Salutations celestial sightseers i'm david fuller with eyes on the sky there is not a lot that i get
asked to necessarily recommend and the things that i have been asked to recommend i have sometimes
looked at and thought i don't want to recommend that to my followers because it doesn't look like
a very good product however i was asked recently to recommend something and i wholeheartedly
leaped at the chance and said yes absolutely i will and that is to recommend to you this
particular book actually i wasn't even recommend - asked to recommend it - just ask to review
it but i would wholeheartedly recommend it as well because this book uh the precursor to it
is what got me started in amateur astronomy and helped me to understand the night sky
understand telescopes eyepieces binoculars how to navigate the night sky how to do get started
in photography which i want to show you i still have my single lens reflex film camera that i
first used for astrophotography - I took horrible photos but nevertheless that was my fault just
because i didn't know what i was doing and didn't have anyone to really help me at the time - and
i still have that original book this is the a revised version of the original one i think they
had done a couple small revisions after it was first published in 91 i bought this sometime in
the mid 90s they'd done a couple short revisions probably for spelling errors and a couple updated
things for eyepieces and things like that for the most part it was still the original version and i
have referenced this book numerous times over the years because it's helped me because there
are still things in there that were useful to know and there were certain things that certainly got
out of date like eyepieces and film photography and whatever else but there's still things in
there that survived to this version now the cool thing about this version which i have looked at
and reviewed myself is they've revised how they've set up the book which i think is really helpful
for anyone who's getting started because and we'll just kind of go through a little bit of
what they've done with the table of contents and how they've organized the book they talk about
naked eye you're observing site getting to know the sky better buying binoculars for astronomy
which are incredibly important i've talked about that a number of times over the years then they do
binocular sky tours so things that you can find and see like some of the stuff that we've done
over the years choosing a telescope choosing eyepieces and filters accessories that are ones
that are essential to have nice to have luxury items using your new telescope how to use it
we've talked about some of that with some of the telescope basics videos that i've done years ago
using your go-to telescope now that's really cool because they talk about meade, celestron and the
orion skywatcher line of products and they give a little bit of an overview of each one of those
and then they talk about observing things like the sun moon eclipses because we've got another
eclipse in the united states coming up in 2024 then they do moon tours which was not even in the
original version so they talk about what kinds of things you should look for and how to observe them
and then the solar system deep sky telescope sky tours much like i have done and that book was
so much of what helped me understand what i needed to know in order to help you be able to
find things in the night sky and i've got a whole bookcase full of books on astronomy but this one
was the one that really got me started with all of that so if you or if someone you know whether
this be something for christmas or birthday or other holiday or just a gift you want to
give someone who's interested in astronomy or if you want it for yourself that's totally okay too
this book i cannot recommend highly enough absolutely the backyard astronomers guide
fourth edition by terence dickinson and alan dyer i wholeheartedly recommend
getting this book because it will be a book that can be referenced for years to come and will
be a useful reference tool that will just not go out of style for certain segments of it um
with respect to observing and um some of the tours and things like that of course equipment
always changes but as far as a reference for some of those other things you're always going
to be able to use this book it's definitely a worthwhile investment in your astronomy observing
and potentially astrophotography want to do that too so give it a look
and think about it seriously uh this guy says thumbs up all the way thanks for watching and
i hope you would if you like this video uh please subscribe uh hit the like also as well and i will
have a lot more content coming up in the weeks and months to come thanks so much clear and dark skies