The Backyard Astronomer's Guide
Key features
- •A 20-page full-color Atlas of the Milky Way provides location and context for hundreds of celestial objects mentioned throughout the book.
- •A chapter on Astrophotography with Digital Cameras specifies what equipment works best and how to use it to collect a color gallery of celestial portraits.
- •Telescopes for Recreational Astronomy features assessments of a wide range of new telescopes, from models for beginners to those for veteran astronomy enthusiasts, with special emphasis on computerized telescopes and how they work.
- •Accessory Catalog spotlights the best of the accessories and flags the frivolous and irrelevant.
- •Three practical appendices: Polar Aligning Your Telescope; Optics Cleaning and Collimation; Testing Your Telescope Optics.
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The Backyard Astronomer's Guide
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A must have for your collection.
Kindle Customer✓ Verified Purchase•July 8, 2017
You should add this to your shelf, for it's filled with lavish details about every aspect of astronomy. The chapters on purchasing a telescope are worth their weight in gold! Well worth the purchase price for this lovely hard cover book. Highly recommended.
... have been recommending this book for decades as the best beginners book for astronomers on the market
Steve C.✓ Verified Purchase•August 19, 2016
I have been recommending this book for decades as the best beginners book for astronomers on the market. I was the leader of the Novice group in the Saguaro Astronomy Club in Phoenix for many years and many folks bought this book under my recommendation. There is all you need to know to get started viewing, imaging and enjoying the night sky. Lot of useful info and explained very well.
Steve Coe
Steve Coe
An interesting book to learn from with a bonus of amazing pictures.
Amazon Customer✓ Verified Purchase•December 24, 2015
I bought this for my 16 year old grandson. He is in 11th grade & is interested in this topic. He really liked the book. I got it because after reviewing other books it seemed to have good information that was easy to understand, accompanied with really awesome pictures. Other books I looked at were too technical without being fun to read & in fact were very boring in the way they were written. The great pictures help a lot versus those that were just to technical. To capture a beginners attention I believe this is the book. It's for experienced people too but I'm not able to speak on that topic. From a beginners point of view, this book is well organized, attention getting and makes learning interesting & even fun.
Absolutely GREAT! For someone just starting out in amateur astronomy
Daniel E. Curtis✓ Verified Purchase•September 12, 2015
Absolutely GREAT! For someone just starting out in amateur astronomy, I don't think you could find a better information source. I bought this after having read "Nightwatch". They compliment each other perfectly!
Large, lovely book
apoem✓ Verified Purchase•February 5, 2014
We recently bought a telescope so that we could do some stargazing. We are new to star gazing using a telescope and I wanted a book that would help us learn more about space and what we were seeing.
This book is on the larger side. It is lovely. There are pretty color pictures. The are also some great explanations of what is in space.
One of the important things it does is provide lots of information about equipment, photography, etc. It has a lot of information. If I were going to buy a telescope, I might start by purchasing this book prior to purchasing a telescope.
Worthwhile information, useful, and beautiful. Enjoy.
This book is on the larger side. It is lovely. There are pretty color pictures. The are also some great explanations of what is in space.
One of the important things it does is provide lots of information about equipment, photography, etc. It has a lot of information. If I were going to buy a telescope, I might start by purchasing this book prior to purchasing a telescope.
Worthwhile information, useful, and beautiful. Enjoy.
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