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Paperback:

9780471704102 | Turner Pub Co, April 21, 2008, cover price $19.95

Miscellaneous:

9780470249178 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, July 21, 2008, cover price $19.95

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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

Paperback:

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

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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

Paperback:

9780471696575, titled "50 Best Sights in Astronomy and How to See Them: Observing Eclipses, Bright Comets, Meteor Showers,and Other…" | 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.

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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.

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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)

Hardcover:

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

Paperback:

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

Prebinding:

9780613078085 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $27.30

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Discusses the planets, with particular emphasis on comparing them to each other and especially to Earth (view table of contents)

Paperback:

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

Library:

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

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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
By Guy Ottewell (illustrator) and Fred Schaaf

Hardcover:

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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Offers advice on observing the stars and planets, and discusses eclipses, meteors, comets, and nebulae

Paperback:

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

Library:

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

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Offers suggestions for projects requiring a telescope that help to understand the wonders of astronomy (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

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

Paperback:

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

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A guide to astronomical observation using a telescope outlines projects for observing the moon, the sun, the planets, asteroids, comets, and meteors (view table of contents)
By Doug Myers (illustrator) and Fred Schaaf

Hardcover:

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

Paperback:

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

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Covers the moon, planets, stars, sunsets, light pollution, meteors and comets, rainbows, and eclipses explains how to report findings (view table of contents)

Paperback:

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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Discusses the use of the unaided eye to view a variety of ordinary and unusual sights in the sky

Paperback:

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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