Touring the Universe through Binoculars: A Complete Astronomer's Guidebook

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Wiley, Oct 18, 1990 - Science - 304 pages
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This comprehensive work takes you on a personal tour of the universe using nothing more than a pair of binoculars. More comprehensive than any book currently available, it starts with Earth's nearest neighbor, the moon, and then goes on to explore each planet in the solar system, asteroids, meteors, comets and the sun. Following this, the reader is whisked away into deep space to explore celestial bodies including stars that are known and many sights less familiar. The final chapter includes a detailed atlas of deep-sky objects visible through binoculars. The appendices include guidance on how to buy, care for and maintain astronomical binoculars, tips and hints on using them, and detailed information on several home-made binocular mounts.

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Many works for amateur astronomers emphasize the use of telescopes, but this book shows the wealth of astronomical work that can be done with binoculars. Relegating technical details on binoculars to ... Read full review

Contents

Why Binoculars?
1
Stettar Happenings
69
A Survey of the Night
87
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Touring the Universe Through Binoculars: A Complete Astronomer's Guidebook
Philip S. Harrington
No preview available - 1990

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7x binoculars 7x glasses 8th-magnitude star Alpha amateurs appears asterism astronomers Beta binary star binoculars Binoculars reveal bright brighter brightest star catalogue celestial Collinder comet constellation crater dark nebula days Eclipsing Binary days Long Period deep sky objects detect diameter diffuse nebulae disk double star easily east Eclipsing Binary exit pupil fainter Figure galactic galaxies Gamma giant binoculars giant glasses globular cluster glow Irregular lens located Long Period Variable look lunar magni magnitude Mare Messier miles Milky Moon Moon's naked eye nearly nebulosity night Object R.A. Object Typ h m Object Typ R.A. observers open cluster optical pair Period Comments NGC Period Variable NGC Photograph planet planetary nebula points of light R.A. Dec seen shine SizelSepI Object Typ SizelSepI Period Comments solar southern spans spiral stellar suns telescope tude Typ h m Dec unaided eye variable stars

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Star-Hopping: Your Visa to Viewing the Universe
Robert A. Garfinkle
Limited preview - 1997

About the author (1990)

Philip S. Harrington is the author of eight previous books for the amateur astronomer, including Touring the Universe through Binoculars, Star Ware, and Star Watch. He is also a contributing editor for Astronomy magazine, where he has authored the magazine's monthly 'Binocular Universe' column and 'Phil Harrington's Challenge Objects', a quarterly online column on Astronomy.com. He is an Adjunct Professor at Dowling College and Suffolk County Community College, New York, where he teaches courses in stellar and planetary astronomy.

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TitleTouring the Universe through Binoculars: A Complete Astronomer's Guidebook
Volume 79 of Wiley Science Editions
AuthorPhilip S. Harrington
Editionillustrated
PublisherWiley, 1990
ISBN0471513377, 9780471513377
Length304 pages
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