Find Out About Astronomy: a Fascinating Fact File and Learn-it-yourself Book, with 13 Projects and Over 240 Pictures

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Find out all about astronomy and stargazing: how to spot constellations, how the universe is expanding, and what the planets in our solar system are like. This hands-on book is perfect for home or school use, with practical projects that help you discover things for yourself: make a telescope, photograph the stars, and create a model of the night sky.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• The magnificent heavens (p. 4)
• Getting started (p. 6)
• Patterns in the sky (p. 8)
• Photographing the stars (p. 10)
• Northern constellations (p. 12)
• Southern constellations (p. 14)
• Make a night sky (p. 16)
• Seasonal stars (p. 18)
• Using a planisphere (p. 20)
• What stars are like (p. 22)
• Clusters and clouds (p. 24)
• Galaxies of stars (p. 26)
• The boundless universe (p. 28)
• Expanding the universe (p. 30)
• Our local star (p. 32)
• Sun and Earth (p. 34)
• Making sundials (p. 36)
• The Moon (p. 38)
• Moon movements (p. 40)
• Shadows in space (p. 42)
• The Sun's family (p. 44)
• Scaling the solar system (p. 46)
• Mercury, Venus and Earth (p. 48)
• All fall down (p. 50)
• Mars and mini-planets (p. 52)
• Jupiter the giant (p. 54)
• More giants (p. 56)
• Meteors and comets (p. 58)
• Astronomers at work (p. 60)
• Making a telescope (p. 62)
• Index (p. 64)