The beginner's guide to the skies : a month-by-month handbook for stargazers and planet watchers / [print]
by Clarence H. Cleminshaw.
- New York : Crowell, (c)1977.
- 152 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
A Start on the Stars -- Exploring the Sky from the Big Dipper -- The Monthly Star Maps -- The Star Chart -- Meanings of Forty Star Names -- Stories of the Constellations -- Positions of the Planets -- The Retrograde Motions of the Planets -- The Apparent Sizes and Magnitudes of the Planets -- A Star's Daily Path Across the Sky -- The Sun's Daily Path Across the Sky -- Sun Time -- Daylight and Twilight -- The Phases of the Moon -- The Moon's Path in the Sky -- The Scale of Space.