Stargazing For Beginners. Introduction To Stargazing With Binoculars. An Easy Way To Learn The Stars, Constellations, And Basic Astronomy.

Once you follow the sky tours in this resource, not one person in a thousand will know as much about the night sky as you do.

And you will learn to easily find some of the most spectacular sights in the night sky, including …

• A hazy patch of stars in the constellation Cancer… once used by ancient sky watchers to forecast oncoming storms, long before Galileo discovered this mysterious cloud was really a cluster of blue-white stars

• The rich star fields towards the center of our galaxy in the constellation Sagitarrius, home to dozens of nebulae and star clusters within easy reach of a beginning star gazer with binoculars

• Two immense spiral galaxies visible to the naked eye (and lovely in binoculars), the light of which you see has spent more than 2 million years crossing the void of intergalactic space (these are the most distant objects you can see without optical aid)

• The “demon star” in the constellation Perseus that eclipses like clockwork every few days (you can easily see this star with the naked eye)

• Two dazzling star clusters in Taurus that look better in a $50 pair of binoculars than in a $10,000 telescope

• A glowing blister of interstellar gas in Orion that’s right now giving birth to hot, silver-blue young stars

• A number of massive ancient red supergiant stars that are inexorably moving to the end of their lives as catastrophic supernova explosions

• And much more…

Stargazing With Binoculars

Stargazing For Beginners. Introduction To Stargazing With Binoculars.

An Easy Way To Learn The Stars, Constellations, And Basic Astronomy.

Stargazing With Binoculars

The world of telescopes, spotting scopes, and binoculars can be quite daunting to the uninitiated. Part buyer’s guide, part instruction manual, this one-of-a-kind reference sorts out all the essential details. Not only will readers receive a foundation in such basics as telescope types, accessories, adjustments, and maintenance, they’ll also discover tested techniques for successful viewing at sporting events, viewing landscapes and terrain, as well as basic star gazing. Finally, star charts and other astronomy references show readers how to navigate around the heavens and photograph specific objects in the night sky.

About the Author
Bill Corbett, author of the Amphoto best-seller A Simple Guide to Digital Photography, is a professional photographer and writer. He lives in Australia.

Review
“Seasons & Days reads like a dream of the natural world, and that is not surprising because Thomas McIntyre is closer to his game than any writer ever. This is the classic collection for hunters.” [Emphasis added.]
–Terry McDonell, Editor, Sports Illustrated

“Tom McIntyre’s The Way of the Hunter reflects the honest spirit of the sportsman in a way few writers have ever accomplished. His understanding and portrayal of the compassionate human predator express the true sentiments of the legitimate outdoorsman, be he a hunter or fisherman. After all, we have come to expect no less from Tom McIntyre.” [Emphasis added.] –Peter Hathaway Capstick

From the Back Cover
Good optics can make or break a hunt just as shooting skills and rifle selection can. And while most hunters often spend more money on optical equipment than they do rifles, they usually know little about “glass.”

Having a proper handle on hunting optics is essential for any hunter and having a good binocular and a riflescope vastly improve a hunter’s focus and range. The Field & Stream Hunting Optics Handbook takes all of the guesswork out of
choosing binoculars, riflescopes, and rangefinders by explaining what kind of performance to look for in optics and how to choose an optic that will fulfill
specific hunting needs.

After thousands of hours spent afield using many good (and some bad) optics, author Thomas McIntyre has gained an understanding of both the level of optical performance hunters require and a historical perspective on the development of the optical devices suited for hunting. He distills all that knowledge in this
easy-to-follow handbook.

“Books like these could open the world of butterflies to much more of the general public…Overall, I like this guide’s arrangement…Binoculars supplies descriptions and, most important, scientific names and range maps on pages that face the photographs, which saves a lot of page turning…Lastly, Butterflies Through Binoculars has a wonderful section on conservation.” — Paul R. Ehrlich, Science
“Bird watching has been popular for many years, but now it’s time for butterfly watching to take the spotlight! With the help of this ‘Butterflies Through Binoculars’ this latest trend in nature study is made understandable through text and photographs.”–Y.E.S. Quarterly
“Prayer answered! Six hundred twenty-five color photographs of butterflies in the wild! Color range maps that show where each species occurs, and when! Descriptions, punctuated with the diagnostic field marks in boldface! Timelines of peak flight abundance! And a quirky author’s voice throughout that communicates Glassberg’s infectious love of his subject, something that makes this more than a field guide: it’s a field companion.”–Bird Watcher’s Digest
“The best way to find out if a nature guide is any good is to test it in the field….Our test of Butterflies through Binoculars: The West out in the laboratory of Big Bend National Park proved that it’s an exceptionally useful field guide. Those who seek to know the kind of butterflies flitting over hill and dale will want to own a copy.”–Gary Clark, Houston Chronicle

Review

“Books like these could open the world of butterflies to much more of the general public…Overall, I like this guide’s arrangement…Binoculars supplies descriptions and, most important, scientific names and range maps on pages that face the photographs, which saves a lot of page turning…Lastly, Butterflies Through Binoculars has a wonderful section on conservation.” — Paul R. Ehrlich, Science
“Bird watching has been popular for many years, but now it’s time for butterfly watching to take the spotlight! With the help of this ‘Butterflies Through Binoculars’ this latest trend in nature study is made understandable through text and photographs.”–Y.E.S. Quarterly
“Prayer answered! Six hundred twenty-five color photographs of butterflies in the wild! Color range maps that show where each species occurs, and when! Descriptions, punctuated with the diagnostic field marks in boldface! Timelines of peak flight abundance! And a quirky author’s voice throughout that communicates Glassberg’s infectious love of his subject, something that makes this more than a field guide: it’s a field companion.”–Bird Watcher’s Digest
“The best way to find out if a nature guide is any good is to test it in the field….Our test of Butterflies through Binoculars: The West out in the laboratory of Big Bend National Park proved that it’s an exceptionally useful field guide. Those who seek to know the kind of butterflies flitting over hill and dale will want to own a copy.”–Gary Clark, Houston Chronicle