“Do not be afraid to become a star-gazer. The human mind can find no higher exercise.” – Garrett P. Serviss
Or perhaps you already know the brighter stars and constellations, but want to learn the sky more intimately.
As you read this page, you’ll discover an astonishing resource that will make it easy to learn the stars and constellations as well as you know the streets of your own home town.
And you won’t just learn a few bright stars. You’ll get a personal tour of hundreds of stars and the major constellations in the northern and near-southern sky, along with an introduction to the brighter galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae visible with the unaided eye or with a simple pair of inexpensive binoculars.
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…
Even if you’ve tried to improve your knowledge of the heavens before, you haven’t tried anything like this. And you haven’t got results like this either.
Because it’s helped countless people learn their way around the night sky… for more than 120 years.
Stargazing For Beginners is based on a classic work of popular astronomy called “Astronomy With An Opera Glass” by Garrett Serviss. First written more than a century ago, Serviss’ book became essential reading for backyard stargazers. Many professional astronomers, as well as accomplished amateurs like Walter Scott Houston first learned the stars with this book. Even modern astronomy experts like Stephen J. O’Meara have a copy of Serviss’s original book in their personal library.
The answer is absolutely… yes! That’s because Serviss’ work takes a casual, friendly approach to learning the night sky that remains appealing across the decades. And since the positions of the stars change slowly, the Serviss’s sky tours are just as accurate today as they were 120 years ago.
Of course, the astonishing advances in astronomy over the past century have dated most of the scientific explanations in the original work. But our modern version of Serviss’s book, Stargazing For Beginners: A Binocular Tour of the Night Sky includes a complete update of the science related to the stars and deep-sky sights described in the sky tours.
That means Stargazing For Beginners gives you the best of both worlds… modern scientific explanation combined with the easy charm and fascinating historical tales of the original work.
Stargazing For Beginners also gives you up-to-date advice on choosing and using the optical instrument of choice for these sky tours: a simple pair of binoculars. Whether you already own a pair, borrow from a friend, or invest in a new set, you’ll discover…
As a stargazer, you’ll discover the greatest reward in observing the night sky lies in your imagination, as you reflect upon the the astonishing forces at work in the cosmos. That’s why we make sure you get a taste of the science behind what you see in the night sky, including…
Plus you’ll learn about two key motions of the Earth, and how and understanding of these motions help you accurately read a simple star map over the course of a season. After just a few nights, you’ll understand how the sky changes from hour to hour and month to month, and you’ll be able to read the sky like a pro.
That’s why we’ve included a free supplementary report called Observing The Moon And Planets With Binoculars to help you discover the most prominent craters, mountains, and dark-grey lava seas. You get a tour of the major surface features of the Moon and a full lunar map to help you easily find the features.
And while binoculars aren’t the best tool for seeing the other planets in our solar system, you’ll also discover how to see the periodic dance of the four largest moons of Jupiter around the giant planet. It’s like seeing a miniature solar system changing night-to-night (even hour-to-hour), right in the field of view of your binoculars.
Stargazing For Beginners: A Binocular Tour of the Night Sky is available as an immediate download as an e-book PDF format so you can start learning your way around the night sky right away. It’s illustrated with more than twenty maps and images to help you find your way around the sky each month of the year. And it’s specially formatted to read on a computer screen, or to print out to read later at your convenience.
That’s why, when you download your copy of Stargazing For Beginners, you also get a special bonus set of star maps you can print out separately to bring out under the stars with your binoculars as you learn the sky. You can even have them laminated, if you like, to keep them from wrinkling in the damp night air.
And to save you the trouble of juggling maps, a book, and binoculars, you also get a free audio version of Stargazing For Beginners. Organized into five MP3 files, you can load each file onto your iPod or favorite MP3 player and follow along in real time while you look at the sky with binoculars or your unaided eye.
Or you can listen to the audio version of the book in your car, on the bus, or while walking to work. It will help you learn the sky that much faster.
You came to this web page because you want to learn the stars and constellations. This is your opportunity. Stargazing For Beginners gives you everything you need to know to identify many dozens of stars in the major constellations of the northern and near-southern hemisphere. With friendly, easy-to-follow tours…
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