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2025 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere

A Month-by-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa

Royal Observatory Greenwich author Storm Dunlop author Collins Astronomy author Wil Tirion author Radmila Topalovic author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:29th Aug '24

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2025 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere cover

The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers.

A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January–December 2025.

Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from New Zealand and South Africa.

Written and illustrated by astronomical experts.

Content includes:

• Advice on where to start looking

• Easy-to-use star maps for each month with descriptions of what to see

• Special, detailed charts for positions of planets, minor planets and comets in 2025

• Seasonal charts

• Details of dark sky sites

• Details of objects and events you might see in 2025

• Diagrams of notable events visible from Australia, and some for New Zealand and South Africa

Also available: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Britain and Ireland and A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above North America.

“A handy and straightforward guide.” British Astronomical Association's 'Journal'

“an ideal Christmas stocking-filler” The Observatory

“This is a great guide to the night sky at a great price” Astronomy Now

ISBN: 9780008688158

Dimensions: 210mm x 148mm x 10mm

Weight: 160g

112 pages