Discover the Moon
$49.99 (G)
- Authors:
- Jean Lacroux
- Christian Legrand
- Translator: Christopher Sutcliffe
- Date Published: March 2004
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521535557
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The Moon is accessible to everyone. Because it is easy to observe everywhere, even in big cities, it is a prime target for aspiring astronomers and for those who are merely curious about the night sky. This easy-to-use guide to discovering lunar sites takes the reader through fourteen observing sessions from New Moon to Full Moon. For each evening, the book shows which craters, mountains and other features can be seen, and how to find them. Each photograph shows what the observer actually sees through a telescope, solving the usual difficulties of orientation confronting beginners. Images are shown as they appear through both refracting and reflecting telescopes. Maps printed on the book's front and back flaps show the whole Moon with sites as seen through a refractor, through a Newtonian reflector, or, when turned upside-down, through binoculars. Jean Lacroux has been a columnist for the French astronomy magazine Ciel et Espace for 25 years. He has published four successful amateur astronomy books in French. Christian Legrand is an engineer and amateur astronomer, who has been a passionate lunar observer since the Apollo missions.
Read more- An ideal introduction to lunar observing
- Includes more than 300 lunar sites to observe through your telescope
- Day-by-day observing programme, from New Moon to Full Moon
Reviews & endorsements
"A colorful and good-looking introduction to lunar observing." Sky & Telescope
See more reviews"This book is highly observable friendly. All images have south up and each is printed twice on as a mirror image to match the view through a telescope with a star diagonal. Terrific idea!" ASTRONOMY
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- Date Published: March 2004
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521535557
- length: 144 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 177 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.438kg
- contains: 5 b/w illus. 126 colour illus. 3 tables
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
How to use this book
Earth's Moon
Observation equipment and sites
Guide to the Moon
From Full Moon to New Moon
References
Glossary
Latin and English Names.
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