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Find your way around the night skies in 2003 with these beautiful astronomical charts! Stargazers can use this handy companion guide to track the paths of the planets, locate the constellations and meteor showers. This guide to naked-eye astronomy will help you keep in touch with the movements of the planets around the year with: colourful, monthly sky charts to help you find the constellations and brightest stars - you can follow the waxing and waning moon; 3 maps for each month with the positions for sunset, midnight and before sunrise; sky events you can look out for - meteor showers, eclipses, how Jupiter and Venus appear and disappear as evening and morning planets; you can follow how the planets move, meet and loop in the sky; each planet has a colour for easy recognition - the Almanac is unique in the way that the movements of the planets are illustrated; pictures of the 12 constellations of the Zodiac for locating the moon and planets; and how to campaign against light pollution and reclaim the night sky.

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An ideal gift for the beginner in naked-eye astronomy.

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