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Celestial Delights: The Best Astronomical Events Through 2020 (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series)
Author(s): Francis Reddy (Author)
- Publisher: Springer
- Publication Date: November 12, 2011
- Edition: 3rd
- Language: English
- Print length: 423 pages
- ISBN-10: 1461406099
- ISBN-13: 9781461406099
Book Description
Celestial Delights is the essential “TV Guide” for the sky as seen from the Northern Hemisphere. Through extensive graphics integrated with an eight-year-long calendar of sky events, it provides a look at “don’t miss” sky events, mostly for naked-eye and binocular observing. It is organized by ease of observation — lunar phases and the brighter planets come first, with solar eclipses, the aurora, and comets coming later.
This third edition also includes a hefty dose of sky lore, astronomical history, and clear overviews of current science. It provides a handy reference to upcoming naked-eye events, with information broken out in clear and simple diagrams and tables that are cross-referenced against a detailed almanac for each year covered. This book puts a variety of information all in one place, presents it in a friendly way that does not require prior in-depth astronomical knowledge, and provides the context and historical background for understanding events that astronomy software or web sites lack.
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About the Author
Francis Reddy is a senior science writer for Syneren Technologies Corp., and writes science-related press releases and other content for the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. He previously served as a senior editor at Astronomy magazine and has published several books for skygazers of all ages, including Halley’s Comet! (AstroMedia, 1985), The Children’s Atlas of the Universe (Rand McNally & Co., 1990), as well as two previous editions of Celestial Delights (Ten Speed Press, 1992 and 2002) with more than 20,000 copies in print.