Recommendation - Illustrated Guide to Astronomy Wonders (book)

[planet15]

Hi All

Just got this book delivered today, and had a quick scan. Seems a really good book for general Astronomy topics and also finding celestial objects.

cheers.

[Moonshane]

I agree it's an excellent book. often, as it provides images of many of the objects, it allows you to confirm that you are looking at the right star cluster. e.g. in Cygnus, the whole area is one big cluster and sometimes it's hard to know what you are looking at.

my only criticism is the binding. it's not that great after a while but it's cheap enough to buy another for inside if you damage it a bit.

[planet15]

I know what you mean. But as you rightly say, it was cheap.

Some of the O'Reilly books are my favourites in computing and electronics topics as well. This is my first Astronomical topic book from them, and again I am impressed.

[oldfruit]

+1 for this book. One of my fellow club members showed me his copy and i bought one myself. An excellent book for beginers or more experienced observers.

[Luke]

+1, excellent book.

[glowjet]

The next logical step forward from TL@O, highly recommended to those who want to expand their observational horizons

[Bart]

very good book

[JamesF]

Gets my vote, too.

James