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"Provides great direction for amateur astonomers."--Playboy. "A valuable addition...detailed directions on how to find constellations...explains what stars are and how scientists measure their brightness, luminosity and temperature. Maps of the whole sky and of individual constellations are provided....useful to budding astronomers...a well-produced manual...over 200 glossy pages of text and loads of photographs and figures...highly informative and very attractive....it...deserve(s) a place on the science bookshelf."--Appraisal.
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Chock-full of glorious photographs, charts, and maps--with images on virtually every spread--this ultimate celestial guidebook answers all beginners' questions. Locate every constellation and star grouping; use the meridian to establish when each constellation will appear in your area; and know visual cues for recognizing the planets. The dazzling pictorial section points out and defines all the deep-space objects: stars of various types; our own galaxy, the Milky Way; clusters and nebulae. Search through star, constellation, and orientation maps; distinguish visible radiation and see how our atmosphere limits and distorts our view. 224 pages (all in color), 6 7/8 x 8 1/4. NEW IN PAPERBACK.
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