Great Square, Ursa Minor, Exploring the Starry Sky, Canis Major, Lesser Bear, Little Dipper, Summer Triangle, Ursa Major the Great Bear, Aquila the Eagle, Auriga the Charioteer, Cygnus the Swan, Draco the Dragon, Hercules the Strongman, Lyra the Lyre, Perseus the Hero, Andromeda the Chained Princess, Canis Minor the Lesser Dog, Corona Borealis the Northern Crown, Leo the Lion, Orion the Hunter, Pisces the Fish, Virgo the Maiden New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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