Celestial Delights: The Best Astronomical Events Through 2020 (repost)
Celestial Delights: The Best Astronomical Events Through 2020 (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series) by Francis Reddy
English | ISBN: 1461406099 | 2011 | PDF | 423 pages | 14.1 MB
English | ISBN: 1461406099 | 2011 | PDF | 423 pages | 14.1 MB
Celestial Delights is the essential "TV Guide" for the sky. Through extensive graphics integrated with an eight-year-long calendar of sky events, it provides a look at "don't miss" sky events, mostly for naked-eye and binocular observing. It is organized by ease of observation – lunar phases and the brighter planets come first, with solar eclipses, the aurora, and comets coming later.
This third edition also includes a hefty dose of sky lore, astronomical history, and clear overviews of current science. It provides a handy reference to upcoming naked-eye events, with information broken out in clear and simple diagrams and tables that are cross-referenced against a detailed almanac for each year covered. This book puts a variety of information all in one place, presents it in a friendly way that does not require prior in-depth astronomical knowledge, and provides the context and historical background for understanding events that astronomy software or web sites lack.