Starfinder


Pick up the new edition of this robust and practical interactive star gazing kit and find everything you need to observe, understand, and enjoy the night sky. Whether you’re a complete beginner or an accomplished astronomer, Starfinder is your up-to-date guide to star gazing.

Explaining how to recognize simple signposts in the sky, containing a monthly guide to the skies of both the northern and southern hemisphere, and featuring a section on observing the Moon, planets, and oth

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Moonwalk with Your Eyes: A Pocket Field Guide (Astronomer’s Pocket Field Guide)

Of all the many things we can look at in the night sky, the Moon is one of the richest in its ever-changing detail, as changes in light and shadow daily transform what you can see of every feature. Whether you use binoculars, a small telescope or a large one,you will find the Moon offers new horizons rich in exploration opportunities.

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50 Universe Ideas You Really Need to Know


For millennia humanity has gazed in wonder at the night sky, tracked the motions of the planets and attempted to explain our place in the Universe. But only in our own time has the true scale, the astonishing variety and the remarkable strangeness of the cosmos come clearly into focus. The pace and sophistication of recent scientific discovery has been breathtaking, but breakthroughs are often difficult to understand and their impact is hard to fully appreciate. In Universe – 50 Ideas You Really

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The Lawnchair Astronomer


An easy-to-read guide to charting the night sky from one’s own backyard shows the best way to see the planets and galaxies, how to buy astronomy equipment, and when to watch for eclipses and meteor showers.

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Boy Scouts of America’s Deck of Stars


Use these easy-to-carry, glow-in-the-dark star charts to find your way around the night sky and locate star formations. Each constellation card will show width and depth icons, locator map, star map, constellation figures, and visibility icons indicating naked-eye observation, binoculars, or telescope required.

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Don’t Know Much About the Universe: Everything You Need to Know About Outer Space but Never Learned (Don’t Know Much About…)


Who dug those canals on Mars?
What was the biblical star of Bethlehem?
Were the pyramids built by extraterrestrials?
From the ancients who charted the heavens to Star Trek, The X-files, and Apollo 13, outer space has intrigued people through the ages. Yet most of us look up at the night sky and feel totally in the dark when it comes to the basic facts about the universe. Kenneth C. Davis steps into that void with a lively and readable guide to the discoveries, theories, and real p

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The Sky Is Not The Limit : Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist


As the youngest-ever Director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil de Grasse Tyson is America’s best-known astrophysicist, constantly called upon by the media to explain news-making scientific phenomena such as the discovery of water on Mars. How did an African American kid growing up in the Bronx, expected by everyone to become a star athlete, not an intellectual, become an extraordinarily successful scientist? This is the fascinating and moving account of Tyson’s love affair with the night sky, beg

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