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Summary: Bigger and Better than ever
Review: The new 4th edition of this field guide has been expanded by 100 pages, and the star maps are now in color. It has been updated, with new and better photos. A little more pricey than the previous edition, but the added and enhanced content makes it a tremendous value.A terrific introduction to astronomy that deserves a place in every star-gazer's library.
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Summary: Very Detailed Book, Too Detailed for a Beginner
Review: This is a good book. It is full of content and has extremely detailed maps. The photographs are excellent. I am new to astronomy, the book and maps are a little to detailed for a beginner. If you are a beginner, there are better books. It is a book that I can grow into.
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Summary: Very Detailed Book, Too Detailed for a Beginner
Review: This is a good book. It is full of content and has extremely detailed maps. The photographs are excellent. I am new to astronomy, the book and maps are a little to detailed for a beginner. If you are a beginner, there are better books. It is a book that I can grow into.
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Summary: Great reference but poor for use in the field
Review: This review is for the softcover version. I feel almost bad to give this great guide 3 stars. The book contains a lot of very good information - more so than many books several times larger. As such, it's an excellent reference for beginner and more advanced user alike. However, the book fails miserably for field use, which, ironically, it is supposed to be designed for. The cover frays and acquires "dog-ears" in a relatively short time of field use. In contrast, the Audubon field guides use a much more resilient plastic softcover. The pages smude easily from finger oils - remember, this is a guide you should be able to use for 8 years or so (until the next edition) so these are unacceptable shortcomings IMHO. By far the biggest gripe I have with this book, however, is the the choice of red to identify galaxies, star clusters etc in the atlas charts. These marks completely disappear under red light(!!!), making the charts useless for finding deep sky objects in the field. Finally, how are you supposed to operate equipment and keep the book open? Because it lacks spiral binding, the only way to use it hands-off is to put a weight on the page you're referencing. If you're looking for a great reference to use at home, this guide is hard to beat - in fact, I highly recommend it. However, look elsewhere for more useful star charts with deep sky objects to use in the field.
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Summary: Supreme writing and wonderful pictures
Review: This was a great astronomy book that i used countless times with my telescope. without this book i would not be able to know where almost half the stars in the sky are. Wonderful writing that is easy for a amaueter astronomer like myself and many others. The pictures are the best part. The mind bending images of stars nebulaes and solar eclipses are enough. Wonderful book!!!
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Summary: Looked at many astronomy books. This is my favorite
Review: Very easy to understand, unlike almost all the others. Great charts for finding stars. Thanks to this book I now understand how to find a star from a star chart. Great pictures, and again I cannot state how clearly they explain things.
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Summary: Looked at many astronomy books. This is my favorite
Review: Very easy to understand, unlike almost all the others. Great charts for finding stars. Thanks to this book I now understand how to find a star from a star chart. Great pictures, and again I cannot state how clearly they explain things.
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Summary: Good Pictures and charts i loved it!
Review: Well I checked it out at the library. It was great i loved the wording and pictures. I liked how it explains each constellation about the French days of the finders of them.
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