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Elliptical Sky Walk

What star is that? Where is the Southern Cross? Who was Orion? Answering these questions and galore more, this book will become an necessary traveling associate for novice astronomers heading abroad. Its distinguishable simplified maps make it easy to find the constellations in the southern hemisphere skies, and the stars within them. Clear instructions guide the user on how to gauge sizes and distances, and move effortlessly amid constellations. This new edition has been altered with further and added mythology information, and a list of the planet positions up to 2016. Of value to all ages, this book introduces the patterns of the starry skies in a unforgettable way. No instrumentation is necessitated to use this practical guide: apart from normal sight and clear skies. Beautifully illustrated, this is an idealisti introduction to unfamiliar stars that will have astronomers of all levels gazing at the skies with ease.

Review”This accessible book provides you with simple, straightforward maps of the southern sky constellations and the mythology of galore of the more remarkable ones. It’s a will have to if you’re planning a trip to go looking at Down Under.” –BBC Sky at Night

About the AuthorMilton Heifetz is an novice astronomer, professor of neurosurgery, and inventor of ‘The Precession of the Equinoxes’ planisphere, now at the Harvard University Museum of Historical Scientific Instruments. It is now used to determine positions of the stars in ancient history and years in the future.

Wil Tirion is a Free Lance Uranographer and Graphic Designer. He is co-author of The Monthly Sky Guide, now in it is seventh edition (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Learning the Southern Sky
By Julio Colombo
After settling to go into the Observational Astronomy hobby, I have been denying experts’ advise for months. Although being closely a rookie, “start with a pair of binoculars”, “plan your session ahead” and so on seemed trivial to me. This book helps the reader to solve which is in all probability the very primary lesson to start out with: “learn the sky”. In addition to that, it is devoted to the Southern Hemisphere, trascendental for those who live “below” the equator. “A walk through the Southern Sky” without apparent effort and friendly explains how to reach minor constellations starting at the major ones. From Orion and Canis Major, precise highways are traced to reach Canis Minor, Cancer, Lepus and so on. From Crux and Centauri, to Vela and so on. I had started with a friend’s computerized scope, and always thought that “starhopping” would be imposible for me underneath light-polluted skies. Probably one of the major goals of the writers is having proved me wrong. Again, if I could, any person can!

12 of 12 persons found the following review helpful.
Take this one with you
By A. G. Sanchez
I take a trip to the Southern Hemisphere on occasion and have been looking for a good compact guide to fetch along with me. I find the simplified star charts in truth utile to get myself quickly oriented. I don’t need a full blown super elaborate star atlas with all kinds of unnecessary detail and clutter that I’m unable to use, and this one fits the bill in that respect.

It also covers basic mythology of the Southern Skies and makes an magnificent associate to it’s sister work on the Northern Skies.

If your more mesmerized in deep sky objects of the Southern skies you’d be better off looking elsewhere as this book only lightly discusses DSO’s.

1 of 1 persons found the following review helpful.
Fantastic for Learning Naked Eye Astronomy
By Jon J A
This is a outstanding book for naked eye astronomy. You will be capable to learn where the constellations are located in the night sky as well as a heap of major stars. It is easy to follow and there is something very pretty regarding sky lore. Humans have always looked at the stars for guidance. Learning naked eye astronomy is very good for you and gives you a sense of connection with the cosmos and Earth’s kinship with it.

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