Celestial Delights: The Best Astronomical Events through 2010 by Francis Reddy, Greg Walz-Chojnacki

From the Publisher

This decade, the heavens will treat us to an exciting parade of meteor showers, planetary transits, lunar eclipses, and spectacular displays of northern lights. Learn to identify these wonders of the cosmos with Celestial Delights -- clear country skies and expensive telescopes not required. Both an introduction to astronomy and a calendar of upcoming celestial events, this layperson's guide forecasts and explains numerous naked-eye phenomena in lucid writing and easy-to-grasp diagrams. Specially written for urban and suburban skywatchers, Celestial Delights deepens our appreciation of what we see when we look up into the night sky, and inspires us to do so more often.

Scientific American

These expert authors assume of you the least of preparations, not even an abundance of free time. . . . In a practical and simple vein, the text, drawings, and summaries offer in one deft book a celestial timetable for the rest of the decade. . . . If this is your year to skywatch, this is your book.

Sky & Telescope

Celestial Delights makes an almost complete short course in descriptive popular astronomy. . . . The feature that makes this book stand out is a text crammed with easy-to-use diagrams -- probably the best we've seen. The style is so breezy we wish we'd written it ourselves. Indeed, after reading this book, if you don't understand how the heavens work and how to find objects in the ever-changing night sky, you never will. Why didn't someone think of writing one of these before?

What People Are Saying

Victor, Robert
A beautifully described and well-illustrated selection of 'don't-miss' celestial happenings over the rest of the decade. This book will help many casual stargazers become attuned to the rhythms of the sky.
— creator and writer, Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar

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