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4188.gif (7206 bytes) ISBN: 0395244188
Title: Find the Constellations
Author: Hans Augusto Rey,H. A. Rey
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: April 1976
Format: Trade Paper

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9981.gif (7979 bytes) ISBN: 0679779981
Title: Constellations of the Northern Skies
Author: Gary Mechler,Mark R. Chartrand
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
Date Published: March 1995
Format: Trade Paper

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ISBN: 0521625130
Title: A Walk through the Heavens: A Guide to Stars & Constellations & Their Legends
Author: Milton D. Heifetz,Wil Tirion
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 1997
Format: Trade Paper

With its unique, simplified maps of the constellations, this guide is the perfect beginner's introduction to the pathways of the sky. Without a telescope or other astronomical equipment, but using the book's instructions on how to measure the sizes and separations between constellations, the reader can find the constellations easily and take a mind's eye journey from one constellation to its neighbors. 50 line diagrams.

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ISBN: 0821220381
Title: The Box of Stars: A Practical Guide to the Mythology of the Night Sky
Author: Catherine Tennant
Publisher: Bulfinch P
Date Published: August 1993
Format: Trade Paper

For everyone who has gazed at the heavens and tried to pick out the constellations, each image on these colorful, oversized cards is pierced with tiny holes along the pattern of the constellation as it appears in the night sky in a magical interactive approach to mapping the cosmos.

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2991.gif (13316 bytes) ISBN: 0806942991
Title:  Constellation Guidebook
Author: Antonin Rukl,Slavos Kadecka (Translator)
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Incorporated
Date Published: May 1998
Format: Trade Cloth

Wannabe astronomers, explore the heavens with this ultimate celestial guidebook! Chock-full of glorious color photographs, easy-to-read charts and detailed maps, it answers every beginner's questions. You'll soon identify major constellations and star groupings and learn visual cues that aid in recognizing the planets. The dazzling pictorial section points out and defines the nature of all the deep space objects in a breathtaking handbook that literally takes you to the stars.

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ISBN: 0521449219
Title: The Cambridge Guide to the Constellations
Author: Michael E. Bakich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: April 1995
Format: Trade Paper

Finally, a book that brings together a variety of information about constellations, including the size and visibility of all 88 constellations, former locations of extinct constellations, the number of visible stars in each constellation and much more. Illustrations.

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2035.gif (12164 bytes) ISBN: 3540762035
Title: Photo-Guide to the Constellations: A Self-Teaching Guide to Finding Your Way around the Heavens
Author: Chris R. Kitchin,C. R. Kitchin
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, Incorporated
Date Published: December 1997
Format: Trade Paper

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ISBN: 0448401983
Title: Seeing Stars: A Book & Poster about the Constellations
Author: Barbara Seiger,Craig Calsbeek (Illustrator)
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group, The
Date Published: October 1993
Format: Trade Paper

Describes how to find various constellations, discusses their significant stars, and presents the myths about them.

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