
A FIELD GUIDE TO THE STARS AND PLANETS
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Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1964, reprint. ISBN 0-395-19422-9. Soft cover, 397 pages including Appendices and Index. Very good; light edge and cover wear, light creasing on spine; binding sound; blank sticker on rear wrap. Interior clean and unmarked; black & white illustrations and photos. Sky maps and other illustrations by Ching Sung Yu. ‘This is an unabridged paperback edition of the clearest, most complete pocket guide to the night sky ever published. The authoritative text by Donald H. Menzel, complete with 48 Sky Maps, many photographs, astronomical tables, and constellation drawings (based largely on the unique designs originated by H. A. Rey), provides the reader with the basic information needed for sky watching with the naked eye, binocular, or telescope. … other sections of the guide cover the solar system, the planets, comets, meteors, and asteroids. Supplementing the 48 Sky Maps that identify brighter stars, a comprehensive atlas of the sky includes 54 charts, each of which appears twice (once as seen in the telescope and again on the facing page with the names of the stars, nebulae, clusters, and other objects superimposed), and enables the observer to identify the fainter stars.’ (from rear wrap)