How to Use an Astronomical Telescope - James Muirden

Amateur astronomy is a wonderful hobby. No other pastime gives people a sense of the scale of the universe and of our place within it as astronomy does. An observer gazing up at the sky on a dark night through a telescope can see objects so far away that their light has travelled for millions of years to reach us. With an amateur telescope, it's possible to see mountains on the Moon, the polar caps of Mars, Jupiter's great red spot, star clusters, remote galaxies, comets and asteroids. Seeing, for example, the great Andromeda galaxy with one's own eye, is far more impressive than seeing a picture; the light from that distant object has crossed the ...  Read the complete review