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Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope--and How to Find Them
by Guy Consolmagno, Dan M. Davis
from Cambridge University Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Good book for beginner
  Good book for a beginner with a small telescope or binoculars. gives detailed explanations about celestial objects and how to easily find them. each section corresponds to a certain season and what can be found in that time of year. where to find the planets and what to look for on the planets. contains a map of the moon. this book will definitely strike an interest in astronomy and leave you thirsting for more. there is a lot of info in the book but i wish there was more.
  some people might just want... more info

• VERY GOOD PURCHASE
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  My product was delivered 15 days earlier than planned, and in good conditions, including the package.
  The book content is very comprehensible, mainly for amateurs, as I am. I'm very satisfied to get this book, and I... more info

• THE book to start with
  For the beginning stargazer, without some sort of guide (either a knowledgable person or a great book), a new telescope is all but useless. Even computerized "go-to" telescopes are surprisingly disappointing; sure, they'll take you straight to the sights, but they won't tell you what magnification to use, or what you're looking for, or whether the thing you're looking for might be too dim for you to see at all, so that most of the time you'll find yourself staring at a bunch of stars and wondering what the... more info

• Great roadmap for finding nighttime sky objects
  This is an excellent book for amateur astronomers who would like direction on exactly where and how to find 100 of the most interesting nighttime sky objects -- nebula, planets, galaxies, double-doubles, star clusters, etc. Be advised that this is not a coffee table book full of breathtaking color photos straight from Hubble or a NASA space probe. This is a book on how to star hop your way from one object to the next. The book is full of drawings that depict how to do this, and the accompanying text is... more info

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