The Night Sky Month by Month

by D.K. Publishing

Learn how to observe and navigate the night sky with this guide to stargazing for beginners!

The dazzling reference book shines bright with crystal-clear charts of the planets, stars and constellations in both the northern and southern hemispheres for each month of the year! It’s perfect for anyone interested in stargazing and astronomy.

This unique astronomy book explains and demystifies the changing night sky. It

   • Illustrated overviews that introduce each month with a guide to the main attractions, like bright stars, prominent constellations and meteor showers.
   • An introduction explains what the universe is, our place within it, how it appears to us in the night sky and how our view of it changes with time and place.
   • Each illustrated overview features a planet locator, showing the position of the planets during the month introduced.
   • Charts that show the positions of all stars visible to the naked eye in even the darkest skies.

Discover a complete year-round atlas of the night sky! Filled with easy-to-use star charts showing the constellations, alongside specially commissioned artworks and photography, this space book has everything the budding astronomer needs to understand the night sky. You’ll learn how to recognize different kinds of objects and see how they move through the sky over the course of the night and the year.

Whether you’re new to astronomy or a seasoned stargazer, The Night Sky Month by Month enables everyone to be awed by stargazing. It covers skywatching without any equipment at all, as well as with the use of binoculars and telescopes. Plus, the newly updated edition features an astronomy calendar detailing the annual and one-off celestial events for the decade ahead, ensuring you’ll never miss a visible planet or solar eclipse again. 

It’s the perfect gift for amateur astronomers.

Genres: Astronomy, Science, Reference, Nonfiction

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Bettie · Rating 5 out of 5]

My particular version has a different isbn: 978-1-4053-6174-3

As expected, this is cram-packed with illustrations and some stunning photography, pretty much a must for any sky-watcher.

[Caroline]

mmm star charts

[Nan Suphaphorn · Rating 5 out of 5]

becoming such a stargazer, it isn't that difficult for you to try. I really love this one, it is more than just what I was expected.

[Teri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best guide I've found for identifying constellations.

[MK · Rating 3 out of 5]

This guidebook describes the night sky visible to the naked eye in month-by-month detail from January to December. It is very detailed with images.

A must-see for those who love astronomy and stargazing.

[Laurent · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this book when I was 10 mostly because I liked to pictures inside and I understood 0 of the hard wording used in the book. Now 5 years later Its easy for me to understand and quite interesting and I am actually quite happy I got it back then. Well, now I know its a book targeted to teenagers due to the hard wording used in the book