Astronomical Star Guides & Charts, Stargazing - Amateur's Manuals
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Overview
If you want to know how to choose the right telescope for your needs, The Cambridge Guide to Stargazing with Your Telescope is the guide for you. Robin Scagell gives straightforward explanations of how they work and of how one can progress from first-time user to skilled observer. He offers practical help for setting up and using any telescope and provides lists of objects to look at with different telescope sizes, including the Sun, Moon and planets, comets, asteroids, star clusters, variable and double stars, supernovae, nebulae and galaxies. Aimed principally at newcomers to astronomy, of all ages, this indispensable resource describes the full range of internationally available telescopes, with examples of objects to observe taken from both hemispheres, appropriate for all observing conditions, It also imparts advice about accessories, such as eye-pieces and filters, as well as suggestions for telescope photography and choice of camera and film type.Editorials
Booknews
This pocket-sized guide provides great information for beginners, including how telescopes work and how to pick a good one, what to expect at a star party (lots of stooped-over people peering at fuzzy gray smudges), how to use star charts and setting circles, what to observe and how, and how to choose accessories (e.g., eyepieces, filters, camera adapters, CCDs and off-axis guiders). Scagell, an astrophotographer, includes invaluable step-by-step techniques for testing binoculars and telescopes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
October 9, 2000
Publisher
Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Pages
160
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780521784481