The Stargazer's Guide: How to Read Our Night Sky

by Winterburn, Emily

• ISBN13: 9780061789694
• ISBN10: 0061789690
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Winterburn offers an accessible and informative guide to reading the night sky. After reading this book, viewing the night sky will be a much more meaningful and rewarding experience.--"Astronomy Now."

Author Biography

As the curator of astronomy at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Emily Winterburn was responsible for one of the world's most important astronomy collections. She has written for the BBC and Astronomy Now magazine and has appeared on the BBC's What the Ancients Did for Us, the Channel 4 News, and In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg. She lives in Yorkshire, England, with her husband and two children and works at the Leeds University History of Science Museum.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
April and the Bears	p. 10
May and Hercules	p. 37
June and the Sun	p. 63
July and Bayer's Menagerie	p. 82
August and Lacaille's Mountain	p. 102
September and the Milky Way	p. 121
October and Orion the Hunter	p. 145
November and Shooting Stars	p. 164
December and Queen Cassiopeia	p. 184
January, Tea and Stars	p. 203
February, Jason and the Argonauts	p. 222
March, Astrology and the Zodiac	p. 241
Afterword	p. 265
Further Reading	p. 268
Picture Credits	p. 271
Index	p. 274
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