Book

Schilling, Govert, author.

The astronomy handbook : the ultimate guide to observing and understanding stars, planets, galaxies, and the universe / Govert Schilling.

First U.S. edition.

New York, NY : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2024.

©2024.

ix, 246 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Examines "the night sky, the cosmos, and the universe, all in one easy-to-use and understand handbook"-- Provided by publisher.

Astronomy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Astronomy -- Observers' manuals.

Handbooks and manuals.

Handboek sterrenkunde. English

"First published as Handboek Sterrenkunde by Fontaine Uitgevers, The Netherlands"

Includes index.

"Written by award-winning astronomy writer Govert Schililng, author of Constellations (BDL, 2018) and Deep Space (BDL, 2014), The Astronomy Handbook is the indispensible, go-to guide to everything you ever wanted or needed to know about the night sky, the cosmos, and the universe all in one easy-to-use and understand handbook"-- Provided by publisher.

Astronomy as a science -- The history of astronomy -- Telescopes -- Modern astronomy -- The night sky -- The celestial sphere -- Constellations -- The zodiac -- Amateur astronomy -- Earth, moon, and sun -- Motions and eclipses -- The moon -- The sun -- The solar system -- The inner parts of the solar system -- The outer parts of the solar system -- Meteors, asteroids, and comets -- The Milky Way galaxy -- Stars -- Star clusters and nebulae -- The Milky Way -- The Universe -- Galaxies -- The evolution of the universe -- Life in the universe.

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