42 Degrees North Latitude Europe

Philip's Planisphere: Latitude 42° Northward For utilize in the USA, Southern Europe and Northern Japan

Handbook / Manual

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About this book

Invaluable for both beginners and advanced observers, Philip's Planisphere (Latitude 42° North) is an essential travel accessory for astronomy enthusiasts visiting the Usa, Southern Europe or Northern Nippon, for example. To apply this practical hr-by-hour tracker of the stars and constellations, you merely turn the oval panel to the required date and time to reveal the whole sky visible from your location. The map, by the well-known celestial cartographer Wil Tirion, shows stars down to magnitude v, plus several deep-sky objects, such as the Pleiades, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and the Orion Nebula (M42). Because the planets motility round the Sun, their positions in the sky are constantly changing and they cannot exist marked permanently on the map; nevertheless, the back of the planisphere has tables giving the positions of Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn for every month until 2020.

The planisphere is supplied in a total-color wallet that contains illustrated pace-by-step instructions for how to employ the planisphere, how to locate planets, and how to piece of work out the time of sunrise or dusk for whatsoever day of the year. It explains all the details that tin can exist seen on the map - the magnitudes of stars, the ecliptic and the angelic coordinates. In addition, the section 'Exploring the skies, season by season' introduces the novice astronomer to the principal celestial objects visible at unlike times of the year. Major constellations are used as signposts to navigate the night sky, locating hard-to-discover stars and some fascinating deep-sky objects. The movement of the stars is as well explained.

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Handbook / Manual

By: Wil Tirion(Illustrator)

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