Product Description

The stars of the night sky in three maps: the two hemispheres and the equatorial region. Stars visible with the naked eye are shown, with fainter bodies marked for observers with binoculars or small telescopes. The text explains how to locate stars all through the year, from any latitude.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #395483 in Books
• Published on: 1990-09-30
• Formats: Folded Map, Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

A great product but hard to use initially.
I am a novice, amateur astronomer and when I saw this title I thought, "This should help to get me into my hobby". I wasn't disappointed, this chart is a really good way to "see" the stars. The size of this map and its clear and helpful layout makes finding relevant information easy. Having said this, reading the charts is a little difficult at first and the guide to using the chart is a little brief and doesn't help much.

This chart displays all of the information that a backyard astronomer would need. All of the stars that are visible to the naked eye or a pair of binoculars are shown. This product is good as it does not display all of the fainter stars that a telescope would reveal and this avoids too much irrelevant detail.

Despite the initial difficulties to use this chart is a great asset for any novice star-gazer. It is particularly useful as it complements other Philip's Astronomy titles such as their moonmap and their planisphere.

I am eagerly awaiting more cloud free nights to explore the sky with my starchart and for any other people who are new to this fascinating hobby I would recomend this title.