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  1. Advanced Skywatching: The Backyard Astronomer's Guide to Starhopping and Exploring the Universe (Nature Company Guides) by Alan Dyer, Robert A. Garfinkle, et all 1997-10

41. Green Witch Astronomy Software
An overview of the basics of astronomy; Hints and tips on skywatching analyse dramatic cosmic events and print accurate star maps, plus much, much more!
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Starry Night Complete Space and Astronomy Pack

If you're new to astronomy, or if you're looking for the perfect gift for someone who is just getting started, then you'll want to take advantage of this great offer.
  • Two CD-ROMs of Starry Night software with 50 interactive, guided tours to get you started exploring our solar system
  • Deep Space Explorer CD-ROM to take you beyond the Milky Way to the outer reaches of space
  • SkyTheater DVD, over a hour-and-a-half of original movies about space
  • Starry Night Companion, a bonus 192-page illustrated book
The Starry Night astronomy software allows you to:
  • View a realistic depiction of the night sky from anywhere on Earth or the solar system
  • Find your way around the sky easily with 50 interactive, guided tours, including:
    • Seasonal Tours of the stars and constellations
    • Our Solar System
    • Top Ten Brightest Stars
    • Top Twenty Star Clusters, Nebulae and Galaxies
    • Best of Show from the Hubble Space Telescope
    • Blast off to visit any planet in the solar system, its moons or the Milky Way

42. What's Up?
Plan your skywatching sessions by visiting several of the better online sky guides . Skymaps.com free monthly star maps, available in Adobe Acrobat PDF
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Visit the Sandburg Sky Poetry Web page, including CSMS student-authored sky poems.
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What's Up in the Sky?
Plan your skywatching sessions by visiting several of the better online sky guides...

43. LII - Results For "astronomy"
This site consists of nine main maps of the universe, ranging from the neareststars to the sun, Provides tips on skywatching and using the star charts.
http://www.lii.org/search?searchtype=subject;query=Astronomy;subsearch=Astronomy

44. Dummies::Astronomy For Dummies, 2nd Edition:Book Information
Chapter 2 Join the Crowd skywatching Activities and Resources. Chapter 3 TheWay You Watch Tonight Appendix B star maps. Appendix C Glossary.
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Author Information Table of Contents Read Excerpt: Chapter (PDF) Read Excerpt: Table of Contents (PDF) Read Excerpt: Index (PDF) Introduction. Part I: Stalking the Cosmos. Chapter 1: Seeing the Light: The Art and Science of Astronomy. Chapter 2: Join the Crowd: Skywatching Activities and Resources. Chapter 3: The Way You Watch Tonight: Terrific Tools for Observing the Skies. Chapter 4: Just Passing Through: Meteors, Comets, and Artificial Satellites. Part II: Going Once Around the Solar System. Chapter 5: A Matched Pair: Earth and Its Moon. Chapter 7: Rock On: The Asteroid Belt and Near-Earth Objects. Chapter 8: Great Balls of Gas: Jupiter and Saturn. Chapter 9: Far Out! Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Beyond. Part III: Meeting Old Sol and Other Stars. Chapter 10: The Sun: Star of the Earth. Chapter 11: Taking a Trip to the Stars.

45. EXN.ca | Discovery
Summer skywatching 99 ABOUT THE star maps All maps were created using starryNight Deluxe, by Sienna Software. email this story / print this story
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Summer Skywatching '99 The globular cluster M80, a summer sky favourite, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. (AURA/STScI/NASA)- Click for a larger image By Ivan Semeniuk , July 20, 1999
Summer is well underway and in Ivan's Universe that can only mean one thing: it's time for a grand season-ending roundup of the summer sky. As usual the summer months offer some big advantages for both novice and experienced stargazers. Of course the warm weather make it a little more comfortable to observe the night sky in the summer than in the winter. And if your vacation plans include a wilderness location then you have a good chance of seeing some truly dark skies. Finally, the evening sky at this time of year is dominated by the densest part of the Milky Way that we can see from Canada; and it's a veritable highway of astronomical delights. Throw in a meteor shower, a couple of eclipses and four bright planets and you're got a summer's worth of great stargazing! Click above for a larger image The full moon can be a haunting presence on a late summer evening. For the same seasonal reasons that the noonday sun is high in the sky during the summer, the full moon tends to be low, skirting along the murky southern horizon through the night. Depending on the landscape you're observing it in, it can make for a memorable sight.

