THE STAR GUIDE: A Unique System for Identifying the Brightest Stars in the Night Sky Revised CELESTIAL SPORT 8.511 EDITION 3 Volume Four - Rising Stars of Autumn, Continuations

Book Synopsis: 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, the Celestial Sport Edition interlaces a wide-ranging survey of astronomy's practice and development.

As weeks pass recently introduced stars join a newly familiar stellar matrix, 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.

“This is an excellent guide while viewing stars. Very readable star guide. Includes locations, meaning, lore, history, and descriptions of the brightest stars in the night sky. Great to have with you while looking through your scope!” Reviewed in the United States

“A Delightfully Different Observer's Companion, Beyer's work truly places its emphasis on the stars themselves and their seasonal position as opposed to their constellations (although this information is certainly included). It truly is a delightful astronomical companion for the more serious amateur observer, with many interesting bits of lore and science about individual stars that I've never encountered elsewhere.” – Cato, Reviewed in the United States

“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. That was our "text" and remains a well-worn treasure" - Paula, Reader's Comment, This Week's Amazing Sky, The Old Farmer's Almanac

Good informative book. Giving insights and making understandable comparisons make for interesting reading for anyone interested in stars, deep sky objects and other celestial objects in the night sky. Lore, meanings, physical descriptions are all just some of the topics covered. - Frank Schwartz, Reviewed in the United States

“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 magazine

“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” – Robert J. Chambers, Los Angeles Times

“A fascinating approach” - Science News

“A practical, exciting guidebook.” - Booklist, American Library Association

“At last, a guide 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 outstanding” - Fred Hess (namesake for Main-belt Asteroid 2844 Hess), Recent Publications in Natural History, American Museum of Natural History