I think this lavish one volume astronomy encyclopedia needs no more praise than it already have, absolute five stars, best value you can get for its price. So I will give only a personal testimony of it practical utility: I was entertaining friends at home with my old refraction telescope. We saw Venus and the Moon. The sky was dim and polluted, so apparently there was no other object worth seeing, so I decided to give this book a chance. I consulted it sky guide and in less then five minutes was able to localize and show to my friends the magnificently ringed Saturn!
by: Andre R.D. Baptista
A longtime, passive learner of astronomy, I soaked up as much information from the magazines as possible -- until I discovered this! This book covers everything from the quarks and gluons of the subatomic level to the quasars and galaxies! I wish Amazon would allow me to give this book more stars, because it really gets an A+ in my belief. I even bought an extra copy for my teenage sister, then used her copy when I and my fiancee went back to see them in the US a few weeks ago and were out enjoying some starry nights. Now they can say they've seen the Andromeda Galaxy through binoculars! Anyway, by all means get this book; it makes everything space-related or scientific extremely interesting, it's in-depth (including all of the things I learned in Astronomy class in college), and, hopefully, it'll make more people interested in the field and asking the question "What else is out there?" Seriously, BUY THIS BOOK!! You will never regret it.
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