Secrets of Stargazing: Skywatching Tips and Tricks. This item is unavailable.Secrets of Stargazing: Skywatching Tips and Tricks

The perfect how-to book for recreational stargazers, this guide is loaded with practical advice to help new observers spend more time exploring the night sky and less time wondering how, when, and what to observe.

A dedication to observing — and luring the faintest dim fuzzies from the sky into her eyepiece — is what makes Becky Ramotowski tick. Her interest in astronomy began at an early age when her parents used to roust her and two younger sisters out of warm beds to watch meteor showers, lunar eclipses, and comets. Since then, she’s never stopped looking at the sky. Recently she made history by spotting the planet Mercury during daylight without optical aid.Becky writes a weekly astronomy column for the San Antonio Express-News and has written for Night Sky magazine. She’s also into astroimaging with film and digital cameras and has had photos published in Sky & Telescope and Night Sky. She does most of her skywatching from her home in New Mexico (where she lives with five telescopes and her husband Shane) but makes an annual pilgrimage to the dark skies of the Texas Star Party.