Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars
Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars
$55.99
USDOn a clear, starry night, the jewelled beauty and unimaginable immensity of our universe is awe-inspiring. Star-gazing with binoculars is rewarding and may begin a lifelong hobby! Patrick Moore has painstakingly researched Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars to describe how to use binoculars for astronomical observation. He explains basic astronomy and the selection of binoculars, then discusses the stars, clusters, nebulae and galaxies that await the observer. The sky seen from both the northern and southern hemispheres is charted season by season, with detailed maps of all the constellations. The reader can also observe the Sun, Moon, planets, comets and meteors. With many beautiful illustrations, this handbook will be helpful and encouraging to casual observers and those cultivating a more serious interest. The enjoyment of amateur astronomy is now available to everybody.
- The author, Patrick Moore, is Britain's best known astronomer
- New edition of an extremely successful and well known book
- Includes many beautiful illustrations
Reviews & endorsements
"...a useful beginner's guide to the binocular sky." Sky & Telescope
"...a very practical guide, explaining clearly what may be observed with binoculars in the sky at night." Physics Bulletin
Product details
October 2000Paperback
9780521793902
220 pages
248 × 176 × 14 mm
0.467kg
141 b/w illus. 12 tables
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface to the third edition
- 1. The night sky
- 2. Binoculars of many kinds
- 3. Among the stars
- 4. Double stars and variable stars
- 5. Clusters, nebulae and galaxies
- 6. Stars of the seasons
- 7. The constellations
- 8. The sun and its eclipses
- 9. Lunar landscapes
- 10. The planets
- 11. Comets and shooting stars
- 12. Summing-up
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- A note on metrication.
