A Simple Guide to Telescopes, Spotting Scopes & Binoculars

A Simple Guide to Telescopes, Spotting Scopes & Binoculars
Author: Bill Corbett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2003
Genre: Binoculars
ISBN:

A guide to the basics of using a telescope, a spotting scope, and binoculars describes how each one works, how to set up a telescope, adjustments and maintenance, and how to navigate the night sky.

A Simple Guide To Bird Watching

A Simple Guide To Bird Watching
Author: Zahid Ameer
Publisher: Zahid Ameer
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2020-03-14
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

Unleash your inner birder with this beginner-friendly guide! Learn bird identification tips, essential birding gear, and top locations for birdwatching. A Simple Guide To Bird Watching: Everything you need to start birding today!

Simple Guide to Telescopes, Spotting Scopes, and Binoculars

Simple Guide to Telescopes, Spotting Scopes, and Binoculars
Author: Bill Corbett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2008-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781437958294

Whether your interest is in bird watching or gazing at the heavens, this reference guide teaches you the essentials of telescopes, spotting scopes, and binoculars -- from buying and operating to adjustments and maintenance. This handy resource covers: telescopes: how they work and what to look for; telescope accessories; setting up your telescope; telescope adjustment and maintenance; using the telescope; finding your way around the night sky; astrophotography (with both film and digital formats); and binoculars: how they work and what to look for. This guide also includes information you need to successfully view sporting events, landscapes, terrains, and more. Over 100 full-color diagrams, maps, photographs and illustrations.

Astronomy with a Home Telescope

Astronomy with a Home Telescope
Author: Seth Penricke
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-08-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1623156491

See What's Out There To experience the greatest show on Earth, all you have to do is look up. Whether you're stargazing from a bustling city or a small-town backyard, Astronomy with a Home Telescope helps you deepen your appreciation of the diverse, dazzling constellations—with either a home telescope or a pair of binoculars. Ideal for budding astronomers to astronomy buffs, Astronomy with a Home Telescope provides the origin and history behind the celestial bodies and how they came to be in space. Featuring full-color photos, easy-to-follow chapters, and helpful resources, this introductory guide will deepen every astronomy enthusiast's know-how of the night sky. Get set for stargazing, with: Informative profiles of the 50 most common astronomy objects, from the Moon to Mars to Venus, plus fun astronomy pop culture references A double-page spread featuring a clear schedule of solar and lunar eclipses Budget-friendly tips for viewing with the naked eye or binoculars Expert tips for cleaning and maintaining low- or high-powered telescopes Expand your horizons. Astronomy with a Home Telescope is the ideal companion for exploring the cosmos.

Binocular Highlights

Binocular Highlights
Author: Gary Seronik
Publisher: Sky & Telescope
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Constellations
ISBN: 9781931559430

Binocular Highlights is a tour of 96 different celestial sights ? from softly glowing clouds of gas and dust to unusual stars, clumps of stars, and vast star cities (galaxies) ? all visible in binoculars. Each object is plotted on a detailed, easy-to-use star map, and most of these sights can be found even in a light-polluted sky. Also included are four seasonal all-sky charts that help locate each highlight. You don't need fancy or expensive equipment to enjoy the wonders of the night sky. In fact, as even experienced star gazers know, to go beyond the naked-eye sky and delve deep into the universe, all you need are binoculars ? even the ones hanging unused in your closet. If you don't own any, Binocular Highlights explains what to look for when choosing binoculars for star gazing and provides observing tips for users of these portable and versatile mini-telescopes. Sprial-bound with readable paper spine, full color throughout.

Shooter's Bible Guide to Optics

Shooter's Bible Guide to Optics
Author: Thomas McIntyre
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 684
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1620872862

One of the Shooter’s Bible 2018 series Gives advice on using pursuit binoculars, a pursuit rangefinder, a pursuit spotting scope, and more Useful for experts and beginners Whether you are a hunter, guide, target shooter, tactical user, sports spectator, or birder, optics play a key role in adding to and facilitating your profession or sport. To help you figure out which optics are best suited for your needs, and your budget, the Shooter’s Bible Guide to Optics lists every quality sporting optic on the market in 2018. Filled with color photographs, this book features a new products section that lists all new riflescopes, binoculars, rangefinders, and spotting scopes. It also has in-depth features on how to use binoculars, how to mount and sight in a rifle scope, and more.

Touring the Universe through Binoculars

Touring the Universe through Binoculars
Author: Philip S. Harrington
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1990-10-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1620459493

This comprehensive work takes you on a personal tour of the universe using nothing more than a pair of binoculars. More comprehensive than any book currently available, it starts with Earth's nearest neighbor, the moon, and then goes on to explore each planet in the solar system, asteroids, meteors, comets and the sun. Following this, the reader is whisked away into deep space to explore celestial bodies including stars that are known and many sights less familiar. The final chapter includes a detailed atlas of deep-sky objects visible through binoculars. The appendices include guidance on how to buy, care for and maintain astronomical binoculars, tips and hints on using them, and detailed information on several home-made binocular mounts.

How to Use a Computerized Telescope

How to Use a Computerized Telescope
Author: Michael A. Covington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2002-09-26
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780521007900

The first handbook that describes how to start observing the sky with a computerized telescope.

Binocular Stargazing

Binocular Stargazing
Author: Mike D. Reynolds
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2005-10-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0811742520

A guide to viewing stars, the moon, planets, meteors, comets, and aurora through binoculars. Features a foreword by renowned astronomer and writer David Levy. Includes a complete guide to current binocular brands and models and explains what to look for in each season.

A Buyer's and User's Guide to Astronomical Telescopes & Binoculars

A Buyer's and User's Guide to Astronomical Telescopes & Binoculars
Author: James Mullaney
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2007-05-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1846287073

Both beginning/novice amateur astronomers (at the level of Astronomy and Night Sky magazine readers), as well as more advanced amateur astronomers (level of Sky and Telescope) will find this book invaluable and fascinating. It includes detailed up-to-date information on sources, selection and use of virtually every major type, brand and model of such instruments on today’s market. The book also includes details on the latest released telescope lines, e.g. the 10-, 12-, 14- and 16-inch aperture models of the Meade LX-R series. As a former editor for Sky & Telescope, Astronomy, and Star & Sky magazines, the author is the ideal person to write this book.