46. Alibris: Nature Star Observation
star maps, created specifically for this book reveal to readers what can be seenwith the naked eye skywatching more books like this by Levy, David H.
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47. Alibris: Alan Dyer
Picking up where skywatching left off, here is an invaluable, advanced observer s diagrams, and star maps is a practical reference to the night sky.
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48. Ian Ridpath’s Star Tales - Constellation Mythology
This book had its origins in my skywatching guides for amateur astronomers. Chapter One stars and storytellers. Chapter Two star maps
http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/contents.htm
This book had its origins in my skywatching guides for amateur astronomers. As I came to describe each constellation, I found myself wondering about its origin and the way in which ancient people had personified it in mythology. Astronomy books did not contain satisfactory answers. They either gave no mythology at all, or they recounted stories that, I later discovered, were not true to the Greek originals. I decided to write my own book on the mythology of the constellations. The result, Star Tales , appeared in 1988 and remains a favourite of mine although it is now difficult to obtain. To make it more widely available, I have now transferred it to the web with amendments and enhancements. Further updates and improvements can be expected. Contents
Preface

Chapter One:
Stars and storytellers
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Chapter Four:
Obsolete constellations
Sources, references and acknowledgements

49. Ian Ridpath’s Star Tales – Preface
This book of star tales has its roots in a series of skywatching guides that I These star maps are works of art in themselves, and are among the most
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I should also make it clear what this book is not about: I have not tried to compare the Greek and Roman constellations with the constellations that were imagined by other cultures such as the Egyptian, Hindu or Chinese. Fascinating though the differences are, such a diversion would, I think, have taken me too far from my intended task. Neither have I delved too far into the confusing morass of speculation about the origin of the constellations; that is a job for the historian, and indeed we may never be able to provide convincing answers from the fragmentary information available.
Glossary
The Greeks and Romans had similar gods and mythological characters, but used different names for them. Hence what may sound at first to be two different characters, such as Zeus and Jupiter, are really one and the same. This table lists the Latin equivalents ( italicized names) of the major Greek characters mentioned in this book.

50. Spacegazer - Society Library
There is a handson stargazing section including detailed star maps and instructionsfor making a simple 108) A Guide to skywatching by David H. Levy
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Many of these books are old and out of date. However, most do make interesting reading and some are certainly still valid.
Burnhams Celestial Handbook by Robert Burnham, jr.: An Observers Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System:- Volume 1, Andromeda Through Cetus Volume 2, Chamaeleon Through Orion Volume3, Pavo Through Vulpecula Published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York. 1978 This is a reference guide to the celestial objects found beyond our Solar System that can be seen with telescopes ranging in size from 2 to 12 inches. Volume 1 gives a detailed introduction, providing the information necessary to understand the three volumes. The celestial objects are arranged according to the constellations in which they are found. Each constellation, in alphabetical order, is divided into double and multiple stars; variable stars; star clusters, nebulae and galaxies, and is then followed by extensive descriptive notes. Every object is given a name, celestial coordinates, classification and physical description. 2138 pages.

51. Astronomy Book Shopping
It discusses skywatching through the ages and about the tools and techniques sky from both hemispheres with highquality sky photographs and star maps.
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  • Skywatching (Nature Company Guide)
    This is a great guide to the heavens for general readers of high-school age and up. It is full of beautiful photographs and illustrations. It discusses skywatching through the ages and about the tools and techniques used. It includes sky charts and constellation maps.
  • The Cambridge Atlas of Astronomy
    This is a magnificent book of detailed information for your discovery of the Universe. It covers a broad range of material from Earth to the Universe and everything in-between.
  • Through the Eyes of Hubble : The Birth, Life, and Violent Death of Stars
    This is a great book to travel though the eyes of Hubble. You will experience the violent life of stars. It contains beautiful Hubble Space Telescope photographs of our magnificent universe.
  • The Photographic Atlas of the Stars This books shows the beautiful views of the night sky from both hemispheres with high-quality sky photographs and star maps. The entire sky is photographed down to 8th magnitude.
  • Touring the Universe Through Binoculars : A Complete Astronomer's Guidebook "This comprehensive work takes you on a personal tour of the universe using nothing more than a pair of binoculars. More comprehensive than any book currently available, it starts with Earth's nearest neighbor, the moon, and then goes on to explore each planet in the solar system, asteroids, meteors, comets and the sun. Following this, the reader is whisked away into deep space to explore celestial bodies including stars that are known and many sights less familiar. The final chapter includes a detailed atlas of deep-sky objects visible through binoculars. The appendices include guidance on how to buy, care for and maintain astronomical binoculars, tips and hints on using them, and detailed information on several home-made binocular mounts." -

52. Wiley-VCH - Maran, Stephen P. - Astronomy For Dummies
Featuring star maps, charts, gorgeous fullcolor photographs, and easy-to-follow Chapter 2 Join the Crowd skywatching Activities and Resources.
http://www.wiley-vch.de/publish/en/books/bySubjectPH00/newTitles200507/0-7645-84

53. Deastore - Knowledge Has No Limits
together with a starfinder to make skywatching even easier. This astronomicalatlas features conventional star and galaxy maps,
http://www.deastore.com/index.asp?ultima=true&category=PGT

54. Astrolinks
Our popular bimonthly astronomy magazine is the perfect skywatching companion for A book about 3D star maps of Nearby stars, the Pleiades, Orion,
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The most posted questions concerning astronomy Link Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Simply put, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is the most ambitious astronomical survey project ever undertaken. The survey will map in detail one-quarter of the entire sky, determining the positions and absolute brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects. It will also measure the distances to more than a million galaxies and quasars. Apache Point Observatory, site of the SDSS telescopes, is operated by the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC). Link This is a directory of more than 2.8 million of the world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each town and other data such as longitude, latitude, elevation etc. Link The first pictures of the Earth seen from Mars Link Pictures, Wallpapers, Videos from Hubble photos, awesome!

