Practical skywatching /
Burnham, Robert,
Practical skywatching / Robert Burnham [and 5 others] - [Place of publication not identifed] : Fog City Press, c2002 - 480 pages : color illlustrations ; 29 cm .
Includes index.
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Early Skywatching -- Chapter 2. Modern Astronomy -- Chapter 3. Skywatching Tools -- Chapter 4. Understanding the Changing Sky -- Chapter 5. Sun and Moon -- Chapter 6. The Planetary System -- Chapter 7. Stars, Galaxies and Other Lights -- Chapter 8. The Constellation -- Chapter 9. Starhopping .
How many backyard naturalists know the sky as well as they know their local trees, birds or animals? Its surprising how few nature-minded people do more than glance occasionally at the sky overhead.
9781876778910
ASTRONOMY
QB 64 .B87 2002
Practical skywatching / Robert Burnham [and 5 others] - [Place of publication not identifed] : Fog City Press, c2002 - 480 pages : color illlustrations ; 29 cm .
Includes index.
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Early Skywatching -- Chapter 2. Modern Astronomy -- Chapter 3. Skywatching Tools -- Chapter 4. Understanding the Changing Sky -- Chapter 5. Sun and Moon -- Chapter 6. The Planetary System -- Chapter 7. Stars, Galaxies and Other Lights -- Chapter 8. The Constellation -- Chapter 9. Starhopping .
How many backyard naturalists know the sky as well as they know their local trees, birds or animals? Its surprising how few nature-minded people do more than glance occasionally at the sky overhead.
9781876778910
ASTRONOMY
QB 64 .B87 2002