Celestial Delights: The Best Astronomical Events Through the Year 2001

by Francis Reddy, Greg Walz-Chojnacki

Celestial Delights The Best Astronomical Events through 2010 by Francis Reddy and Greg Walz-Chojnacki In the coming decade, North Americans will be treated to an exciting parade of meteor showers, planetary transits, lunar eclipses, and strong displays of northern lights. Learn to identify what s happening in the night sky with CELESTIAL DELIGHTS, both an introduction to astronomy and a calendar of upcoming celestial events written for urban and suburban sky-gazers country skies and expensive telescopes not required. This revised edition predicts and explains numerous naked-eye events with the same lucid writing and easy-to-grasp diagrams that earned the first edition rave reviews. An astronomy guide for the layperson, CELESTIAL DELIGHTS deepens our appreciation of what we see when we gaze at the stars, and inspires us to do so more often.

135 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1992

Reviews

[David Link · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great introduction into backyard astronomy, learn the names of the bright stars and lean about fascinating astronomical events. Very well written. I read this when the events listed were still in the present. I wish I knew about the second and third versions of the book, with events through 2010 and 2020. I hope Reddy writes an updated one with events thru 2030.