Celestial Delights: The Best Astronomical Events Through 2010

Celestial Delights

The Best Astronomical Events through 2010 by Francis Reddy and Greg Walz-Chojnacki

In the coming decade, North Americans will be treated to an exciting parade of meteor showers, planetary transits, lunar eclipses, and strong displays of northern lights. Learn to identify what’s happening in the night sky with CELESTIAL DELIGHTS, both an introduction to astronomy and a calendar of upcoming celestial events written for urban and suburban sky-gazers—country skies and expensive telescopes not required. This revised edition predicts and explains numerous naked-eye events with the same lucid writing and easy-to-grasp diagrams that earned the first edition rave reviews. An astronomy guide for the layperson, CELESTIAL DELIGHTS deepens our appreciation of what we see when we gaze at the stars, and inspires us to do so more often.

FRANCIS REDDY is a freelance writer and museum exhibit consultant living in Newberry, South Carolina. He has written or contributed to 23 books on science and natural history for children and adults. GREG WALZ-CHOJNACKI is the author of several dozen articles on astronomy and space exploration, as well as Comet!: The Story Behind Haley’s Comet. He lives in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.