Title The Night Sky Companion : A Yearly Guide to Sky-Watching 2009 Author(s) Plotner, Tammy Publication New York, NY, Springer New York, 2009. Description XIII, 418 p : online resource Abstract Note The Night Sky Companion is far more than just an observing guide. It is a year???s journey into the science and facts of astronomy and space travel, along with some of its history and the men and women who made it. If you???re a sky watcher equipped with any kind of astronomical telescope, binoculars, or even just your eyes, you are sure to find this book fascinating and useful. Taking a day-by-day look at the sky over the course of the whole year, Tammy Plotner has assembled a digest to appeal to all amateur and practical astronomers, as well as "armchair" astronomers. In this book you???ll find a wealth of information touching upon every aspect of your observations, including hwo to locate the object you???re looking for, whether it???s a meteor shower, a comet, a variable star, a crater on the Moon, or the remnants of a supernova. By the time the year is over, you???ll be an expert on the skies???and ready to tackle yet another year of exciting projects! ISBN,Price 9780387795096 Keyword(s) 1. ASTRONOMY 2. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques 3. Astronomy???Observations 4. EBOOK 5. EBOOK - SPRINGER 6. Observations, Astronomical 7. Popular Science in Astronomy Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I06874     On Shelf