Exploring the Starry Sky

by Robert Burnham, Wil Tirion

The perfect guide for anyone interested in stargazing for the first time, Exploring the Starry Sky features large, colorful, user-friendly star maps and includes simple directions for finding all of the major stars and constellations visible from the northern hemisphere. Two star charts display the major sights to be seen from suburban or rural locations, for each season, and more detailed maps spotlight special regions of interest.

Robert Burnham has been an amateur astronomer since the mid-1950s. He has been a senior editory of Astronomy magazine and is the author of many books and CD-ROMS, including Comet Hale-Bopp: Find and Enjoy the Great Comet (Cambridge, 1997) Comet Explorer, and Great Comets (Cambridge, 2000).

24 pages, Spiral-bound

First published December 4, 2003

About the author

Robert Burnham is an American science writer, who specialises in the fields of astronomy and astronautics. His career has included a position as editor of "Astronomy" magazine. Currently, he is the public information officer at the Mars Space Flight Facility of Arizona State University.

(Not to be confused with the author of "Burnham's Celestial Handbook", who was Robert Burnham Jr.)