A comprehensive family reference guide to all the amazing phenomena of our night skies, with helpful charts and detailed photography This comprehensive introduction to our night skies has been written by a team of expert astronomers. Their collective experience, combined with a straightforward, no-nonsense approach creates the perfect guide to understanding galaxies, eclipses, the moon and constellations. Our solar system is brought to life through extraordinary images, and our night skies made easy to understand with colourful charts. Visually exciting and always informative, Skywatching covers both the historical and scientific aspects of astronomy. * Leads you through our immediate Solar System with the Sun, the Moon and the planets * Takes you into deep space, revealing the stars, galaxies and nebulae * Comprehensive bi-monthly star charts that can be used anywhere in the world, with constellation charts showing 85 star formations * Useful information on the equipment used for skywatching, from the huge optical telescopes used by professional astronomers to makeshift observatories

Skywatching : The Ultimate Guide to the Universe

David H.Levy

Collins

Offers tips on choosing skywatching tools, gives hints for sketching and photographing the night sky, and provides celestial charts

Advanced Skywatching: The Backyard Astronomer's Guide to Starhopping and Exploring the Universe (The Nature Company Guides)

Science & Math

Robert Burnham

MARTIN, GEORGE

Jeff Kanipe

Alan Dyer

David Levy

Robert A. Garfinkle

Astronomy & Space Science

Time-Life Education

Biography of Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who discovered Pluto

Clyde Tombaugh: Discoverer of Planet Pluto

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

University of Arizona Press

Skywatching

RD Press

With 150 maps, charts and diagrams, this easy-reference guide to the night sky is practical for everyone, amateur and expert, whether on land or at sea.

The Practical Skywatcher's Handbook

A&C Black

Discover the universe, journey through planets, stars, and galaxies in our Solar System and beyond, Track the life cycle of a star and learn how observatories study the night-sky. Explore the wonders of space and the mystery of life on other planets.

Discoveries Stars & Planets

Sandy Creek

The Sky in Early Modern English Literature: A Study of Allusions to Celestial Events in Elizabethan and Jacobean Writing, 1572-1620

Astronomy is not just a subject unto itself. We all look at the sky, and it has always been a fertile source of guidance and inspiration in art, music, and literature. This book explores the sky’s appearances in music and art, but focuses most on the sky’s enormous presence in early modern English literature. The author concentrates on William Shakespeare, whose references to the sky far exceed the combined total of all his contemporaries. Venturing into the historical context of these references, the book teaches about the Supernovae of 1572 and 1604, the abundant comets of this period, eclipses, astrology and its relation to the night sky at the time, and the early years of the telescope and how the literature of the time relates to it. This book promises to open doors between two great fields of study by inspiring readers to look for their own connections between astronomy and literature, and by helping them to enjoy the night sky itself more completely.

Mathematics

Springer

Veteran comet hunter and eloquent popular astronomy writer David H. Levy takes amateur sky-watchers on a fascinating journey into deep space in this enthusiastic and informative survey of the many far distant yet observable objects in the night sky. Light years beyond our solar system, deep sky objects include such intriguing phenomena as double and triple stars, nebulae, galaxies, and quasars. Designed to be accessible for even beginners, Levy's clear, elegant descriptions will guide astronomy buffs in any hemisphere and locale (light-polluted cities as well as dark countryside) to the wonders of our enormous universe.As the discoverer or codiscoverer of twenty-one comets, including the famous Shoemaker-Levy 9 that crashed into Jupiter in 1994, Levy has devoted many decades of experience to observing the night sky. Over the years he has located over 300 deep sky objects, of which more than 100 "best and brightest" are featured in this book. Levy offers a physical description and a discussion of each object's history and beauty, as well as a star atlas to aid in finding the objects. Proceeding from objects closest to our solar system to those farthest away, Levy gives readers an awe-inspiring glimpse into the structure of the cosmos.Complete with both color and black-and-white photos, plus many helpful illustrations, Deep Sky Objects is the ideal guide to the wonders of the universe for both experienced and novice star gazers.

Deep Sky Objects: The Best And Brightest from Four Decades of Comet Chasing

Prometheus

From the widely acclaimed reference library for children ages 8 and up, here is a beautifully illustrated guide to stars and planets: their orbits, their moons, their characteristics.

Stars and Planets (Discoveries)

Weldon Owen

How to Read Star Charts and the Night Sky. Equipment for Skywatchers. Exploring the Universe

The Nature Companions Practical Skywatching

Fog City Press

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