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by Craig Crossen

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  • ISBN: 0943396360
  • Category: Math & Science
  • Author: Craig Crossen
  • Subcategory: Astronomy & Space Science
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Willmann-Bell; 1st English ed edition (October 1, 1992)
  • Pages: 183 pages
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  • Rating: 4.5
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The binoculars need not be expensive!

Ships from and sold by Willmann-Bell In. .The chances are good that you now have or can borrow a pair of binoculars that will do very nicely.

Thus this book should be useful even to owners of small richest-field telescopes. Binocular Astronomy includes Wil Tirion ' s 10-map The Bright Star Atlas 2000.

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Craig Crossen, a native of the clear skies and cold winter nights of northern Minnesota, has been interested in astronomy since he was thirteen years old. His first telescope was a 21/2-inch refractor, but he soon assembled a 6-inch Newtonian reflector from purchased parts

Craig Crossen, a native of the clear skies and cold winter nights of northern Minnesota, has been interested in astronomy since he was thirteen years old. His first telescope was a 21/2-inch refractor, but he soon assembled a 6-inch Newtonian reflector from purchased parts. However, from the first he was interested not only in deep-sky observing, but also in the history and mythology of the constellations. After attending the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he earned a degree in English Literature, and Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Mr. Crossen returned to the family farm. Binocular Astronomy includes Wil Tirion's 10-map The Bright Star Atlas 2000. This atlas plots practically every star visible with the naked eye plus hundreds of deep-sky objects.

Spri ngerWien NewYork. Craig Crossen Vienna, Austria. Gerald Rhemann Vienna, Austria. The practicalities of observing are covered in so many introductory observing guides (including the author's Binocular Astronomy) that it has not been considered necessary to repeat them here, in what is in effect an observing guide. However, four points about observing that are particularly important for observers using binoculars and RFTs should be kept in mind

Craig Crossen, a native of the clear skies and cold winter nights of northern Minnesota, has been . In the meantime he published his first book, Binocular Astronomy, and wrote a book-length introduction to deep-sky astronomy for the two-volume Night Sky Observer's Guide

Craig Crossen, a native of the clear skies and cold winter nights of northern Minnesota, has been interested in astronomy since he was thirteen years old. His first telescope was a 2½-inch refractor, but he soon assembled a 6-inch Newtonian reflector from purchased parts. In the meantime he published his first book, Binocular Astronomy, and wrote a book-length introduction to deep-sky astronomy for the two-volume Night Sky Observer's Guide.

Craig Crossen is a wonderful writer, one who makes you want to run out with your binos and check out the things he describes

Hardcover excellent condition, (same as picture) minor shelf wear. Text clean, unmarked and tightly bound. Craig Crossen is a wonderful writer, one who makes you want to run out with your binos and check out the things he describes. He also manages to cram an entire mini-course on the structure of the Milky Way into his Binocular Astronomy book, and includes a good serving of the famous E. E. Barnard photographs of Milky Way starfields.

Hardcover excellent condition, (same as picture) minor shelf wear. Text clean, unmarked and tightly bound. (F13)
Reviews about Binocular Astronomy (7):
The Sphinx of Driz
I have a GOTO telescope, and am familiar with the night sky, but I felt I needed to improve my proficiency in knowing where celestial objects are. To do this I purchased Crossen's Binocular Astronomy and a Pocket Sky Atlas. (I already have the app Sky Safari Plus4 and the book Nightwatch.) Binocular Astronomy is a great (though sometimes with mind-numbing detail) introduction of where to look and what one is seeing. And I'm having more fun using my binoculars, too.

I found BINOCULAR ASTRONOMY to be a very comprehensive "survey" of what to see in the night sky and where to look for it. Though most objects are intended for binocular view, I was constantly thinking, as I read it, that there are so many objects I'd like to check out in the telescope, too. And the "background" information on constellations and what the objects are is very good. Only on occasion the author would write something like "just look 2.5 degrees west of star # NN in constellation X" and I'd really be wondering, "But where is THAT star?" Having a Pocket Sky Atlas helped too, as a companion while reading it, though there is an included Bright Star Atlas which is useful.
Nuadabandis
This is a great book to accompany Sky & Telescope's "Binocular Highlights". The Sky and Telescope book has far better visuals and better organization, while this book does a far better job of going into the details about what you're looking at. It also does a good job of going much deeper into the science in astronomy - for example, explaining how the temperature ranges of stars influences the colours you'll be seeing in your binoculars.

It feels like this is the book you browse / read to understand what you'll be looking at, while "Binocular Highlights" is the field guide you'd take out to your back yard.
TheFresh
it's a pleasure to encounter a book that makes you say, "oh, that's how i would have done it!" even if the book can be improved in the details. crossen's guide is remarkably informative, well organized, beautifully illustrated and crisply written. it's also text heavy and printed almost entirely in black and white; the text used throughout, especially in the tables, is unnecessarily small.

crossen's basic theme is that binoculars reveal the milky way, and the milky way is the foundation of all astronomy. the constellations are used as familiar signposts, organized by the four observing seasons; there are detailed observing notes about double stars, star clusters, globular clusters, bright nebula, star clouds and "nearby" galaxies for each constellation, all keyed to the 10 panels of wil tirion's "bright star atlas". these notes will be equally useful for observers with small aperture telescopes.

crossen continually leads the reader's attention to the "big picture", providing charts of the star clusters in puppis, canis major and monoceros; the brightest individual stars within the scorpius-centaurus association; milky way objects in cygnus/cepheus; and full page photographs (the beautiful e.e. barnard photos, in good reproductions) of star clouds, dark clouds and cluster distributions all around the milky way, including a two page panorama of the galaxy from cygnus to centaurus. there are dozens of finder charts, detail photos, and excursions into the earliest mythologies of the sky, which i find utterly superfluous but which many astronomers claim to enjoy.

the book begins at a basic level, explaining binocular construction, how to select binoculars, how to observe and so on, and introducing the constellations of the four seasons in beginner level, stick figure whole sky maps. but the book teaches a tremendous amount, and at the end you reach the ultimate big picture, "the structure of the milky way" and "galaxies and galaxy groups".

i have many reservations, however, among them that the book lacks a diagram of the spiral structure of the milky way and the sun's location within it, or an overlay of measured radial velocities of different star clouds, all of which would make the story of the milky way's structure much easier to understand. even so, no one with curiosity about our galaxy and an interest in binocular astronomy will regret the guidance found in this book.
Nuadazius
This is a must have book for the amateur astronomer. It has in-depth coverage of deep space objects. It lacks detailed charts, however, this is not the authors purpose. It rates a 5 on the strength of its meaty content. If you need a chart, buy one to accompany this book. A star wheel will also be useful.
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This 2nd edition was edited and published without the consent of the original author (Crossen), because of a dispute with the publisher over an unrelated work published elsewhere. According to Crossen, the updates were sloppy added with other parts altered, in any case done without the author's consent.

If you plan to buy this book, get the original first edition.

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