Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders: From Novice to Master Observer (DIY Science)

by Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson

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With the advent of inexpensive, high-power telescopes priced at under 250, amateur astronomy is now within the reach of anyone, and this is the ideal book to get you started. The Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders offers you a guide to the equipment you need, and shows you how and where to find hundreds of spectacular objects in the deep sky -- double and multiple stars as well as spectacular star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. You get a solid grounding in the fundamental concepts show more and terminology of astronomy, and specific advice about choosing, buying, usin show less

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Nonfiction, Science & Nature, General Nonfiction
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522Natural sciences & mathematicsAstronomyTechniques, procedures, apparatus, equipment, materials
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QB64 .T462ScienceAstronomyAstronomyGeneral
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