This great book is a comprehensive companion manual to elementary astronomy. It is ideal for the student of astronomy or for anyone who wants to learn about the universe and the bodies that exist within it.

The book is written as a companion to conventional astronomy books and is designed to help enhance the understanding of astronomy through practical observation. It contains information on the astronomical bodies, calculations, how to view them and how to record and plot data. The book is divided into sections covering different astronomical phenomena with exercises and the contents include:

• Stars and Constellations
• The Planets – orbits and satellites
• The Sun – rotation period and sunspots
• The Moon – Lunar topography, features and eclipse
• Time and Position – Motions of the starts and telling time
• Meteors
• Clusters
• Instruments – Telescopes, Lenses and Mirrors
• Spectra
• Galaxies
• Appendices including Star Chart, Ecliptic Map and Logarithms

This book comes as an A4 paperback and is packed with 299 pages of information including many tables, charts, black and white diagrams and appendices.

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