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Free Guide to Naked-Eye Astronomy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the be-careful-or-you'll-put-your-naked-eye-out dept.

Tammy Plotner, president of Warren Rupp Observatory, writes "Are you looking for all the best of what's up in the night sky for the year 2007? Then be my guest and download my free e.book — '365 Days of SkyWatching'! (Brought to you courtesy of The Universe Today.) Each day is specifically geared to give you the best of what can be seen with the unaided eye, binoculars, and small telescopes and even has challenge objects for seasoned observers. It's beautifully illustrated and contains many special features, such as anotated lunar maps. Please feel free to pass it along to anyone in the astronomy community and enjoy!" For anyone who'll be in that neck of the woods (central Ohio) next October, Warren Rupp's Hidden Hollow event looks really fun.

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  1. SECRET TRICK TO SKYWATCHING! by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even though the title says 365 days of sky watching, I feel I must let you in on a secret:

    Wait until night time to do your sky watching, it will be better than staring at a blue screen ;)

    Please note also, the police will not believe your story about downloading a book from the internet which told you to stand naked in the neighbours garden at 3am with binoculars and a camera (don't ask how I know this).

    --
    liqbase :: faster than paper
  2. You'll need these by chanrobi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Although each day is fairly descriptive and tells you about a new object, it doesn't tell you where to find it. Here's what the book recommended:

    www.astrosurf.com/astropc/cartes
    www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky

    The first one is a downloadable program, the second is web based. For the open source crowd i'd recommend Stellarium.

    http://www.stellarium.org/

    Celestia is also interesting in that it allows you to travel off the surface the earth. More akin to Starry Night pro. Not as useful to accompany the guide but fun to play around with. Also open source.

    http://www.shatters.net/celestia/download.html

    Have Fun!

  3. Re:Wow. Slashdotted WordPress by cpm · · Score: 5, Informative

    Web page:
    http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/d836baa0e91f81cdd 5e6e15dbc88fa61/index.html

    PDF [Size: 23.3Mb]:
    http://www.mirrordot.org/media/6eeaa081830de8a6476 656a76d6ae669/365days2007.pdf