Star-Hopping - Your Visa to Viewing the Universe (Paperback, Revised)

Star-hopping--using easily seen bright stars to locate fainter celestial objects in the night sky--is a basic and essential technique for all star gazers, novice and veteran alike. Robert Garfinkle shows you how to locate the many stellar objects usually overlooked by the untrained eye. Two or more detailed star hops for each month of the year, which can be read in any order, take you on a trip through the night sky, opening new doors of discovery and reinforcing star-hopping methods and techniques. With Garfinkle's able guidance, learn to take the Messier Marathon--a night-long hop across the skies. Additional basic astronomy skills are carefully outlined, including reading star charts, finding celestial directions, understanding telescope types, and using light pollution filters. A lively history of the universe and the ancient myths and legends of the sky round out the text. This is an essential guide for sky gazers who want to get the most out of their evening sky explorations.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 1997
First published:	1994
Authors:	Robert A. Garfinkle
Dimensions:	250 x 179 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	360
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-59889-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Galaxies, clusters, intergalactic matter > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-59889-3
Barcode:	9780521598897

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