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Review: The Sky: A User's Guide

* 31 August 1991 by NIGEL HENBEST
* Magazine issue 1784

Everyone has access to it, it's beautiful to look at and fun to use - yet most people ignore it. This thought has prompted David Levy, a leading amateur astronomer, to write a manual for the thing that interests him most: the sky. The tongue-in-cheek title gives a flavour of The Sky: A User's Guide (Cambridge University Press, pp 295, £16.95). In some quarters, an amateur astronomer means a dedicated devotee in an anorak, mouthing esoteric catchphrases. But not for Levy: he has a love affair with the sky, and he wants everyone to join in.

This joyous enthusiasm sets this book delightfully apart from run-of-the-mill guides to the sky. Levy is comprehensive in the parts of the sky he takes you to: from using your eyes to spot meteors and the phases of the Moon to what an affordable tele-scope will show. But each episode is also a moment