Turn Left at Orion  (English, Spiral bound, Consolmagno Guy)

Turn Left At Orion is a book on the wonders and joys of astronomy for hobbyists everywhere.

Summary of the Book

Does your soul sour when you look up at the night sky? Does the thought of the worlds light years away make you want to gaze upward, wondering if there are more horizons beyond them? Then this is the book for you. Guy Consolmagno and Dan Davis point the way to the stars and explain how to navigate the worlds of space through telescopes. They explain how to recognize stellar objects and how to search through the seemingly endless skies for prominent bodies. Sticking to a one-object-per-spread format, the book is intended for users of Dobsonian telescopes, as well as for smaller reflectors and refractors. The authors focus on the southern hemisphere, and explain how to spot astronomical bodies with detailed images and large-format eyepiece views, positioned side-by-side to tutor readers in finding the bodies themselves. Formatted in an easily portable spiral-binding format, the book is a must-have for all astronomy buffs.

About the Authors

Guy J. Consolmagno is an American astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he obtained his doctoral degree at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. A Brother in the Society of Jesus, Consolmagno is also a popular speaker and appeared as a guest of honour at several science fiction conventions, including DucKon in 2000, ConFusion in 2002, Boskone in 2007, and ConClave in 2009. He was awarded the Carl Sagan Medal for outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist to the general public and has also written: Worlds Apart, Brother Astronomer, Adventures of a Vatican Scientist, Intelligent Life in the Universe? Catholic Belief and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life, and God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion.

Dan M. Davis is an American geophysicist, teaching at the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at Stony Brook University, NY. He studies the formation of mountain belts on Earth and based this book on his observations with 2.4” refractor and with 8” and 10” Dobsonians.