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Summary: An absolute must for your first astronomy, observing book
Review: There are so many books out there but this one really gets you to the subjects you want to see with a small scope or binoculars. It's not over detailed but enough information to educate and entertain. Objects are easy to find with this book and lots of information as to what to look for BEFORE you buy a scope. Explains the differences and advantages of scopes etc. Planatey data is in depth for a beginner,as well.
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Summary: Great astronomy intro, but leaves you wanting more.
Review: This is a great first book for budding amateur astronomers. It has easy to understand starhopping guidelines which really make learning the sky very easy. The problem is with the charts. They are good for learning the constelations but are not very detailed as far as deep sky objects. When you are trying to starhop to an object's position, the lack of faint stars makes the process very difficult. A dissapointing quality in an otherwise good book.
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Summary: A must have book
Review: this book is a must have for anyone just beginning astronomy or just wanting to look up at the night sky and really know what you are looking at. It makes the most of any stargazing experience
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: Terrance Dickinson is an astronomical genius, but he explains the information in the book so that all can understand and absorb the information. You don't have to be an astrophysicist to understand this book. This book should be on the shelf of ANY person interested in astronomy, amateur, or professional. I enjoy reading his books, because once you really get into the information, you feel as if you are going on a journey into the cosmos.
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Summary: Great for Binocular fans...
Review: Dickinson is a master. He writes cleanly and clearly and has this knack of passing on his enthusiasm to the reader in his prose. But what I really enjoyed about the book is the way in which he encourages readers *not* to go out and buy a several-hundred-dollar telescope, favouring instead binoculars.The book is chock full of things to see for anyone with a decent pair of binocs. Combined with a chapter on how to do deep space photography, the book is endlessly useful for the novice right up to the hard-core back yard astronomer. The latest edition covers eclipses, comets and other things in the night sky until 2010. Mine is already well thumbed and I just got it last week.
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Summary: Excellent for the beginner
Review: I am a beginning amateur astronomer and I really couldn't ask for more. The photographs are extremely beautiful and everything is covered well. It even has instruction for building a barn door drive.
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Summary: Very good - with one big caveat
Review: This is truly a good, useful book for beginners. The spiral binding is great for the field and the maps are cleverly designed for red flashlights. The map details are minimal but useful. They aren't always precise but they will help get you started, and they are the high point of an attractive book. One big annoyance: the maps don't cover all regions of the sky. They should. Expand the book by 20-30 pages or remove some of the stuff you see everywhere else, and you have it. Why leave out all sorts of interesting areas of the sky?
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Summary: Very good book for any astronomer!
Review: Terence Dickinson's book NightWatch is outstanding! He covers just about everything that has to do with astronomy. For ex he tells you how to put out a telescope to all about the moon and sky. If you don't have this book you have to get it!
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Summary: Makes You Feel At Home At Night
Review: This book is an excellent introduction to the universe and where we fit in it (cosmologically not philosophically). It really helps you appreciate the grandeur of the play that takes place overhead every night, and that makes it fun to drag that telescope (or those binoculars!) out of your closet. One excerpt...did you ever think how rare it is to have solar eclipses? Right now, the moon is 400 times smaller than the sun, but it is also 400 times closer, so we get a near perfect eclipse. Since the moon is slowly moving away from the earth, this won't be true in 5,000 years so enjoy it while it lasts. By the way, the reviewer that complains about the RED TYPE is absolutely wrong. The author clearly states that some of the EXTRA information on the charts is written in red so as not to clutter up the diagram when you are out at night. All of the NECESSARY information is NOT written in RED on the star charts. Buy this book and you will see (and enjoy! ).
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Summary: Great book for beginner or more advanced amateur
Review: Great illustrations and a good overview of astronomy. I loved the chapter that describes our place in the universe by starting with a cube that just contains the earh and expanding it step by step until it encompasses the entire universe.
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