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The perfect guide for anyone interested in stargazing for the first time, Exploring the Starry Sky features large, colorful, user-friendly star maps and includes simple directions for finding all of the major stars and constellations visible from the northern hemisphere. Two star charts display the major sights to be seen from suburban or rural locations, for each season, and more detailed maps spotlight special regions of interest. Robert Burnham has been an amateur astronomer since the mid-1950s. He has been a senior editory of Astronomy magazine and is the author of many books and CD-ROMS, including Comet Hale-Bopp: Find and Enjoy the Great Comet (Cambridge, 1997) Comet Explorer, and Great Comets (Cambridge, 2000).
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Exploring the Starry Sky, Robert Burnham, Wil Tirion
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- Released
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- Title
- Exploring the Starry Sky
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Robert Burnham, Wil Tirion
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Released
- 2003
- Format
- Spiral
- Pages
- 24
- ISBN10
- 0521802512
- ISBN13
- 9780521802512
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Science & Math, Space, Astronomy
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- The perfect guide for anyone interested in stargazing for the first time, Exploring the Starry Sky features large, colorful, user-friendly star maps and includes simple directions for finding all of the major stars and constellations visible from the northern hemisphere. Two star charts display the major sights to be seen from suburban or rural locations, for each season, and more detailed maps spotlight special regions of interest. Robert Burnham has been an amateur astronomer since the mid-1950s. He has been a senior editory of Astronomy magazine and is the author of many books and CD-ROMS, including Comet Hale-Bopp: Find and Enjoy the Great Comet (Cambridge, 1997) Comet Explorer, and Great Comets (Cambridge, 2000).