Book
Turn left at Orion : hundreds of night sky objects to see in a home telescope-- and how to find them / Guy Consolmagno, Dan M. Davis ; illustrated by the authors ; cover and title page, Mary Lynn Skirvin ; additional illustrations by Karen Kotash Sepp, Todd Johnson, and Anne Drogin.
"With over 100,000 copies sold since first publication, this is one of the most popular astronomy books of all time. It is a unique guidebook to the night sky, providing all the information you need to observe a whole host of celestial objects. With a new spiral binding, this edition is even easier to use outdoors at the telescope and is the ideal beginner's book. Keeping its distinct one-object-per-spread format, this edition is also designed for Dobsonian telescopes, as well as for smaller reflectors and refractors, and covers Southern hemisphere objects in more detail. Large-format eyepiece views, positioned side-by-side, show objects exactly as they are seen through a telescope, and with improved directions, updated tables of astronomical information and an expanded night-by-night Moon section, it has never been easier to explore the night sky on your own"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780521153973 (spiral bound)
- ISBN: 0521153972 (spiral bound)
- Physical Description: 255 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.
- Edition: 4th ed.
- Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Spiral bound. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | How do you get to Albireo? -- How to use this book -- Using your telescope -- Know your telescope -- The moon -- The planets -- Seasonal skies : January-March -- Seasonal skies : April-June -- Seasonal skies : July-September -- Seasonal skies : October-December -- Northern skies -- Southern skies -- Where do you go from here? -- Behind the eyepiece. |
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| Subject: | Astronomy > Amateurs' manuals. |
Electronic resources
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