Offers tips on choosing skywatching tools, gives hints for sketching and photographing the night sky, and provides celestial charts (view table of contents)

Product Description: Nowadays we have stopped watching the sky. We are so submerged by our towns’ lights, constantly busy, hypnotized by the television, that we hardly have time to contemplate the sky at night. We forget the stars’ beauty, the planet’s slow sliding, the lunar rhythms and the rotations of planets, season after season...read more

Product Description: Put the Universe at your fingertips with this dramatic and comprehensive look at the sky. Richly illustrated with hundreds of recent photographs and images from ground-based telescopes, the Hubble Space Telescope, and interplanetary spacecraft, Atlas of the Universe is a definitive reference to the stars, the planets and their moons, and the universe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This magnificent atlas contains the most attractive and interesting double and multiple stars for viewing with binoculars and telescopes. It is a must-have for stargazers who want to explore these fascinating objects. The first modern star atlas devoted to double and multiple stars, it plots over 2,000 selected pairs of stars, each labeled with discoverer, catalog, and/or observatory designations. A superb introduction to this important class of celestial objects, it is spiral bound and printed in red-light friendly colors, making it ideal for use in the field. Written by experienced observer James Mullaney, and beautifully illustrated by renowned celestial cartographer Wil Tirion, it provides an easy-to-use 'celestial roadmap' to locate and identify double and multiple stars. Other deep-sky objects such as star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies are also included, and are color-coded for easy recognition and identification, making this an all-purpose observing reference.

Product Description: Using the latest methods in digital photography and image processing, The Cambridge Photographic Moon Atlas presents sixty-nine regions of the lunar landscape in large-format images with corresponding charts. Each two-page spread features a specific region in multiple lighting situations, allowing for direct comparisons of the same landscape at different lunar phases...read more

Provides information about the moon, star charts and monthly sky maps covering that which is visible each month in different hemispheres.

Provides a comprehensive, illustrated guide to viewing astronomical objects through simple instruments, such as binoculars, a small telescope, or even the naked eye, outlining each object's location and optimal observation times. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: After three years out of the LAPD, Harry Bosch returns to find the department a different place from the one he left. A new police chief has been brought in from New York to give the place a thorough clean up from top to bottom. Working with his former partner, Kiz Rider, Harry is assigned to the department s Open-Unsolved Unit, working on the thousands of cold cases that haunt the LAPD s files...read more

Product Description: The precision used in this volume is appropriate for use on scientific pocket calculators or personal computers. Tables of coefficients are supplied for calculating the positions. The compact presentation eliminates the need to carry larger nautical almanacs or sight reduction tables...read more

Captions in nontechnical language accompany photographs of the night sky, from stars to galaxies, captured by the world's most sophisticated telescopes

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Provides information on finding one hundred deep sky objects, including double and triple stars, nebulae, galaxies, and quasars, along with a description of each object's history and a star atlas.

Discusses binoculars and how to use them for astronomical observation, and provides information about double stars, variable stars, clusters, nebulae, galaxies, constellations, the moon, and planets (view table of contents)

The Sun is the closest star to Earth, and the only one we can observe in any sort of detail. As such it is a fascinating field of study. It also has the practical advantage, unlike every other astronomical object, of being visible in the daytime! After an introduction to the Sun as a star, the book concentrates entirely on practical aspects for amateur observers: the equipment needed, how to set it up, how to record observations, and how to image the Sun with conventional or digital cameras.

Product Description: “Make the Stars Your Old Friends!” . . . with Mike Lynch, America’s Master Stargazing instructor. Mike has led stargazing classes for over 30 years and has instructed 1000s of would-be backyard astronomers (and maybe a few would-be professional astronomers!) Now with Michigan StarWatch you can easily pick up what beginning and advanced stargazers ages 12 and up have learned in his popular stargazing classes...read more

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Offers a month-by-month guide to the stars and constellations, discusses the history and nature of stars, and describes meteor showers and the positions of the planets.

Star maps of the northern and southern skies identify highlights