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A field guide to the stars and planets / Jay M. Pasachoff ; with monthly star maps and atlas charts by Wil Tirion.
TITLE:
A field guide to the stars and planets / Jay M. Pasachoff ; with monthly star maps and atlas charts by Wil Tirion.
Alternate Title:
Stars and planets
Publication Date:
2000
Publication Information:
Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin,
Edition:
4th ed.
Physical Description:
578 p. : ill.
Summary:
Twenty-four color Monthly Sky Maps show exactly what you’ll see when facing north or south in the night sky. Fifty-two color Atlas Charts cover the entire sky, including close-ups of areas of special interest, such as the Pleiades and the Orion Nebula. Two dozen pages cover the August 21, 2017, total solar eclipse whose path crossed the continental United States, and other aspects of recent and future solar eclipses.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780395934319