observers' manuals

Describes twenty of the most prominent constellations, including the Big Dipper, Orion, and Cancer; explains how to locate them; and provides instructions for related activities.

Describes what stars and constellations can be seen in the night sky and provides instructions for finding them.

Provides advice on selecting the right tools for the kind of skywatching you wish to pursue and includes useful hints on sketching and photographing celestial sights, and offers twenty telescope tours for both Northern and Southern Hemisphere observers.

Bibliography: p. 111-113. A guide to starwatching using the naked eye, binoculars, or a telescope. Contains maps and star charts.

Profiles fifty sights in the night sky, such as constellations, planets, and meteor showers, describing their unique traits and explaining how to observe them.

This guide for the backyard astronomer provides basic information, offers activity ideas, and gives construction details and assembly drawings for six telescopes.

A pocket guide to the night sky that explains how to identify planets, moons, stars, constellations, meteors, and other objects.

Introduces the basics of astronomy through a variety of projects, including a model of a lunar eclipse and a chart of a comet's path.

An introduction to the sky for those with little knowledge of astronomy.

Describes the composition and behavior of stars and notes which ones can be seen at different times of the year.