Stargazing Year A Backyard Astronomer's Journey Through the Seasons of the Night Sky

A quarter-century after giving up his first telescope, Charles Laird Calia lay down one evening on his front lawn with his two young daughters, looked up at the stars, and rediscovered a childhood passion. Part primer on the science and history of astronomical observation, part love poem to the night sky, this is an amateur astronomer's account of a year spent observing the cosmos in his New England back yard.Available only in Nonfiction 4.Calia, Charles Laird is the author of 'Stargazing Year A Backyard Astronomer's Journey Through the Seasons of the Night Sky', published 0018 under ISBN 9780786281107 and ISBN 0786281103.