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REVIEW ARCHIVES Refractors Barlow
Lenses LINKS FAVORITE LINKS NASA
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Review I bought this book about 2 years while I was still a real
beginner with no experience. The beautiful pictures took me to it and after
reading it I got hooked to astronomy. "Skywatching" is a
hardback book (285 pages printed on very good paper) that deals with all the
basics of amateur astronomy but is not designed for field use. It's divided into
4 major sections: 1. Stars and Galaxies- describes the lives of stars, clusters,
galaxies... 2.Skywatching tools and techniques- a very useful chapter to the
beginning amateur which familiarizes you with the different telescope and
binocular types, observation techniques, astrophotography ... 3.A guide to the
sky-this chapter is to my mind the biggest negative of the book. Just a page for
every constellation (88 of them) usually describing just one or two objects in
altogether with a map of it and the surrounding constellations. I think it would
be much better to have more pages devoted to the major constellations and their
objects! 4.a tour of the solar system -talks about all of the planets, the Sun
& Moon. There is a great photomap of the moon, which I scanned and printed,
and now use as my moon map. At the end there's a useful index. Submitted by Mario Pallua - mario_pallua@yahoo.com - Zagreb, Croatia
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