TOURS OF THE NIGHT SKY
Like having an astronomer with you to point out the
constellations and fill you in on the lore of the night sky. This audio program
provides a guided tour of the heavens for each of the four seasons. The tour
is accompanied by an excellent 40 page booklet of the narrative, plus diagrams
of the seasonal skies, and of the individual constellations.
The tour is narrated
by Sherwood Harrington of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Each of the
four 25-minute tours contain clear, nontechnical information and observing hints
to help you find your way in the sky. The narrations contain pauses that are
designed to give you time to look for (and at) what's being described. But unlike
a live teacher, you can turn this one off. The Tour was extensively field tested
both in a planetarium and outdoors, and is optimized for latitudes in North
America. SW 0.7 lbs.
