how to learn astronomy

esumitkumar · 14-12-2007, 11:17 AM

Hi All

As I am very interested to learn about astronomy,watching constellation ,stars etc. Can anybody tell me a basic good nice book which tells how to recognize constellations,how to read star maps charts ,..how to watch stars by telescope

Thanks again and please reply
Sumit

arnold991 · 20-12-2007, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by esumitkumar

Hi All

As I am very interested to learn about astronomy,watching constellation ,stars etc. Can anybody tell me a basic good nice book which tells how to recognize constellations,how to read star maps charts ,..how to watch stars by telescope

Thanks again and please reply
Sumit

OMG nobody has replied here.

Bro, I love astronomy too. Here are few website from where you can start.

1) Buy a decent telescope

http://www.galileotelescope.com/

2) Few Websites

http://beginnersguide.com/astronomy/

http://freeware.intrastar.net/planetarium.htm

http://members.aol.com/kdaly10475/sketch.html

http://www.astrocentral.co.uk/beginners.html

http://members.aol.com/donmfox/begin.html

3) There is one very nice software provided by Galieo Telescope Maker, it's "Perseus", you will get it if you will purchase their telescope or you can purchase it right from it's developer.

One thing, if you are really serious then you will definitely make use of the website mentioned above.

And you can also puchase their telescopes from ebay.in

With best wishes to budding Astronomer

'Arnold'

Note: Don't forget to brush-up your optics knowledge.