Skywatch: Eyes-On Activities for Getting to Know the Stars, Planets and Galaxies

by Peter Lancaster Brown

A practical introduction to the night sky and what can be seen there with the naked eye, binoculars, and telescopes, including stars, planets, constellations, and asteroids.

136 pages, Paperback

First published September 16, 1993

About the author

Peter Lancaster Brown was born in Yorkshire in 1927, and has travelled the world, working in turn as a surveyor, geologist, miner, beachcomber, engineer, prospector, biologist and free-lance writer. He liver for a number of years in the Australian Outback and then spent a hazardous year on a remove Antarctic island.