This guide to the constellations seeks to help observers find their way around, providing photographs of how the sky really looks in a variety of different conditions. Along with the photographic maps, there is a detailed step-by-step guide to "star-hopping" and other useful techniques.

There are many books on finding your way round the night sky, but the Photo-guide to the Constellations is unique in showing photographs of how the sky really looks under a variety of different seeing conditions, from city outskirts to the almost-perfect skies deep in the countryside. Along with a detailed step-by-step guide to "star hopping" and other useful techniques, these make this an invaluable guide for all newcomers to astronomy.

Intoduction
Finding the Constellations: Introduction. Northern Hemisphere Observers. Southern Hemisphere Observers. Equitorial Observers
The Individual Constellations
The Sky Throughout the Year
Appendices
Index.