A Primer for Star Gazers Author:Henry M. Neely This very practical primer will enable any novice to find quickly any visible star or constellation. The author has enlivened the standard approach to the subject with clever and original ideas of his own. He provides a compact but complete Star Calendar indicating what an observer will see any evening of the year at one hour after dark. Comb... more »ined with this, an ingenious chart shows how to read the calendar for any other hour of darkness. The book features "sky pictures," nearly a hundred of them, instead of the conventional and difficult star maps given in most books. Thes sky pictures contain landscapes to show the positions of the stars above the horizon and relate them to the familiar earth. The compass direction to face is shown on each landscape so there can be no doubt where to look for the stars you want to find. We all feel like children when we first attempt to pick our way amoung the myriad stars. Here is a book which will carry you quickly and pleasantly through the kindergarten stage in give you a firm foundation in the world's oldest art.« less