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Originally Posted by erick
ps. Look in this thread about a book called "Heavens Above". Well worth it for someone scanning the sky with binoculars and starting from knowledge level zero like I did.
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I can definitely vouch for this book, it is absolutely amazing! So very simple to read, written like a conversation with a fellow observer with helpful and easy diagrams of constellations and directions to particular objects. Written up in order of constellation so you can look for a huge range of things in the one constellation. Even directions (with diagrams) to find the South Celestial Pole etc.
I'm still a newbie and found this book very easy to use and it helped me find a heap of things I had never thought to look for before! I'd also suggest covering it with clear plastic covering as the front page isn't very glossy and will be affected by the dew!
