Both novice and advanced skywatchers will value this comprehensive and
easy-to-use guide to the brilliant and ever-changing sights of the
southern sky by night. Readers are introduced to the many and varied
objects in the sky and their movements and changing appearances, as well
as the ancient myths and legends entwined around the groupings of stars.
Featured in this book are two groups of sky charts, designed so that
readers can move easily between them. The 24 skyviews show the
appearance of the whole night sky every two weeks (or at each hour of
sidereal time). The 20 sky charts show particular areas of the night sky
in detail and are accompanied by explanatory text. This new edition also
features: - digitally re-drawn skyviews, sky charts and map of the
surface of the Moon - a table of planet positions up to 2017