By: harbinjer

harbinjer — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 08:34:33 +0000

Very good but not perfect Overall an excellent book. It has a great overview of astronomy, and some good guides in what to look for in a telescope and what to look at in a telescope once you have it. Then there are whole sky star maps, and maps broken down to smaller areas. It’s got plenty of targets for binoculars and small scopes. So if you’re just getting started and have binoculars, but no scope yet, this is a great book. Let me emphasize (as the book does) that a department store telescope is likely worse than a $20 binocular, because it will lead to more frustration than it is worth.I do wish that the charts maybe had finder views of a few objects as well, perhaps in the bottom margin. A second important thing would be to warn users about what they CAN’T see from an urban or suburban location. You might think that magnitude 7-8 objects would be just visible, but many aren’t. Many things that are easy from a dark sky site are very hard or impossible from a city. It doesn’t emphasize this…

By: Frank A. Whorton "Astronomy Lover"

Frank A. Whorton "Astronomy Lover" — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 08:21:33 +0000

DON'T BUY THIS BOOK 0

Comments on: NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe

By: harbinjer

By: Frank A. Whorton "Astronomy Lover"