2025 night sky almanac : a month-by-month guide to North America's skies from The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
2024
Book
2025 Night Sky Almanac is a great resource for both novice and experienced sky watchers in the United States and Canada, with all the advice, information and data you need to understand and enjoy the wonders of the night sky throughout 2025. Produced in collaboration with The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, this in-depth handbook first introduces you to the objects in the sky -- from stars, to comets, to globular clusters -- and then takes you through the cosmic events to look out for each month. Features include: over 60 stunning photos and illustrations taken by top astrophotographers; detailed information on binoculars and telescopes for ideal sky-watching; information on 2025's meteor showers and eclipses; monthly lists, moon phase calendars and sky charts so you won't miss a thing; and much more!
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780228104704
- 022810470X
Description: 128 pages : color illustrations, charts ; 21 cm
Other Title:
- Twenty twenty-five night sky almanac.
- Two thousand twenty-five night sky almanac.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 128).
Contents:
- Handy night sky measures
- The night sky: a cosmic time machine
- Binoculars and telescopes
- Stars
- Constellations
- Comets, asteroids and meteors
- The moon
- The sun
- Eclipses
- The northern lights
- The planets
- Deep-sky objects
- The sky month-by-month
- The Messier catalog.
LCCN: 2024935774
Control Number: 3343869
Publisher: Buffalo, New York : Firefly Books, 2024.Subjects:
- Astronomy -- Canada -- Amateurs' manuals.
- Astronomy -- Canada -- Observers' manuals.
- Astronomy -- Popular works.
- Astronomy -- United States -- Amateurs' manuals.
- Astronomy -- United States -- Observers' manuals.
Genre: Handbooks and manuals.
Other Authors: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, issuing body.