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Science 11 October 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5592, p. 368
DOI: 10.1126/science.1076835
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ASTRONOMY:
The Joy of Stargazing

A review by Robin M. Catchpole

Seeing in the Dark How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril
Timothy Ferris
Simon and Schuster, New York, 2002. 399 pp. $26, C$39.50. ISBN 0-684-86579-3.

In this account for a lay audience, Ferris weaves together his personal experiences in stargazing, an overview of the fairly sophisticated level of current amateur astronomy, and descriptions of some targets to tempt readers into taking up their own studies of the night sky.
The author is at The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London SE 10 9NF, UK. E-mail: catchpol{at}ast.cam.ac.uk

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