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.
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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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Diagrams are very good; Photos are disappointing.,
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This review is from: Photo-guide to the Constellations: A Self-Teaching Guide to Finding Your Way Around the Heavens (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series) (Paperback)
The book's main goal is to assist the reader in learning the sky pattern. This book has very nice wide-angle diagrams which show from 3 to 10 constellations each. There are helpful, dotted "star-hopping" lines and narration. Now for the photos: The author writes that there are 3 photos for every part of the sky: 1) from a very dark location, 2) from a less dark location, and 3) from a city location. This is so the reader could see how light pollution affects the sky's appearance. The photos are disappointing. First, it is hard to see anything in them unless you have magnifying glasses or are looking under strong light. Secondly, for each part of the sky, the 3 photos don't exactly match. This impedes side-to-side comparisons of the same part of the sky. The book would be much better, if for each diagram there was only one: more easily viewable photo matching exactly what is in the diagram.
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The purpose of this book is to provide you with the means whereby you may learn to find your way around the sky. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
circumpolar for latitudes, naked eye under good conditions, starter constellation, degrees mag, brilliant site, star hopping, equatorial constellation, way around the sky, visual binary, dark adaption, hemisphere observers, globular cluster, major constellations, minor constellations, main stars, southern observers, star catalogue, magnitude range, star atlas, planetary nebula, irregular variable, astronomy magazines, fainter stars, new constellation, variable stars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Open Cluster, Ursa Major, Visual Size, Object Name, Ptolemy's Almagest, Canis Major, Ursa Minor, Canis Minor, Emission Nebula, Triangulum Australe, Pisces Austrinus, Type Caldwell, Constellations Figure, Milky Way, Type Messier, Leo Minor, First Point of Aries, South Pole, Canes Venatici, North Pole, Corona Australis, Finding Cassiopeia New!
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The purpose of this book is to provide you with the means whereby you may learn to find your way around the sky. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
circumpolar for latitudes, naked eye under good conditions, starter constellation, degrees mag, brilliant site, star hopping, equatorial constellation, way around the sky, visual binary, dark adaption, hemisphere observers, globular cluster, major constellations, minor constellations, main stars, southern observers, star catalogue, magnitude range, star atlas, planetary nebula, irregular variable, astronomy magazines, fainter stars, new constellation, variable stars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Open Cluster, Ursa Major, Visual Size, Object Name, Ptolemy's Almagest, Canis Major, Ursa Minor, Canis Minor, Emission Nebula, Triangulum Australe, Pisces Austrinus, Type Caldwell, Constellations Figure, Milky Way, Type Messier, Leo Minor, First Point of Aries, South Pole, Canes Venatici, North Pole, Corona Australis, Finding Cassiopeia New!
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- Seeing Stars by P. Moore in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Astronomical Objects for Southern Telescopes: With an Addendum for Northern Observatories by Ernst Johannes Hartung in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Modern Amateur Astronomer (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series) by Patrick Moore in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Amateur Astronomer (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series) by Patrick Moore in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Visual Astronomy of the Deep Sky by Roger N. Clark in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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