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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

From a complete list of the best deep-sky objects for binoculars to starhopping and splitting stars with a small telescope, amateur astronomers of all experience levels will find challenging activities for their hobby described step by step in an easy style. Readers will also learn how to convert a small, department store telescope into a useful instrument for the Sun, Moon, and double stars; how to keep astronomical notes, from a pen-and-pencil journal to an elaborate electronic notebook; how to follow the astronomical observations of Lewis and Clark, and more.

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Introduction.

-1. Binocular Astronomy.

-2. Your First Telescope: The 60mm Refractor.

-3. Starhopping.

-4. Moongazing.

-5. The Astro Log: Recording the Sky.

-6. Photography Under the Open Sky.

-7. Rainy Night Astronomy.

-8. What's Next.

-Appendix: Suppliers and Publications.

-Index.

OUR REVIEW

As is usual in this American publishing house, Kalmbach offers us a product aimed at amateur astronomers beginning in this science once again, showing them the first steps to enter this field easily and to scientifically profit from this in a highly satisfactory way.

The authors have made a good effort to build a merely didactic work, full of practical advice, descriptive photographs, etc. Each chapter is structured as an observation project. The attentive reading of all the points will suffice to give us a good idea about the sky has to offer. With an agile, pleasant language, Cortner and Hendrickson are no doubt a valuable help for every reader who starts in this path and who wishes to advance fast enough in this fascinating field of astronomic observation.