55. Bad Astronomy And Universe Today Forum - Astronomy Books
I purchased skywatching and Advanced skywatching for my 12 year old daughter.These are excellent books with plenty of sky maps and star locations.
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56. Geller's June 2004 Night Sky Highlights
Good skywatching resources. The Messier Objects list Abrams Planetarium Skywatcher s The Brightest stars Skymaps dot com (free monthly star maps)
http://www.physics.gmu.edu/~hgeller/NOVACsky/june04.html
Some highlights for the night sky in June 2004
Thursday 3 June 2004
  • Moon is at perigee
  • Look for Comet LINEAR near Alphard (6 degrees away)

Friday 4 June 2004
  • Look for Venus immediately after sunset towards western horizon
  • Saturn, Mars and Jupiter in the western sky too

Tuesday 8 June 2004
Wednesday 9 June 2004
  • Last Quarter Moon at 4:02PM EDT
  • Moon rises after midnight, on your meridian after sunrise

Friday 11 June 2004
  • Look hard for Pluto (mag 14) it is at opposition
  • Pluto is in the constellation Serpens

Monday 14 June 2004 (Flag Day)
  • Look for Mars near Pollux
  • The earliest sunrise occurs this day even though it's not the day with the longest number of daylight hours
  • It is Flag Day for the USA

Tuesday 15 June 2004
  • Look early for Venus, now as a morning star
  • Look for the Moon near the Pleaides

Friday 18 June 2004
  • Look for the crescent Moon after sunset
  • Try to find Saturn, you are not likely to see it in the evening for a while

Sunday 20 June 2004 (Father's Day)
  • Summer solstice occurs in the evening (8:57PM)
  • Look for the Moon near Pollux

Monday 21 June 2004
  • Look for the stars of the Summer Triangle
  • The Summer Triangle consists of Vega of Lyra, Deneb of Cygnus, and Altair of Aquila

57. Wiley::Astronomy For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Chapter 2 Join the Crowd skywatching Activities and Resources. Appendix AFinding the Planets 2006 to 2010. Appendix B star maps.
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58. Astro Resources Rev A
It includes lots of star maps and tables on where to look for the planets Earth Sky skywatching Center contains information on interesting things to
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Books The Stars: A New Way to See Them by H.A. Rey (Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1997) This book is an excellent introduction to learning to identify bright stars and all the constellations. It includes lots of star maps and tables on where to look for the planets for each month through the year 2006. Turn Left At Orion by Guy Consolmagno (Published by Cambridge Univ. Press, Third Edition, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 2000) This book contains viewing tips as well as clear instructions on how to find 100 interesting night-sky objects. It also offers realistic sketches of what you will see in the eyepiece. Nightwatch by Terence Dickinson (Published by Firefly Books; 3rd edition; November, 1998) Excerpt from review on Amazon.com:
Terence Dickinson covers all the problems beginners face, starting with the fact that the night sky does not look the way a modern city-dweller expects. He discusses light pollution, how to choose binoculars and telescopes, how to pronounce the names of stars and constellations, telescope mounts, averted vision, and why the harvest moon looks especially bright. Most of the lovely photographs in the book were taken by amateurs, which gives the section on astrophotography a particularly inspirational gleam.
The star charts are very handy, each covering a reasonable field of view and mapping the most interesting amateur objects. He gives good advice for planet watching, which he notes "is one of the few astronomical activities that can be conducted almost as well from the city as from dark rural locations."

59. Powell's Books - Astronomy For Dummies 2ND Edition By Stephen P Maran
Featuring star maps, charts, gorgeous fullcolor photographs, Discover howto Enjoy skywatching in your backyard Identify planets and stars Explore our
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60. Books: Observational Astronomy
40 Nights to Knowing the Sky A NightBy-Night skywatching Primer by Fred Though it has star maps (arranged by season), it is clearly not that kind of
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Observational astronomy My favorite hobby, but not a book category that I frequently read. There are some gems here though. Last updated 365 Starry Nights : An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year by Chet Raymo an introductory level book on astronomy organized by the calendar with a brief essay for every day of the year. Raymo gives a guided tour of the night sky, spending several nights on each topic, and covers such topics as star formation, galaxy clusters, and some of the weightier questions of the universe. 40 Nights to Knowing the Sky : A Night-By-Night Skywatching Primer by Fred Schaaf an excellent and well-rounded introduction to observation astronomy for beginners, but contains much for seasoned observers as well. Schaff is the columnist for Sky and Telescope and his writings have always made me want to go out and look for the things he talks about. The Backyard Astronomer's Guide by Terrence Dickinson(Preface), Alan Dyer (Preface) Burnham's Celestial Handbook : An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System by Robert Burnham What can be said about this three-volume classic that hasn't been said thousands of times before? Burnham's combination of history, poetry, and science are captivating and enthralling. Though some of the science is no longer up to date, remember, you're not writing your dissertation, you're sharing the wonder of the night sky with a guy who's seen everything and done your homework for you. A timeless classic.

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