72pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, New Edition, Struik Nature, Cape Town, (2006) 2025
ISBN: 9781779890290
An introductory guide to the night skies. This new edition includes clear steps for navigating the skies and tracking the planets, and features updated charts, colour photographs, illustrations and fact boxes.
Suitable for use anywhere in southern Africa.
The late Anthony Fairall was a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cape Town, and Planetarium Astronomer at Iziko Museums of Cape Town. He was an Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society (UK), a Fellow of the University of Cape Town and of the International Planetarium Society, and the author of Starwatching and Cosmology Revealed.
Elizabeth Fairall, Anthony Fairall's daughter, is a qualified Nature Field and Trails Guide and has worked in Big Five game reserves in South Africa, where she has given star talks based on her father's book.