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2024 Night Sky Almanac: A Month-by-Month Guide to North America's Skies from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada

228104327

Brand: Firefly Books

2024 Night Sky Almanac: A Month-by-Month Guide to North America's Skies from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada

228104327

This month-by-month guide will take you through the highlights of the night sky. Want to know when Juipiter is at opposition (brightest)? Looking to plan around the next lunar eclipse? This is your guide.
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Product Description

2024 Night Sky Almanac is the ideal resource for both novice and experienced sky watchers in the United States and Canada, with all the advice, information and data that enthusiasts need to understand and enjoy the wonders of the night sky.

This in-depth guide first introduces readers to the objects in the sky -- from stars, to comets, to globular clusters -- and 88 pages takes them through the cosmic events to look out for each month in 2024, with sky maps, moon phase charts and info about the planets.

The book also features:

  • Methods for using your hands to measure angles in the sky
  • Information about binoculars and telescopes
  • A glossary of terms and a list of helpful resources
  • The April 2024 full solar eclipse, seen over a broad swath of the US. The "path of totality" starts in Texas and ends in the Northeast. It will be a huge, widely anticipated event

This 2024 edition of Night Sky Almanac features eight additional pages of content, including more information about our visible universe, photos of different telescope types and a new section about asteroids.

The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) was founded ad hoc in 1868 and incorporated in 1890 with a dual membership of professionals and amateurs.

Author Bio

Nicole Mortillaro is an avid amateur astronomer, author, editor, Senior Science Reporter for CBC News and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. She is the author of Saturn, and lives in Toronto, Canada.

Specifications

Edition Notes: Fourth Edition
Author Statement: Nicole Mortillaro
Audience: Trade
Specs: photographs, sky maps, diagrams, tables, glossary, resources
Pages: 128
Trim Size: 5 7/8" X 8 1/4" X 5/16"
Language code 1: eng
Publication Date: 20230815
Copyright Year: 2023

Customer Reviews

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K.B.
Title of the book is perfect. No change needed.

As a strictly visual observer I much prefer this publication to the RASC Observers Hand Book. Easier reading with the month by month breakdown of celestial events and highlights makes it much easier to decide what to observe on any given night. Also appreciate all of the basic information at the beginning of the book as an excellent reference.

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B.R.
Very happy

Hands down of the best experience I’ve had shopping online for Astro equipment hands down. Will definitely shop with All-Star again. Thanks again

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J.H.

Was expecting a larger 8 1/2 12 inch book, not the smaller sized one received.

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C.
Very accessible

This almanac is very useful for beginning and intermediate observers of the night sky, allowing them to keep track of celestial events.

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