Publisher's Synopsis
Taking the reader on a journey aroung the sky at night, this book puts emphasis on modern astronomy and explains how observations are made and interpreted. The reader is encouraged to become involved, carrying practical observations of objects and phenomena, using the naked eye, binoculars or a moderate-sized telescope.;It includes chapters on astronomical instruments and techniques, the celestrial sphere, distances in space and size of objects, the moon, formation of the solar system, current state of the solar system, nebulae and star clusters, the life of a star from birth to death, and galaxies and associated objects.
