National Audubon Society Pocket Guide: Constellations - Couverture souple

National Audubon Society

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0679779981 ISBN 13 : 9780679779988

Editeur : Knopf, 1995

Synopsis

Book by Chartrand Mark Tirion Wil Mechler Gary

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A portable, comprehensive field guide--brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, and designed to fit into your back pocket--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers.

Human beings have always looked to the skies: as clock and calendar, to divine the future, for spiritual guidance. Even today, astronomers study the night sky for the key to the mysteries of the universe, as they literally look back in time to when it all began. By learning your way around the sky, you can identify constellations that our ancestors knew and even search out distant galaxies and clusters of stars that may support worlds like our own. This guide covers the Northern Hemisphere skies season by season, with close-up looks at 54 constellations visible from northern latitudes, both the familiar and the less well known. This easy-to-use pocket guide is divided into four parts: introductory essays and drawings, illustrated tours of the sky, illustrated descriptions of the constellations, and appendices.

Biographie de l'auteur :

MARK R. CHARTRAND served as the Executive Director of the National Space Institute—now called the National Space Society—from 1980 to 1984. He received his Ph.D. in Astronomy from Case Western Reserve University.

WIL TIRION is a reknowned Dutch uranographer. He is the author of Sky Atlas 2000.0.

GARY MECHLER holds a Ph.D. in Astronomy from Case Western Reserve University. He teaches at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Knopf
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679779981
• ISBN 13: 9780679779988
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192