The Backyard Astronomer's Guide
The modern classic, completely updated. The newest edition of The Backyard Astronomer's Guide includes the latest data and answers the questions most often asked by home astronomers, from beginners to experienced stargazers. Terence Dickinson and Alan Dyer provide expert guidance on the right types of telescopes and other equipment; photographing the stars through a telescope; and star charts, software and other references. They cover daytime and twilight observing, planetary and deep-sky observing, and much more. With over 500 color photographs and illustrations, The Backyard Astronomer's Guide is one of the most valuable, beautiful and user-friendly astronomy books ever produced. New and updated for this edition: - A 20-page full-color Atlas of the Milky Way provides location and context for hundreds of celestial objects mentioned throughout the book.
- A chapter on Astrophotography with Digital Cameras specifies what equipment works best and how to use it to collect a color gallery of celestial portraits.
- Telescopes for Recreational Astronomy features assessments of a wide range of new telescopes, from models for beginners to those for veteran astronomy enthusiasts, with special emphasis on computerized telescopes and how they work.
- Accessory Catalog spotlights the best of the accessories and flags the frivolous and irrelevant.
- Three practical appendices: Polar Aligning Your Telescope; Optics Cleaning and Collimation; Testing Your Telescope Optics.
Any serious home astronomer must have this superb guide as an ongoing reference. (20030104)
The Backyard Astronomer's Guide Accessories
 NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe
Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope--and How to Find Them
Sky & Telescope's Pocket Sky Atlas
Star Ware: The Amateur Astronomer's Guide to Choosing, Buying, and Using Telescopes and Accessories
The Night Sky 30°-40° (Large; North Latitude)
Astronomy Hacks: Tips and Tools for Observing the Night Sky
Binocular Highlights: 99 Celestial Sights for Binocular Users (Sky & Telescope Stargazing)
Star Watch: The Amateur Astronomer's Guide to Finding, Observing, and Learning About over 125 Celestial Objects
The Night Sky 40°-50° (Large)
Astronomy For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))
The Backyard Astronomer's Guide Reviews
I am a tech-savvy (engineer type) new astronomy amateur. It is almost a reference book that covers many aspects of amateur astronomy.with real "how to" information. This book is an excellent source of information.
This is the most complete book for amatuer astronomers. Many interesting facts and bits of information are found nowhere else besides the complete knowledge on the subject and its equipment. I have read many good books on the subject and have a decent library but The Backyard Astronomer takes first place.
Well, almost everything.this shows a beginner everything he needs to know about astronomy, from equipment to nebulae to satellites, however, it doesn't show you how to find anything in the sky. it provides a great, up to date, overview of everything that's out there. in fact i would say it is necessary. All good astronomers know their equipment and a lot of times create their own equipment.
a few pages describing what targets to search for and how to find them would be very useful to a beginner. i just wanted to get a telescope and look in it and nothing else, but i soon realized that you must know your equipment. having a good reference about equipment isn't "necessary", having the internet and all, but it is VERY convenient.
the book has some beautiful charts of the milky way in the back but no indication of how to use them or what are the good targets. this along with the beautiful pictures,the fun info about planets and the sky and the history of astronomy, this would be a great purchase. "left turn at Orion" would be a good choice for something like that.
this is where this book excels. It does a fantastic job informing you about everything you need to know about telescopes which i think is the hardest part to getting into star gazing.
I particularly like their direct approach to many topics - "While many do it this way, we don't. The book is very current in terms of technologies, and they've included the latest and greatest technoliges and what to do with them. The authors are incredibly knowledgable and share their experience in a very understandable manner. This book is absolutely the best written and most information guide I have in my library. Here's what we do." This book is an absolute requirement in every astronomer's library.
This is the book to buy. Professional.
This is THE best book on the subject. Is this simple enough.
PERIOD. Amateur.
STOP. To the point: Buy no other.
Just starting. Intermediate.
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