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Secrets of Stargazing
Secrets of Stargazing


 
Secrets of Stargazing
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Here’s the perfect how-to book for recreational stargazers. It’s loaded with practical advice to help new observers spend more time exploring the night sky and less time fumbling with equipment or wondering how, when, and what to observe.

IN SECRETS OF STARGAZING YOU’LL DISCOVER HOW TO:
  • Quickly get started stargazing if you’re the lucky recipient of a new telescope
  • Plan your observing sessions and record your observations
  • Star gaze in the city — despite the lights
  • Quickly and easily set up your telescope
  • Use star charts and discover star-hopping
  • Decipher weather reports and understand sky transparency and seeing conditions
  • Find others in your area who share your love of the night sky.

Whether or not you own a telescope,Secrets of Stargazing is loaded with tips and tricks that are guaranteed to make you a better observer.

It’s a volume that no novice stargazer should be without. &&L/P&&R&&LBR&&R

Becky Ramotowski writes a weekly astronomy column for the San Antonio Express-News and has written for Night Sky magazine. She’s also into astroimaging with film and digital cameras and has had photos published in Sky & Telescope and Night Sky magazines. She does most of her skywatching from her home in New Mexico (where she lives with five telescopes and her husband Shane) but makes an annual pilgrimage to the dark skies of the Texas Star Party.

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