Star Maps for Beginners 50th Anniversary Edition

Name: Star Maps for Beginners 50th Anniversary Edition
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ISBN: 9780671791872

ISBN-10: 0671791877

ISBN-13: 9780671791872

Edition: 50th 1992 (Anniversary)

Authors: Theodore Levitt, Roy K. Marshall

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Designed with the beginner in mind and useful to anyone interested in astronomy. Star Maps for Beginners is the classic guide to viewing and understanding the heavens. Its superb maps -- drawn in the shape of two crossed ellipses -- provide the reader with a unique perspective on the sky and have been widely acknowledged as the easiest system yet devised for locating any constellation at any time of the year. Now revised for the 1990s, with updated planet charts and a new section on spotting meteor showers. Star Maps for Beginners includes: 12 complete maps -- one for each month -- showing the positions of the constellations viewed from every direction a synoptic table that shows how to…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Edition: 50th
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 9/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 64
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Preface


Explanatory Notes


The History and Development of the Constellations


Motions in the Sky


The Planets as Bright Stars


The January Sky


The February Sky


The March Sky


The April Sky


The May Sky


The June Sky


The July Sky


The August Sky


The September Sky


The October Sky


The November Sky


The December Sky


Beyond The Unaided Eye


The Sun's Family


Meteors: ""Hot Rods"" of the Solar System