40 Nights to Knowing the Sky: A Night-by-Night Sky-Watching Primer

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Genre: Astronomy; Popular astronomy; Science; Astronomy (General); Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - General; Science / Astronomy; Astronomy projects; Experiments; Observers' manuals;

Average Review: 4.5 stars

Review: Good but some more careful editing could have saved headache : Well organized, from-the-basics primer BUT I just gave myself a big headache trying to work through an apparent absurdity in the planetary motion chapter (night 10) only to find that the p47 comment that "all the superior planets' synodic periods [save Mars] are somewhere between 11 months and one year" is plain wrong - in fact the appendix shows this, the sentence should have read "between 12 and 13 months". It's difficult enough trying to conceptualize this without this kind of basic editorial slip-up. Hope there aren't too many more howlers.