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Night Sky Star Wheel
by Sky Publishing  Publisher Comments Have you ever looked up in the sky and wondered exactly what it is you're seeing? If so, the Night Sky Star Wheel is what you need! Designed specifically for beginners and stargazers living in loght-polluted areas, this ingenious star wheel shows only...
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Field Guide To the Stars & Planets 4TH Edition :Peterson Field Guide
by Jay M Pasachoff Publisher Comments The new edition of this bestselling guide has been completely revised and updated to include the latest information from leading astronomical sources. Color photos throughout....
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Burnhams Celestial Handbook Volume 1 Rev Edition
by Robert Jr Burnham Publisher Comments A unique and necessary reference for amateurs and professionals alike, with comprehensive coverage of the thousands of celestial objects outside our solar system—but within the range of two- to twelve-inch telescopes. The objects are grouped...
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Planet Observers Handbook 2ND Edition
by Fred W Price Publisher Comments '\'The planets have long exerted an unusual fascination on observers of the night sky. This handbook provides the first thorough, practical guide to observing the planets for amateur astronomers. Stressing practical advice, Price shows the reader in...
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Nightwatch a Practical Guide To Viewing TH 3RD Edition
by Terence Dickinson 
Publisher Comments With 250,000 copies in print since its initial publication in 1983, NightWatch has become a standard reference guide for stargazers throughout North America. The new Third Edition expands on that success with a completely revised and updated text, more...
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An Intimate Look at the Night Sky
by Chet Raymo
Publisher Comments On one level, An Intimate Look at the Night Sky is a unique star guide: twenty-four beautiful star maps, created specifically for this book, cycle through the seasons and across the heavens, revealing what you can see with the naked eye throughout the...
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David Levy's Guide to the Night Sky
by David Levy Publisher Comments The perfect introduction for the novice astronomer, this book stirs the imagination and puts observation in a framework of social activity and personal adventure. Written by an award-winning amateur astronomer and columnist, it is a technical guide to...
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Exploring the Night Sky: The Equinox Astronomy Guide for Beginners
by Terrence Dickinson
Publisher Comments Exploring the Night Sky is aimed at novice star gazers anxious to expand their astronomical repertoire beyond the Big and Little Dippers. Dickinson has designed a superb introduction to astronomy that is clear, concise, beautifully illustrated, and very...
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Stars : a New Way To See Them ((6TH)76 Edition)
by Augusto Hans Rey Publisher Comments This is a clear, vivid text with charts and maps showing the positions of the constellations the year round....
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Earth from Space (Audubon Society Pocket Guides)
by Amy Leventer Publisher Comments National Audubon Society Pocket Guides Other guides in this series: Animal Tracks -- Birds (Eastern Region) -- Birds (Western Region) -- Birds of Lakes and Rivers -- Birds of Prey -- Birds of Sea and Shore -- Butterflies -- Cacti -- Clouds and Storms...
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Burnhams Celestial Handbook Volume 3
by Robert Jr Burnham Publisher Comments Thorough guide to the stars beyond our solar system. Exhaustive treatment. Alphabetical by constellation. Pavo to Vulpecula in Vol. 3. 225 photos. Index in Vol. 3. Vol. 3 of three-vol. set....
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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 Publisher Comments A guidebook to the night sky, for the use with a small telescope....
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Firefly Planisphere
by Firefly Books Publisher Comments A practical and affordable 11 3/8" planisphere for locating night sky phenomena and stars in the Northern Hemisphere. The back describes star magnitudes and has Planetary Tables for 2007 to 2014 and comes with an instruction booklet....
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Sky Atlas 2000.0: Twenty-Six Star Charts, Covering Both Hemispheres, & Seven Detailed Charts of Selected Regions
by Wil Tirion Book News Annotation **** Cited in BCL 3. With a generous scale of 8.2 millimeters per degree, the deluxe version of this popular atlas has plenty of room for a life's worth of pencil markings. Twenty-six fold-out charts show 81,312 stars in black (magnitude 8.5 or...
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Sky & Telescope's Pocket Sky Atlas
by Roger W. Sinnott Publisher Comments Our celestial atlases are the standard by which all others have been judged for a half century. Now we?ve raised the bar with our new Pocket Sky Atlas! There has never been such a wonderfully detailed atlas so handy to take on trips and use at the...
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Theoretical Astrophysics Volume 2 Stars & ST
by T Padmanabhan Publisher Comments This authoritative text guides graduate students and researchers through the key physical processes governing stars and stellar systems....
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Sky Phenomena: A Guide to Naked-Eye Observation of the Stars
by Norman Davidson Publisher Comments Practical guide for star watching includes mythological and historical aspects of the subject....
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Amateur Astronomers Handbook 3RD Edition
by John Benso Sidgwick Publisher Comments Timeless, comprehensive coverage of telescopes, mirrors, lenses, mountings, telescope drives, micrometers, spectroscopes, more. .,."highly recommended for very serious nonprofessional astronomers." -- "A Guide to the Literature of Astronomy," 189...
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Ultracool Dwarfs: New Spectral Types L and T
by H. R. A. Jones Publisher Comments This book records our current understanding of the observational and theoretical properties of objects known as ultracool dwarfs. It covers the state of the art in this new field. It is split into theoretical, observational and spectral classification...
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Planets: A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press (Golden Guide)
by Golden Publisher Comments Enjoy and Learn!<BR>Expert Knowledge!<BR>Easy-to-Read! <BR>Space exploration in recent years has added a vast amount to our knowledge of the planets. This Golden Guide features: <BR>Exciting discoveries about the planets and other...
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