Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope - and How to Find Them
by Guy Consolmagno
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 523
EAN: 9780521781909
ISBN: 0521781906
Label: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2000-11-01
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Studio: Cambridge University Press
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Summary: Must have!
Comment: I bought a telescope, and after a couple of weeks, it went into a cupboard to gather dust. For the uninitiated, there's an awfull lot of dull stuff in the sky.
Then I was given this for my birthday. Suddenly, it turns out there are a profusion of binary stars that you can see even in a misty urban sky like mine. There are open clusters, globular clusters, nebulae and galaxies, and with the help of this book, you can find lots of them, even with a small telescope (and mine was 3 inches).
The book is precise, easy to understand, and gives ratings out of five for each item, so you can select the ones that seem most spectacular. It also gives more detailed stuff for those with bigger and better telescopes. From being a hidden relic, it's transformed my telescope into something I use all the time, and now I want a better one.
Quite simply, it's a must for anyone buying or even contemplating buying a telescope, and if you know someone who's in the situation I was, hopelessly trawling the skies, trust me, it's the perfect gift.
I gave it five out of five, but it's probably worth seven.
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Summary: Invaluable night sky reference
Comment: I read somewhere that all telescopes should come with this guide and once you start using it you'll realise why. As I have mostly a south-westerly view of the sky I like to make the most of what I have so I turn to 'Turn Left...' and follow the easy diagrams and text to pick out the best of the constellation I am interested in.
The book gives you diagrams of what you'll see in the viewfinder as well as the telescope and although it can be a bit confusing to the novice when you first start you soon get the hang of star hopping and be delighted when you discover the gems above.
In fact having used this book quite often I find myself hopping around without it on my favourite sights. For example the other night I found the ring nebula in Lyra by remembering the steps and estimating the distance between the stars in the constellation. Sure enough it popped into view.
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Summary: get someone to buy it for you
Comment: if you are interested in imaging, forget it. there is no info on what the variouse targets can look like when photographed, only how to find them. a companion book on how too image and what to use is recomended.
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Summary: The Novice Stargazer's Bible
Comment: Ask any amateur astronomer what the first book they would recommend to a novice, and the majority will tell you this very book.
Written in a style that is user friendly yet not patronising, it carefully details the highlights of the night sky (by season), giving ratings for each target. All the information on how to find that elusive nebula or galaxy etc is here, along with realistic sketched views through the scope (and finderscope) from a 'normal' viewing site.
Rather than showing each target as a HST or large observatory scope photograph, leading to frustration from the novice, this book is refreshingly honest at what the back garden stargazer will see.
Along with the catalogue of targets (with excellent descriptions of what you are looking at), there is plenty of information on how to set up scopes, what equipment to use and other general advice needed for the novice/amateur astronomer.
I've yet to see a book that covers amateur observations so well.
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Summary: All that the novice needs
Comment: Put simply, if a novice astronomer with ANY size of telescope buys only one book to assist them, then this should be it (or at least the most recent version of it should be). I'm actually a fairly experienced amateur astronomer with an appalling inability to navigate my way round the skies - at least I did have until I had this book bought for me. Broken down into seasonal sections with indications of the right conditions to go looking for particular objects, I can't think of anything that could make the task easier (short of someone actually finding the objects for you!). It is such a good book I can forgive it a few typos and some lapses of English grammar.
My advice - buy this book!
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