The Night Sky Companion is a comprehensive guide to what can be explored in the heavens on a nightly basis. Designed to appeal to readers at all skill levels, it provides a digest for sky watchers interested in all types of astronomical information.

The Night Sky Companion offers a guide to what can be explored on a nightly basis. Designed to appeal to readers at all skill levels and involvement, it provides a digest for sky watchers interested in all-in-one-place information that includes history, current events, and of course interesting objects to be observed on any given day. It provides unaided eye observers an opportunity to view many objects or events as well as learn about their history, science and how just "looking up" can be rewarding. Binocular and small telescope users will find a wealth of objects to view using simple star hop instructions and finder charts. Large-aperture telescope users looking for a challenge are not ignored either: some of the finest deep-sky objects are detailed, with finder maps and photographs, most of them taken by talented amateurs.

Offers a guide to what can be explored on a nightly basis, combined with history, location maps, star hop instructions and soft science Written in a conversational tone that offers the reader motivation and encouragement no difficult complicated technical text Suitable for amateur astronomers, but also classroom use or observing clubs. Offers information designed to captivate observers at all levels and allow readers to progress towards specific studies Contains easy-to-understand sky charts and annotated lunar maps, as well as photography aimed towards a "realistic view." Explores the history and the science behind many of the studies, providing historical photographs and comprehensive diagrams

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Tammy Plotner lives in Ohio. She is a successful freelance writer, non-professional astronomy educator, advanced amateur astronomer, and lecturer. She is currently President and director of Outreach Education and Programs at Warren Rupp Observatory, and webmaster, team member and Astronomy Outreach coordinator for the Astronomical League.

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The The Night Sky Companion is far more than just an observing guide. It is a year's journey into the science and facts of astronomy and space travel, along with some of its history and the and the men and women who made it. If you're a sky watcher equipped with any kind of astronomical telescope, binoculars, or even just your eyes, you are sure to find this book absolutely fascinating.

Taking a day-by-day look at the sky over the course of the whole year, Tammy Plotner has assembled a digest to appeal to all astronomers and would-be astronomers. Turn these pages and you'll find observing recommendations including how to locate the object you're looking for along with a wealth of information touching on every aspect of your observation.

It doesn't matter whether it's a meteor shower, nebula, double star, variable star, lunar crater, or even the Sun: if it's an interesting feature of the 2008 2009 observing year, you'll find it here!

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