Customer Rating:  
Summary: Good book for beginner
Comment: Good book for a beginner with a small telescope or binoculars. gives detailed explanations about celestial objects and how to easily find them. each section corresponds to a certain season and what can be found in that time of year. where to find the planets and what to look for on the planets. contains a map of the moon. this book will definitely strike an interest in astronomy and leave you thirsting for more. there is a lot of info in the book but i wish there was more.
some people might just want to just get a star chart right away but star charts don't tell you what you can or cannot see with your telescope or what are good targets, and may leave a beginner disappointed. i think this book is a great book if you have very little, or NO experience in star gazing, especially if you have a telescope in the attic or some decent binoculars.
Customer Rating:
Summary: VERY GOOD PURCHASE
Comment: Dear sirs,
I live in Brazil, and I was affraid to get products in other country. But I was confident with Amazon.com site content and security. Then I decided to make my first "out-of-the-box" purchase, and I'm astonished with the extremely professional approach of Amazon.com .
My product was delivered 15 days earlier than planned, and in good conditions, including the package.
The book content is very comprehensible, mainly for amateurs, as I am. I'm very satisfied to get this book, and I reccomend it and Amazon.com also.
Congratulations,
Valter R.Francisco
Santo Andre, S.Paulo, Brazil
Customer Rating:
Summary: THE book to start with
Comment: For the beginning stargazer, without some sort of guide (either a knowledgable person or a great book), a new telescope is all but useless. Even computerized "go-to" telescopes are surprisingly disappointing; sure, they'll take you straight to the sights, but they won't tell you what magnification to use, or what you're looking for, or whether the thing you're looking for might be too dim for you to see at all, so that most of the time you'll find yourself staring at a bunch of stars and wondering what the heck you're supposed to be looking at...and whether the computer's tracking system is a little off (which it will be, sometmies). So don't buy or give someone a new telescope without a good book with to go with it. And although no book does all things for all people, if you're only going to get one book to start, this is absolutely the one to buy. My first telescope was computerized, and worked well...but after buying this book, I was finally able to track down the things I was really interested in. In the years since then, I've thrown the computerized scope away in favor of a big, manually-guided dobsonian. And although I've never missed the computer, I still use this book constantly.
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Summary: Great roadmap for finding nighttime sky objects
Comment: This is an excellent book for amateur astronomers who would like direction on exactly where and how to find 100 of the most interesting nighttime sky objects -- nebula, planets, galaxies, double-doubles, star clusters, etc. Be advised that this is not a coffee table book full of breathtaking color photos straight from Hubble or a NASA space probe. This is a book on how to star hop your way from one object to the next. The book is full of drawings that depict how to do this, and the accompanying text is clear and accurate. This book has made finding many of these objects much easier for me. It's well worth the money and I highly recommend it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Disappointed
Comment: Not a bad book exactly.
But I found it to be a waste of money.
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