The Star Guide

Learn How to Read the Night Sky Star by Star

Robin Kerrod (Autor)

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160 Seiten

2006 | 2nd Revised ed.
A & C Black Publishers Ltd
978-0-7136-7612-9 (ISBN)

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Featuring more than 60 star charts, this is a comprehensive guide to the night sky month-by-month and season-by-season, as different stars and constellations come and go. Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are among the highlights of the photographs. Included is a planisphere which provides a tool for checking the stars and constellations.

The Star Guide is easy to use, lavishly illustrated and expertly written by one of the world's leading writers on astronomy and space. More than 60 star charts act as a comprehensive guide to the night sky month-by-month and season-by-season, as different stars and constellations come and go. Spectacular images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are among the highlights of the full-colour photographs. Included is a planisphere which provides an invaluable tool for checking the stars and constellations visible every hour of every night of the year. Backing up visual observations of the night sky, information sections provide essential reading to help understand the nature of stars and galaxies and what makes the Universe tick.

Robin Kerrod is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society. He is well known on both sides of the Atlantic for his bestselling books on astronomy, space, and the sciences, with other 130 titles to his credit.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.4.2006
Zusatzinfo	clr photos,60 star charts
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	250 x 250 mm
Gewicht	770 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
ISBN-10	0-7136-7612-4 / 0713676124
ISBN-13	978-0-7136-7612-9 / 9780713676129
Zustand	Neuware