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Learning the Night Sky
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Learning the Night Sky with Stargazer Paul Derrick presents a unique approach to learning the night sky. Derrick divides the sky into nine regions, making the task of learning much easer. He then uses stories and themes to help remember the constellations in each region. Not only beginners will find this book interesting. Experienced stargazers will also discover a new and fun connection with the constellations and the beautiful objects they contain.
Stargazer's Life List, following in the bird watching tradition of keeping a life long list of observing achievements, offers stargazers at all levels a lifetime check list of astronomical objects down to the 10th magnitude.
Objects are grouped by magnitude, providing an objective means for determining one's level of stargazing achievement.
Spend more time viewing and less time searching!
Objects in the Heavens is a pocket-size astronomy field guide that features all known deep-sky objects to Magnitude 10 for telescope and binocular observation. Object-oriented maps include special symbols to aid in identifying objects, stars, double stars, and asterisms.
Simple enough for the beginner. Detailed enough for the advanced observer.
Use The AstroMax Online Astronomy Book Store and as your source for star atlases, photographic/ccd, cosmological, historical and biographical titles.
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Since 1981, Wil Tirion’s Sky Atlas 2000 has been the standard sky atlas for amateur astronomers. The new version retains all the features that made the 1st edition a best seller and adds many new ones.
The deluxe edition is a full inch larger than the original version. And the charts are more accurate, since they have been plotted by computer, based on the European Space Agency’s Hipparcos catalog, instead of by hand as in the original, based on the older SAO Catalog.
Several significant changes have been made. The most important is a stretch in the magnitude limit from 8.0 to 8.5. This one-half magnitude difference means that almost twice as many stars are plotted, 81,312 in the new version, vs. 43,000 in the original.
Star dot sizes are crisper in the new version, and are drawn by the computer according to a continuous magnitude scale. In the old version, star dots were “binned” in half-magnitude steps. The shapes of nebulosities, galaxies, and Milky Way isophotes also seem to be drawn with more detail.
Sky Atlas 2000.0, 2nd Edition, is available in five versions: Deluxe (black stars, white sky, deep-sky objects color-coded by type, Milky Way isophotes, spiral bound, $49.95), Field (white stars and deep-sky objects, black sky, loose charts, boxed, $29.95), Field Laminated (same as Field, but laminated and spiral bound, $69.95), Desk (black stars and deep-sky objects, white sky, loose charts, boxed, $29.95), and Desk Laminated (same as Desk, laminated/spiral bound, $69.95).
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