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9780471704102 | Turner Pub Co, April 21, 2008, cover price $19.95
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9780470249178 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, July 21, 2008, cover price $19.95
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9780805046687 | Henry Holt & Co, August 15, 1998, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Teaches readers the elements of astromony in the course of forty clear nights, through simple, step-by-step lessons that progress from the geography of the night sky to more challenging astronomical concepts
Prebinding:
9781439503850 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $28.00
Product Description: Fred Schaaf is one of the most experienced astronomical observers of our time. For more than two decades, his view of the sky--what will be visible, when it will be visible, and what it will look like--has encouraged tens of thousands of people to turn their eyes skyward...read more
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9780471696575, titled "50 Best Sights in Astronomy and How to See Them: Observing Eclipses, Bright Comets, Meteor Showers,and Otherâ¦" | Turner Pub Co, July 30, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Fred Schaaf is one of the most experienced astronomical observers of our time.
Miscellaneous:
9780470128312 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, July 27, 2007, cover price $19.95
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9781429203937 | W H Freeman & Co, October 24, 2006, cover price $76.00
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9780716761099 | Pck edition (W H Freeman & Co, January 26, 2006), cover price $119.30
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9780716782254 | Pck edition (W H Freeman & Co, October 26, 2005), cover price $116.05
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9780716779834 | Pck edition (W H Freeman & Co, October 18, 2005), cover price $112.50
Product Description: The ideal book for the amateur astronomer or anyone curious about our place in the universe, A Year of the Stars takes the reader on a fascinating journey of discovery through the seasons of the starry night sky. Acclaimed popular science writer Fred Schaaf, who has written the monthly stars and planets columns for Sky & Telescope magazine for over ten years, has created this eloquent guide that both beginners and veteran skywatchers will find rewarding...read more
Hardcover:
9781591020929 | Prometheus Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: The ideal book for the amateur astronomer or anyone curious about our place in the universe, A Year of the Stars takes the reader on a fascinating journey of discovery through the seasons of the starry night sky.
Product Description: This inspiring and enriching book, a collection of essays that evokes the beauty and wonder of the night sky, explains to beginning skywatchers how to find and where to look for specific celestial objects.Author Fred Schaaf, once described as a naturalist in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau and John Burroughs, reveals an intense love of his subject and a keen knowledge of the optimum ways of viewing astronomical phenomena with the naked eye...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780471620884 | Dodd Mead, November 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: For the beginning or advanced naked-eye astronomer, this informative text, accompanied by drawings, diagrams, and scratchboard illustrations, provides a guide to exciting discoveries in the night sky
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9780486425535 | Dover Pubns, December 6, 2002, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This inspiring and enriching book, a collection of essays that evokes the beauty and wonder of the night sky, explains to beginning skywatchers how to find and where to look for specific celestial objects.
9780471530251 | Reprint edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, September 1, 1990), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: For the beginning or advanced naked-eye astronomer, this informative text, accompanied by drawings, diagrams, and scratchboard illustrations, provides a guide to exciting discoveries in the night sky
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9780613078085 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $27.30
Discusses the planets, with particular emphasis on comparing them to each other and especially to Earth
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9780531158289 | Reprint edition (Franklin Watts, March 1, 1997), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Discusses the planets, with particular emphasis on comparing them to each other and especially to Earth
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9780531113004 | Franklin Watts, October 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Discusses the planets, with particular emphasis on comparing them to each other and especially to Earth
Product Description: The present century has been a disappointing one for comets, but past centuries often featured spectacular, unforgettable comet shows that dominated the night (and even daytime) sky for months: comets that outshone Venus or even the Moon, whose spectacular tails stretched more than halfway across the sky or were weirdly split, and whose apparition was held responsible for everything from wars to unusually good wine vintages...read more
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9780387947938 | Copernicus Books, December 1, 1996, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The present century has been a disappointing one for comets, but past centuries often featured spectacular, unforgettable comet shows that dominated the night (and even daytime) sky for months: comets that outshone Venus or even the Moon, whose spectacular tails stretched more than halfway across the sky or were weirdly split, and whose apparition was held responsible for everything from wars to unusually good wine vintages.
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9780939251759 | Accord Pub Ltd, August 1, 1996, cover price $10.95
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9780531157206 | Franklin Watts, September 1, 1994, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Offers advice on observing the stars and planets, and discusses eclipses, meteors, comets, and nebulae
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9780531111383 | Franklin Watts, April 1, 1994, cover price $21.40 | About this edition: Offers advice on observing the stars and planets, and discusses eclipses, meteors, comets, and nebulae
Offers suggestions for projects requiring a telescope that help to understand the wonders of astronomy
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9780471530688 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 1, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Offers suggestions for projects requiring a telescope that help to understand the wonders of astronomy
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9780471530695 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, March 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Offers suggestions for projects requiring a telescope that help to understand the wonders of astronomy
A guide to astronomical observation using a telescope outlines projects for observing the moon, the sun, the planets, asteroids, comets, and meteors
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9780471530701 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, August 1, 1991, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A guide to astronomical observation using a telescope outlines projects for observing the moon, the sun, the planets, asteroids, comets, and meteors
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9780471530718 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, August 1, 1991, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A guide to astronomical observation using a telescope outlines projects for observing the moon, the sun, the planets, asteroids, comets, and meteors
Covers the moon, planets, stars, sunsets, light pollution, meteors and comets, rainbows, and eclipses explains how to report findings
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9780471510673 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, May 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Covers the moon, planets, stars, sunsets, light pollution, meteors and comets, rainbows, and eclipses explains how to report findings
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9780934546157 | Universal Workshop, June 1, 1985, cover price $11.00
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9780486244020 | Dover Pubns, February 1, 1984, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Discusses the use of the unaided eye to view a variety of ordinary and unusual sights in the sky
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