Stars (Collins Gem)

By Ian Ridpath and Wil Tirion

Book Overview

This full color highly illustrated and engaging compact guide to stars, asteroids, meteors and comets, presents a world of possibility in your pocket. This Smithsonian Gem features individual charts for all 88 constellations of the Northern and Southern hemispheres, complete with star charts and a star atlas of the entire sky. It details the brightest stars and objects of interest which can be seen with the naked eye, binoculars and small telescopes. An ideal book for practical observation of the stars throughout the world all year round.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060818662
• ISBN13: 9780060818661
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 4.8" x 0.8" x 3.3"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding Guide to the night sky

One of the best small guides for the amateur observer ever published. The comentary of Ian Ridpath and the great constelation diagrams of Wil Tirion are perfect. Anyone interested in a guide book small enough in size to be carried in a small pocket should check this one out.