This unique and accessible book provides a handy reference to the skies visible from the countries of the southern hemisphere. Amateur astronomers or casual observers of the night sky will have easy access to the star charts of world famous astronomical cartographer Wil Tirion, prepared especially for this volume. Television astronomer David Ellyard has contributed a detailed explanatory text to accompany the charts, together with a general introduction to the study of the night sky. Charts of the whole sky--24 in all--show what is visible early and late in each month. These are followed by details of each section of the sky, with particular attention to the constellations seen in the southern skies. Planet positions are provided up to the year 2010. For this new edition, the text has been thoroughly revised and new charts created to illustrate the legends behind the main constellations.
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"...an ideal book to accompany anyone who undertakes the scanning of the southern skies, with or without binoculars or a small telescope." Science Books & Films
"Wil Tirilon's cartography is clear and accurate, setting the standard in star atlases." SkyNews
"Wil Tirilon's cartography is clear and accurate, setting the standard in star atlases." SkyNews
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This unique and accessible book provides a handy reference to the skies visible from the countries of the southern hemisphere for both amateur astronomers and casual observers. World famous astronomical cartographer Wil Tirion has teamed up with television astronomer David Ellyard to provide detailed charts of the southern sky throughout the year and clear explanatory text. For this new edition, the text has been thoroughly revised and new charts created to illustrate the legends behind the main constellations of the southern sky. Planet positions are provided up to 2010.
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This modest but useful book includes background information on stars, planets and constellations, and star charts with interesting objects pointed out. All from a southern hemisphere perspective. It's written in an informal, conversational style, and the star charts (by Wil Tirion) are clear and well-organized.
The charts aren't the largest or the deepest magnitude, but there are other references for that, like Sky Atlas 2000.0.
A particularly handy reference for us northerners who visit Down Under: I used it myself when planning a trip to Australia. Handy for people who live there, too.
The charts aren't the largest or the deepest magnitude, but there are other references for that, like Sky Atlas 2000.0.
A particularly handy reference for us northerners who visit Down Under: I used it myself when planning a trip to Australia. Handy for people who live there, too.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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This book has well laid out and attractive star charts but is used best as a desk reference and not as a field reference. Like most of Tirion's Atlases, I think the charts are one magnitude from being truly useful. Under very dark skies in the country the charts would be more then adequate to find the deep sky objects, but in a moderately polluted urban environment there is insufficient magnitude detail to star hop adequately. I would say this book is excellent for beginners or newcomers looking for an introduction to the Southern skies. So I give this 4 stars, also partly because there is a lack of such introductory books of the Southern skies.
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The Kindle version is absolutly horrible, the star maps are completely unreadable even under zoom. The Zoom feature will enlarge images to fit screen size at maximum, since the star maps are big and the text in it is small theres no way to make sense of the maps making the kindle version useless.
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When the night sky is dark and clear, it presents a dazzling spectacle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
brightish stars, open cluster, external galaxies, sidereal time, arc seconds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Milky Way, Full Moon, Taurus Capricornus, Southern Fish, Cancer Capricornus, Canis Major, Leo the Lion, Gemini Capricornus, Leo Capricornus, Orion the Hunter, Capricornus Venus, Southern Cross, Aquila the Eagle, Capricornus Moon, Great Square of Pegasus, Lyra the Harp, Taurus the Bull, Cancer the Crab, Coma Berenices, Cygnus the Swan, Gemini the Twins, Libra the Scales, Sagittarius Leo, Sagittarius the Archer, November Libra New!
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When the night sky is dark and clear, it presents a dazzling spectacle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
brightish stars, open cluster, external galaxies, sidereal time, arc seconds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Milky Way, Full Moon, Taurus Capricornus, Southern Fish, Cancer Capricornus, Canis Major, Leo the Lion, Gemini Capricornus, Leo Capricornus, Orion the Hunter, Capricornus Venus, Southern Cross, Aquila the Eagle, Capricornus Moon, Great Square of Pegasus, Lyra the Harp, Taurus the Bull, Cancer the Crab, Coma Berenices, Cygnus the Swan, Gemini the Twins, Libra the Scales, Sagittarius Leo, Sagittarius the Archer, November Libra New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Julius Caesar by J. H. Walter on page 20
- Full Moon by Michael Light on page 16
- Wonders of the Sky (Wonders of Nature: Natural Phenomena in Science and Myth) by Tamra Andrews on page 101, and page 105
- The Starlore Handbook: An Essential Guide to the Night Sky by Geoffrey Cornelius in Back Matter
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