This inspiring and enriching book, a collection of essays that evokes the beauty and wonder of the night sky, explains to beginning skywatchers how to find and where to look for specific celestial objects.
Author Fred Schaaf, once described as a naturalist in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau and John Burroughs, reveals an intense love of his subject and a keen knowledge of the optimum ways of viewing astronomical phenomena with the naked eye. Schaaf not only describes such special sights as an eyelash-thin moon, a shooting star, streaking comets, and a lunar eclipse, but he also explains when and where to look for constellations and planetary conjunctions, meteor showers, rainbows, halos, and other celestial occurrences.
Most of these observations require no telescopes or other equipment, not even perfect sky conditions or long periods of special training. Technical expressions are explained as they appear in the text, and a glossary at the end defines terms and concepts.
Astronomy magazine advises anyone interested in stargazing to "find a place for [this book] on your library shelf"; and Chet Raymo, author of 365 Starry Nights, says "this is a book that will help define amateur astronomy."
- 272 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Physical SciencesSubtopic
Astronomy & AstrophysicsTable of contents
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- FOREWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION TO THE DOVER EDITION
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 - The Secrets of Seeing
- 2 - Year of the Mandala and Monarch Moon Eclipses
- 3 - The Many Suns of the Daytime Sky
- 4 - 100 Rainbows
- 5 - A Night at Meteor Cove
- 6 - Flight
- 7 - Go to Innisfree
- 8 - All the Worlds in My Window
- 9 - Making the Indoor Sky
- 10 - The Powers of Vision
- 11 - The Next Supernova
- 12 - The End of the Stars (Not One Child in Ten)
- 13 - The Best and Worst of Returns
- 14 - The Fate and Meaning of Halley’s Comet
- 15 - Walking to the Stars
- SUGGESTED READING/RESOURCE LIST
- GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS AND CONCEPTS USED FREQUENTLY IN THIS BOOK
- INDEX
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