Guy Consolmagno (Vatican City Vatican Observatory), Dan M. Davis (State University of New York Stony Brook University)

Turn Left at Orion

Hundreds of Night Sky Objects to See in a Home Telescope - and How to Find Them

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This unique and best-selling guidebook to the night sky shows amateur astronomers how to observe a host of celestial wonders. Its distinct format of object-by-object spreads illustrates how deep-sky objects and planets will actually look in a small telescope, with large pages and spiral binding for ease of use outside.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 5 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 310mm x 261mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1170g
• ISBN-13: 9781108457569
• ISBN-10: 1108457568
• Artikelnr.: 52639266

Autorenporträt

Guy Consolmagno is the Director of the Vatican Observatory, Vatican City. He is the author of over 200 scientific publications, primarily on meteorite and asteroid properties. The International Astronomical Union named asteroid 4597 Consolmagno in recognition of his work, and in 2014 he won the Carl Sagan Medal for public outreach from the American Astronomical Society. He uses a 3.5' catadioptric and an 8' Dobsonian telescope.

Inhaltsangabe

1. How do you get to Albireo?; 2. How to use this book; 3. Using your telescope; 4. The Moon; 5. The Sun; 6. Observing planets; 7. Seasonal skies: January
March; 8. Seasonal skies: April
June 90; 9. Seasonal skies: July
September; 10. Seasonal skies: October
December; 11. Northern skies; 12. Southern skies; 13. About this fifth edition; 14. Where do you go from here?; Tables; Index.