Turn Left at Orion: Hundreds of Night Sky Objects to See in a Home Telescope – and How to Find Them

by Guy Consolmagno , Dan M. Davis

• ISBN13: 9780521153973
• ISBN10: 0521153972
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Spiral Bound
• Copyright: 2011-11-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

With over 100,000 copies sold since first publication, this is one of the most popular astronomy books of all time. It is a unique guidebook to the night sky, providing all the information you need to observe a whole host of celestial objects. With a new spiral binding, this edition is even easier to use outdoors at the telescope and is the ideal beginner's book. Keeping its distinct one-object-per-spread format, this edition is also designed for Dobsonian telescopes, as well as for smaller reflectors and refractors, and covers Southern hemisphere objects in more detail. Large-format eyepiece views, positioned side-by-side, show objects exactly as they are seen through a telescope, and with improved directions, updated tables of astronomical information and an expanded night-by-night Moon section, it has never been easier to explore the night sky on your own.

Table of Contents

How do you get to Albireo?

How to use this book

The Moon

The planets

Seasonal skies: January-March

Seasonal skies: April-June

Seasonal skies: July-September

Seasonal skies: October-December

Northern skies

Southern skies

Where do you go from here?

Index

Behind the eyepiece

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