September 26, 2005
Stikky Night Skies
Stikky Night Skies is the only astronomy book I've read that has helped my find and make use of constellations. It starts off with a black page covered with white dots representing stars. Every page thereafter is a black page dotted with stars.
With very few words of text on each page, the book teaches you how to find Orion's belt, one of the most easily recognized constellations in the sky. It goes on to teach you how to find the Big Dipper, Venus, and the North star. It shows you an easy way to find north after locating the North star (draw an imaginary line from the point directly overhead to the North Star. That's North).
The book teaches you how to find constellations by repeating the exercizes over and over, changing the orientation of the stars each time. In twenty minutes, I learned enough astronomy to make me feel a little less like an idiot when I look up at the night sky. Link/
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