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Pleasures of the telescope
Garrett Putman Serviss
Buy your first telescope, then learn to point it well. Serviss guides the amateur through choosing and testing a glass, finding a way among the constellations, and touring from Gemini across the starry heavens. Warm, practical, and full of the joy of looking up. Everything you need to turn a backyard night into a voyage among the stars.
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31 chapters
- 1PLEASURES OF THE TELESCOPE
- 2AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE FOR AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS AND A POPULAR DESCRIPTION OF THE CHIEF WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS FOR GENERAL READERS BY GARRETT P. SERVISS
- 3WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1901
- 4Copyright, 1901, By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
- 5PREFACE
- 6CONTENTS
- 7CHAPTER I
- 8THE SELECTION AND TESTING OF A GLASS
- 9CHAPTER II
- 10IN THE STARRY HEAVENS
- 11CHAPTER III
- 12FROM GEMINI TO LEO AND ROUND ABOUT
- 13CHAPTER IV
- 14VIRGO AND HER NEIGHBORS
- 15CHAPTER V
- 16IN SUMMER STAR-LANDS
- 17CHAPTER VI
- 18FROM LYRA TO ERIDANUS
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