National Audubon Society Pocket Guide: Constellations

National Audubon Society Pocket Guides

by Mark R. Chartrand, Wil Tirion, Gary Mechler

A portable, comprehensive field guide--brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, and designed to fit into your back pocket--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers.

Human beings have always looked to the skies: as clock and calendar, to divine the future, for spiritual guidance. Even today, astronomers study the night sky for the key to the mysteries of the universe, as they literally look back in time to when it all began. By learning your way around the sky, you can identify constellations that our ancestors knew and even search out distant galaxies and clusters of stars that may support worlds like our own. This guide covers the Northern Hemisphere skies season by season, with close-up looks at 54 constellations visible from northern latitudes, both the familiar and the less well known. This easy-to-use pocket guide is divided into four parts: introductory essays and drawings, illustrated tours of the sky, illustrated descriptions of the constellations, and appendices.

Genres: Nonfiction, Astronomy, Science, Reference, Guides, Space

192 pages, Paperback

First published April 25, 1995

Reviews

[sajjad · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have read a translation of it in Persian.

It is a nice book for whom willing to learn the northern sky.
It is in two parts:
First you learn whole sky month by month.
Then it learns each constellation in two pages, containing a sky chart and a page with details.

I like it, but it could be better.

[Caroline Marley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not really use full

[Xdw · Rating 3 out of 5]

Compact. Nice simple artwork showing the figures of the constellations.

[Nova · Rating 3 out of 5]

رفیق شفیق شب‌های رصد..‌.

می‌تونست یکم منظم‌تر باشه ترتیب مطالبش.

[Brian MortonAshton]

Studied and used much in stargazing.