Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars

By Patrick Moore

Book Overview

This book describes bow the owner of binoculars can use them for astronomical observation. A full description of the 'binocular sky' is given, with details of all the most interesting objects. On a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521555388
• ISBN13: 9780521555388
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.5" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

condensed material - not a book for dabblers

Its one of the well written books I've come across about scanning the night skies through binoculars. If you simply want to point your binoculars anywhere in the sky after consulting a map, this book will not likely appeal too much. The first chapter takes us through the big dipper and sets a good foundation for understanding the movement of stars during night and during the year (every star sets 4 minutes earlier than the previous night; orientation of big dipper around the year; how to measure angular distances using anchor points; characteristics of stars and Hertzsprung-Russell sequence etc.) All in the first chapter, and really a good amount of information presented briefly to give any intelligent reader the tools necessary for finding his/her way across the sky.