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What's Out Tonight? 50 Year Astronomy Field Guide 2000 to 2050

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Ken Graun has struck a perfect balance of crispness and completeness with his presentation of celestial facts in "What's Out Tonight?". This book is great for those of us (like me) who love astronomy but don't have the time to observe every night (or even every month). It provides a 50 year guide to the moon phases and best planet observing periods (and much more) so you can either plan your outdoor observing well in advance, or quickly create a plan for tonight's sky. This guide recommends (and helps locate) deep space objects of interest throughout the year. I found the readability and layout of the book's tables and figures perfect for teaching both the Boy Scout Astronomy and Space Exploration merit badges. This field guide can excite and teach a 10 year old, and still function flawlessly for me as a reference source. Satisfying this wide a range of readers proves how gifted Ken Graun is as an author. After you get this book, the next time you set up your scope and attract neighbors that ask, "What's Out Tonight?", you'll be ready.

What's Out Tonight? is an exceptional astronomical field guide covering North American star fields from 2000 to 2050. Ken Graun provides 50 years of Moon phases, Planetary positions; solar and lunar eclipses, annual meteor showers, sunrise/sunset times for 200 cities; 25 celestial objects for observation; monthly star charts, and a Moon Map. An informative, comprehensive, "reader friendly" manual, What's Out Tonight? is enhanced with tabbed pages, cross references, tables and charts, explanatory illustrations, more than 75 photographs, historical timeline, glossary, and an index. Whether casual amateur or dedicated astronomer, What's Out Tonight? is a premiere reference guide for finding and observing all the major celestial phenomena and objects.