THE STAR GUIDE: A Unique System for Identifying the Brightest Stars in the Night Sky Revised - CELESTIAL SPORT EDITION (Edition Two) Volume 4 - Rising Stars of Autumn, Continuations

“Beyer's Star Guide is the best work of its kind that I have ever encountered, a delightful blend of practical instruction and the history of astronomy and its legends." - The New York Times
“What most impresses me about this work is the way it makes those remote, scintillating pinpoints of light come alive as astronomical bodies. A refreshingly different introductory sky guide, truly approachable, from which the layperson can learn some real astronomy” – Sky and Telescope
It’s a big universe out there – lots of beautiful stars to see from our spinning Earth. We wrangled the brightest and corralled them in seasonal Sky Screen frames each centered on a featured star surrounded by other stellar gems.
All are realistically bright enough to be seen even from most urban locations on good nights – vistas that challenge and sharpen pattern recognition and orienteering skills. Sky Screens encompass the wide viewing area noticed when we look in a particular direction.
This is much more than just a highly effective field guide, Celestial Sport Edition interlaces a wide-ranging survey of astronomy's practice and development.
As weeks pass recently introduced stars join a familiar stellar matrix, facilitating unaided eye and telescopic observations, while helping with the use of digital sky apps and star atlases. Hundreds of additional remarkable stellar and deep-sky objects are also surveyed.
Sizes and distances of the featured stars are related to scale models, then compared to dimensions of baseball and soccer stadiums, travel distances around Earth, and the Earth - Moon span.
"I didn't give much thought to constellations until an evening course at the Hayden Planetarium given by Steven L. Beyer, author of The Star Guide: A Unique System for Identifying the Brightest Stars in the Sky. (That was our "text" and remains a well-worn treasure!) Over four nights, our little group was ushered into the planetarium, which we had all to ourselves!!! The giant dome was set for either Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall. It was a killer on the neck! But it was wonderful to be gazing up listening to this expert's lecture on that season's night sky, including all sort of legends and lore." - Paula, Reader's Comment, This Week's Amazing Sky, The Old Farmer's Almanac
“A well thought out approach to presenting concepts. The charts are not cluttered with labels and faint stars so that the patterns of bright stars are not interfered with. The Star Guide is a good investment for the library of a beginning stargazer and will certainly become one of the most dog-eared books in such a library.” – Robert A. Garfinkle, Astronomy Magazine
“a concise introduction to astronomy as a science, turn to the current section and take it outside to find the stars.” – Robert J. Chambers, Los Angeles Times
"A fascinating approach, the book introduces over 100 of the brightest stars. After a few weeks of observations, bright stars will serve as reference points to guide the reader." - Science News
A brief introduction to the history of astronomy enhances this practical, exciting guidebook." - Booklist, American Library Association
At last, a guide that tells you how to locate stars in a manner so simple even a city dweller who rarely looks upward can understand it." - Chicago Southtown Economist
A boon to the budding astronomer" Aviation Week & Space Technology
"Truly an outstanding and most useful exposition of the visible sky." - Fred Hess (namesake for Main-belt Asteroid 2844 Hess), Recent Publications in Natural History, American Museum of Natural History