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Photo-guide to the Constellations: A Self-Teaching Guide to Finding Your Way Around the Heavens (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series)
by Chris Kitchin
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Springer (2000-03-17)
ISBN: 3540762035
EAN: 9783540762034
Dewy Decimal #: 523.80222
Paperback: 149 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: 051908011
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No Underlining or Highlighting...minor wear on cover
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
There are many books on finding your way round the night sky, but the Photo-guide to the Constellations is unique in showing photographs of how the sky really looks under a variety of different seeing conditions, from city outskirts to the almost-perfect skies deep in the countryside. Along with a detailed step-by-step guide to "star hopping" and other useful techniques, these make this an invaluable guide for all newcomers to astronomy.
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Customer Reviews
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Diagrams are very good; Photos are disappointing.
Rating  (3)
Date: 1998-07-31
10 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
The book's main goal is to assist the reader in learning the sky pattern. This book has very nice wide-angle diagrams which show from 3 to 10 constellations each. There are helpful, dotted "star-hopping" lines and narration. Now for the photos: The author writes that there are 3 photos for every part of the sky: 1) from a very dark location, 2) from a less dark location, and 3) from a city location. This is so the reader could see how light pollution affects the sky's appearance. The photos are disappointing. First, it is hard to see anything in them unless you have magnifying glasses or are looking under strong light. Secondly, for each part of the sky, the 3 photos don't exactly match. This impedes side-to-side comparisons of the same part of the sky. The book would be much better, if for each diagram there was only one: more easily viewable photo matching exactly what is in the diagram.
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