Stargazers' Almanac: A Monthly Guide to the Stars and Planets - Bob Mizon

Stargazers' Almanac: A Monthly Guide to the Stars and Planets

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Buch | Softcover
32 Seiten
2014
Floris Books (Verlag)
978-1-78250-108-4 (ISBN)
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A beautiful illustrated monthly guide to exploring the stars and planets without a telescope.
Explore the night skies with this beautiful illustrated monthly guide to the stars and planets.
This large-format almanac allows you to step outside and track the planets, locate the Milky Way, recognise the constellations of the zodiac and watch meteor showers.
Stargazers' Almanac 2015 is a beautiful month-by-month guide to the night skies. It's designed specifically for naked-eye astronomy -- no telescope required! -- making it ideal for beginners, children and backyard astronomers. It has become a popular Christmas gift -- and one which lasts the whole year round.
Each monthly chart features two views of the night sky looking north and south, and a visual guide to the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets. The notes include fascinating insights into the science, history, folklore and myths of the stars and planets.
Stargazers' Almanac 2015 also features:
-- Advice on how to navigate the night sky
-- Overhead reference map of the sky
-- Reference plan of constellations
-- Glossary of constellations and Latin names
-- Glossary of brightness of stars
-- Guide to the signs of the zodiac and how they relate to the stars
-- Loop and eyelet for easy wall hanging; presented in a sturdy cardboard gift envelope
The almanac is endorsed by the British Astronomical Association's Campaign for Dark Skies. 'Sky glow' affects nearly all Britain's night skies with the result that the beauty of our starlit skies, twilight and emerging daybreak are being drowned in an orange sodium glow.
Suitable for astronomy enthusiasts throughout the Northern Hemisphere's temperate (non-tropical) latitudes.

Bob Mizon, MBE, is co-ordinator of the Campaign for Dark Skies. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1985, and has been associated with the Wessex Astronomical Society in various offices for many years. Since 1996, he has provided a full-time mobile planetarium service to south central England, and has taken the experience of the night sky to nearly 80,000 people, mostly schoolchildren.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 17.7.2014
Zusatzinfo colour charts and illustrations
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 426 x 306 mm
Gewicht 430 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Weltraum / Astronomie
ISBN-10 1-78250-108-8 / 1782501088
ISBN-13 978-1-78250-108-4 / 9781782501084
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