Customer Reviews

Stargazing with Binoculars

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PROS:

This book is packed with enough enformation to keep the reader busy for months.
This book flows with an easy to read style that both novice and experienced stargazers will appreciate.
This book is laid out in a great format that takes into account the various months of the year.
This book blends a good mix of practical observing information and descriptions of various astronomical objects.
This book offers sound advice on the selection of a pair of binoculars.
This book's compact size, coupled with a pair of binoculars offers a great traveling astronomy kit.
This book has easy to read sketches and maps. Many of the pictures mirror the views seen through binoculars.
All in all it is a well put together field guide to astronomy with binoculars.
This book is equally usable to readers in the northern and southern hemispheres.

CONS:

I wish just a little more space was given to the moon. An entire chapter could have been dedicated to the moon. Every few hours the moon looks different through binoculars. A number of the features can be identified.
I wish a few more of the sketches and pictures were similar to actual views through binoculars. Pretty pictures taken by large telescopes can lead readers to expect more than binoculars deliver.
I've spent a lot of time doing astronomy through binoculars. I think this book is overly optimistic at times with what can be seen observed. The book is not wrong, but some of the objects need large binoculars and dark skies.

FINAL RECOMMENDATION:

***** (5 stars). This book is a quality field guide. Buy it, grab a pair of binoculars, and keep them with you this year. It is a great, yet inexpensive, way to begin astronomy.