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Recently i saw the book on amazon named "The Stars (The definitive visual guide to cosmos) before buying i want take your reviews about this book... If someone had read or heard about it then share your reviews...
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I will say that
Man... That's some icky-tasting stuff!
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Of the apparently authentic reviews, the top critical review jumped out at me:
"Don't buy this book for a stargazer. Most of the constellations are depicted as lying on 3-D jigsaw like pieces of a large plastic globe of the heavens, often shown from the side at a distorted angle. This not what the stargazer sees at night and will make it difficult to identify the constellations in the night sky and match them with the diagrams in the book. In addition, the stars are shown in the diagrams by a dot-like symbols that are hard to distinguish from each other, making the all-important relative magnitude if the stars difficult to discern. This is a coffey table book for those interested in talking about astronomy but not going out at night and doing it."
That's a straight quotation. I did not alter anything in it. Based on that review, I would not purchase that book for myself or other amateur astronomer.
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I hate to admit this but there is plenty of free reading on the internet.
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I worked in a museum gift shop for about six months and looked at all of the
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