Volume 2 only. Bound in pictorial hardcover and issued without a dust jacket. Some soiling on top and front text block edges, which does not extend to the pages. Binding is tight. Boards and spine are straight. Pages are clean and unmarked. Condition is VG+. The image shown is of the actual item. Free shipping within the US. This is an oversize, heavy book and may require more than the standard buyer-paid postage if shipped outside the US. If the shipping cost exceeds the amount shown initially by ABE, the non-US buyer will be notified and will have the option to accept or reject the purchase before it is finalized.

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Title: The Night Sky: Observer's Guide: Volume 2: Spring & Summer
Publisher: Willmann-Bell
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0943396603
ISBN 13: 9780943396606
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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Amateur astronomers today are exceptionally fortunate to be living in an era when high quality, and very large, optics are so affordable. In the first half of the 20th century the telescope deluxe for the amateur was the 6-inch refractor. However, such telescopes were so expensive that very few amateurs could afford them: the majority of stargazers had to content themselves with instruments in the 60mm range. Consequently, most observing guides published during that time emphasized double and multiple stars, with honorable mention for variable stars and planetary nebulae, objects which do well in long focal length refractors. Webb's 1858 Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes and Olcott's 1936 Field Book of the Skies were not superceded for so many decades simply because the average amateur instrument did not dramatically improve during the century after Webb. By the 1950s the mass-produced or homemade 6-inch parabolic mirror brought medium-sized optics into the price range of the ave

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