Turn Left at Orion
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Turn Left at Orion

Hundreds of Night Sky Objects to See in a Home Telescope – and How to Find Them

  1. 258 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Turn Left at Orion

Hundreds of Night Sky Objects to See in a Home Telescope – and How to Find Them

About this book

With over 100,000 copies sold since first publication, this is one of the most popular astronomy books of all time. It is a unique guidebook to the night sky, providing all the information you need to observe a whole host of celestial objects. With a new spiral binding, this edition is even easier to use outdoors at the telescope and is the ideal beginner's book. Keeping its distinct one-object-per-spread format, this edition is also designed for Dobsonian telescopes, as well as for smaller reflectors and refractors, and covers Southern hemisphere objects in more detail. Large-format eyepiece views, positioned side-by-side, show objects exactly as they are seen through a telescope, and with improved directions, updated tables of astronomical information and an expanded night-by-night Moon section, it has never been easier to explore the night sky on your own. Many additional resources are available on the accompanying website, www.cambridge.org/turnleft.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2011
Edition
4
eBook ISBN
9781139157735
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Astronomy & Astrophysics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. How do you get to Albireo?
  6. How to use this book
  7. Using your telescope
  8. Know your telescope
  9. The Moon
  10. The Planets
  11. Seasonal skies: January–March
  12. Seasonal skies: April–June
  13. Seasonal skies: July–September
  14. Seasonal skies: October–December
  15. Northern skies
  16. Southern skies
  17. Where do you go from here?
  18. Behind the eyepiece
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. Tables
  21. Index
  22. What, where, and when to observe
  23. Finding geostationary satellites

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