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Author Consolmagno, Guy, 1952- author.

Title Turn left at Orion : hundreds of night sky objects to see in a home telescope-- and how to find them / Guy Consolmagno (Vatican Observatory, Vatican City State, and Tucson, Arizona), Dan M. Davis (Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York).

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

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 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  523 CON    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  523 CON    Check Shelf
Edition Fifth edition.
Description 255 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents How do you get to Albireo? -- How to use this book -- Using your telescope -- Know your telescope -- Basic telescope math -- The moon -- The sun -- Observing planets -- The giant planets : Jupiter & Saturn -- Moons and rings -- The fast moving planets : Venus and Mercury -- Mars -- The far, and the faint : Uranus, Neptune, etc -- Seasonal skies : January-March -- About diffuse nebulae -- About open clusters -- Seasonal skies : April-June -- About planetary nebulae -- About galaxies -- About globular clusters -- Seasonal skies : July-September -- Seasonal skies : October-December -- Northern skies -- Southern skies -- About this fifth edition -- Where do you go from here? -- Accessories -- The truth about cats and Dobs -- Tables.
Summary A new edition of this best-selling guidebook to the night sky, showing amateur astronomers how to observe a host of celestial wonders. --Publisher
Subject Astronomy -- Amateurs' manuals.
Astronomy. (OCoLC)fst00819673
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals. (OCoLC)fst01423877
Added Author Davis, Dan M. (Dan Michael), 1956- author.
ISBN 9781108457569 (alk. paper)
1108457568 (alk. paper)
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