Good book "The Australian Guide To Stargazing"

[Sparksinspace]

Just want to share a book that I really enjoyed and an excellent guide for beginner's. the best thing I like about it is the way they used eyepiece drawings and black and white photos. I'm new to astronomy and. A don't have a telescope capable to take photos and. B would rather be in the moment looking and feeling the night and the night sky.


The drawings are excellent and the binocular and wide angle black and white photos give a true representation of the sky I would see not a glossy high resolution stacked photo.


If the author Gregg Thompson and astrophotograher Steve Quirk are members on here than Thank you for the inspirational book :thanx:

[iborg]

Hi



I recieved the book from my Dad, but, hadn't yet read it.


I will make sure that I do get it now.


Thank you for your comments.


Printed 1995



Philip

[Startrek]

Yes I agree this book is a good introduction to astronomy

If the astronomy bug bites you which I’m sure it will , an absolute must have book for the beginner to intermediate amateur astronomer published annually is Astronomy 2018 Australia - Your guide to the night sky ( Quasar Publishing - Glenn Dawes, Peter Northfield and Ken Wallace )

An easy to read astronomy book which provides comprehensive information on visual stargazing, buying your first telescope , month by month astronomical events and diary , pictorial images, graphs, tables, solar system and deep sky object information Etc ....An extremely useful tool in your beginner astronomical toolbox

Definitely worth buying a copy !!

Cheers

[Sparksinspace]

yes the "almanac" as I call it is great. it shows you each month what to look at and also gives a nice graph of when the planets rise, set, when they are at opposition and when they transit.