This practical guide to the night sky is a must for young astronomers. Packed with information on the sun and moon, the constellations, the solar system, the Milky Way, and beyond, it offers advice and ideas for how to get the most out of studying the night sky. Written by an expert in astronomy, this handy guide is full of facts and figures, diagrams, charts and tables, star maps, and moon charts - everything needed for a night of scientific adventure!
Perfect for young astronomers, this pocket-sized resource, filled with facts, figures, diagrams, charts, tables, star maps, and moon charts, features a wealth of information on the sun, moon, constellations, solar system, and Milky Way. Original.Carole Stott has written more than twenty books on astronomy and space and is a feature writer for the U.K. magazine Astronomy Now. Carole authored Kingfisher Knowledge: Stars and Planets, I Wonder Why Stars Twinkle and Other Questions About Space, and Astronomy, and she was a chapter contributor to The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia. Before turning to full-time writing, she was curator and then the head of the observatory at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England.
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