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The Most Complete Guide to the Stars, Planets, Galaxies, and the Solar System - Fully Revised and Expanded Edition

In this new edition of their classic work, Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion illuminate the night sky as never before, providing novice stargazers and professional astronomers alike with the most comprehensive and authoritative celestial field guide available. With superb color sky charts, diagrams, or photographs on almost every page, and clear and engaging writing, Stars and Planets is the most user-friendly and informative guide to the night sky. The product of more than twenty years' collaboration between one of the world's leading astronomy writers and the world's foremost celestial mapmaker, the new Stars and Planets features a slightly larger (but still compact) size, a more spacious and attractive design, and much new material, including more information on galaxies and star types. Simply put, Stars and Planets is indispensable. Don't leave home--at night--without it.



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 * Detailed charts covering all 88 constellations in the Northern and Southern hemispheres
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 * Data and notes on all bright stars and other objects of interest
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 * Detailed Moon maps and descriptions of the main lunar features
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 * Tips on choosing and using binoculars and telescopes, to suit any budget
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 * The only guide to provide annual planetary data as a downloadable Web resource
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Stars and Planets

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Ian Ridpath

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In this new edition of their classic guide, Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion bring the night sky down to earth with brand new sky charts, diagrams, and photos that enrich the clear, engaging text. Stars and Planets will delight both latent astronomers who have yet to touch a telescope and the more star-savvy who have spent many a night outside craning their necks behind a lens.



The introduction presents the basics of astronomical observation while answering such questions as: How did constellations come to be? Do the stars within them have anything to do with one another? Do stars really flicker? Next comes the book's centerpiece: an excellent series of maps of the night sky from hemisphere to hemisphere, month to month and, above all, charts showing all 88 constellations, including some 5,000 stars. The text vividly relates the human history behind each constellation and notes their most prominent stars while offering sundry stimulating facts.



The second section focuses on the astrophysics behind stars, galaxies, the sun, the planets, comets and meteors, and more. Striking full-color photos, maps, and illustrations appear on almost every page. The guide concludes with helpful tips on the optical tools of the trade and on astrophotography. Astrophysicists and amateur skywatchers agree that Stars and Planets is simply the most user-friendly, compact source of celestial information available. No one should leave home at night without it.



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 * Up-to-date full-color photos and data, including recent planetary images
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 * Monthly maps of the night sky as seen from latitudes throughout the world
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 * Charts of all 88 constellations, with data and notes on bright stars and other objects of interest
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 * Illustrated introduction to stars, nebulae, galaxies, and the solar system
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 * Advice on choosing and using binoculars and telescopes
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The Most Complete Guide to the Stars, Planets, Galaxies, and Solar System - Updated and Expanded Edition

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